Masquerades of Research + Q&A
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Masquerades of Research + Q&A

Sat
20
Sat 20 Apr 2:00 PM

Platform Arts (Courthouse)
Wheelchair
General Admission
Unclassified 15+
93 Mins
April
Sat 20 Apr

Presented in partnership with Platform Arts. Two short films by Irish artist and filmmaker Padraig Robinson explore the impact of the controversial research of pre-queer sociologist Laud Humphreys.

Part I begins in St. Louis in 1967 to give poetic insight into how the civil and social rights movement created the backdrop for his still controversial PhD, Tearoom Trade: Impersonal Sex in Public Places.

Part II begins tensely in Los Angeles in 1975, where Humphreys is on the cusp of republishing Tearoom Trade in the radically different post-Stonewall and post-Watergate USA.

After the films Padraig Robinson will join us for a Q&A to discuss the relevance one of sociology’s most radical studies and how it relates to contemporary discussions of intimacy, social presentation, surveillance and data control.  
April
Sat 20 Apr

Platform Arts (Courthouse)

Cnr Little Malop Street and Gheringhap Street Geelong, Victoria, 3220

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