History of Art Research Seminar Series | Dr Theo Gordon

Join History of Art (HoA) for the next talk in the Research Seminar Series (RSS) chaired by Dr Maryam Ohadi-Hamadani.

This lecture will be hybrid. Please book your ticket for attendance in person or online.

This talk examines a selection of dance and performance works, and their moving image ‘documentations’, that centre on sexual intimacy and political violence in the time of HIV/AIDS in Britain. These include pieces by Michael Clark, Leigh Bowery, Neil Bartlett and Lloyd Newson.

About the speaker

Theo Gordon is a postdoctoral fellow at the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art in 2025–26, where he is completing a book on art and HIV/AIDS in the UK, a project begun during a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship in History of Art at the University of York in 2022–25.

Image: Tom Walker, You're saying exactly how I feel (2017), showing Derek Jarman's installation for National Review of Live Art, Third Eye Centre, Glasgow, 1989. Photo: Neil Scott.

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