History of Art Research Seminar Series | Dr Theo Gordon

Thu Jan 15 2026 at 05:15 pm to 06:30 pm UTC+00:00

Hunter Lecture Theatre | Edinburgh

Edinburgh College of Art
Publisher/HostEdinburgh College of Art
History of Art Research Seminar Series | Dr Theo Gordon
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No Bed Peace: Intimacy and Anachrony in Dance and Performance during the British AIDS crisis
About this Event

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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Hunter Lecture Theatre, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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