IMMA Talks welcomes guest curator Dominic Johnson (Professor of Performance and Visual Culture at Queen Mary University of London) to present an in-gallery talk on a selection of works that comprise the recently acclaimed retrospective exhibition, Hamad Butt: Apprehensions. This talk offers an intimate look at some of Hamad Butt’s (1962-1994) most daring and poignant sculptures, installations, and works on paper, that respond to themes of identity, desire, mortality, and the HIV/AIDS crisis.
Reflecting on Butt’s engagements with scientific knowledge, the supernatural and queer diasporic art, Johnson will explore the ways Butt’s pioneering works forged a new ‘hazardism’ in art that continues to resist singular categorisation.
This talk offers rare insights into Butt’s life and work, by lead researcher and curator Dominic Johnson and draws on his extensive research on modern and contemporary art, and artists whose work is marginalised in institutional and critical histories of visual art and performance.
