Queer and Now in South Africa and Queer in the V&A

Tessa Lewin - Queer and Now in South Africa.
Tessa’s research focuses on Queer Visual Activism in contemporary South Africa. This presentation will contextualise her study, through a brief look at key selected images from the contemporary South African visual landscape. She will then focus on her fieldwork findings from late 2015, and some of the themes emerging from this work.

Matt Smith - Queer in the V&A
Following his PhD exploring how craft can be used to explore marginalised identities in cultural organisations, Matt spent six months as Artist in Residence at the Victoria and Albert Museum. This talk will explore what he got up to, the difficulty in finding butch figurines and why the museum seems to find it so hard to discuss LGBT identities.

The Arts and Humanities Research Forum (AHRF) is a research forum for staff and students in the University’s Arts and Humanities College generated by the Doctoral College and the Centre for Research and Development. The AHRF is a fortnightly event series open to all research students and staff as well as open to the public as audience members. The forum provides a regular facilitative context in which researchers can trial or rehearse research designs, argue for and justify appropriate methodological approaches and frameworks, and debate theory/practice relationships in their studies. Please contact J.lane2@Brighton.ac.uk for further details, or if you’d like the opportunity to talk at a future forum.