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Professor Dominic Johnson, BA (Warw) MA PhD (Lon) FHEA

Dominic

Professor of Performance and Visual Culture

Email: d.f.johnson@qmul.ac.uk

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My research focuses on modern and contemporary art and performance after 1960. Through writing and curating, I primarily research artists whose work has tended to be marginalised or stigmatised in institutional and critical histories of visual art and performance. 

I have published 4 authored books and 6 edited books. I have also published over 35 articles and book chapters on visual artists including, most recently: Reza Abdoh, Skip Arnold, Neil Bartlett, Anne Bean, Hamad Butt, James Lee Byars, Genesis P-Orridge, Charles Ray, and others. My writing has explored visual art and performance in relation to such varied themes and topics as fear, extremity and endurance, objecthood, abbreviated duration, censorship, war, HIV/AIDS, intimacy, and pornography.

I have taken up international fellowships including: Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Roski School of Art and Design at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles (January to May 2024); Global Visiting Scholar in the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, New York University (NYU), New York (January to April 2016); and Scholar in Residence and AHRC Honorary Visiting Fellow in the Department of English and QueerLab Research Center, University of California Riverside (January to March 2015).

From 2005 until 2012, I presented my own performances around the world in festivals, galleries, museums, theatres and clubs, a commune, a dungeon and a desert.

I served as Head of the Department of Drama from 2020 to 2023.

I am a founder member of the Sexual Cultures Research Group in the School of English and Drama, which actively fosters and develops cross-disciplinary conversations about sexuality, gender, identity, and both intimate and public sexual cultures.

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