Brighton and Sussex Sexualities Network
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The Brighton and Sussex Sexualities Network (BSSN) is an inter-university research network aimed at supporting research and researchers who work on issues of human sexuality within the Universities of Brighton and Sussex and the wider Sussex area.Invocations and Evocations: Queer and Surreal
Friday 26 March–Monday 29 March 2010. The Tate
Surrealism began as a brotherhood experimenting with trance states, games of chance and research into the world of the marvellous. One of their games was the act of invocation – calling forth forgotten or buried figures: famous or notorious. Although the surrealists’ social politics initially included a virulent strain of homophobia, the thread woven by André Breton and his peers can be followed into the labyrinth of queer practice throughout the twentieth century and beyond.
This special series of screenings and discussions will provide a form of invocation where the tangled threads of the surrealist project and those of queer experimental cinema, exemplified by Kenneth Anger, Maya Deren, Derek Jarman and many others, will be reflected from the projector’s blinding beam.
In collaboration with The Centre for the Study of Surrealism and its Legacies, University of Manchester, with support from the Annual Fund and Queer@King's Research Centre, King's College London.
Held in conjunction with the London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival.
Further information at http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/eventseducation/film/invocationsandevocationsqueerandsurreal.htm
