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Friday, November 17th at 3:30pm</span>,</b> we are excited to host the latest in our work-in-progress speaker series--<b style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Greg Youmans! </b></div>
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<div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr xdj266r x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs"><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""> </span><b class=""><font size="4" class="">Bay Area Surrealism: Steve Arnold, the Cockettes, and Salvador Dalí</font></b></div>
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<div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr xdj266r x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs"><b class="">Abstract</b>: The talk explores the influences upon and the impact of the work of artist and filmmaker Steven Arnold, who was a major figure in the queer, artistic, and countercultural milieux
of the San Francisco Bay Area in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Arnold helped launch the midnight movie phenomenon in the U.S. and gave the famous hippie-drag troupe the Cockettes their first stage. As a filmmaker, his biggest success was the 1971 psychedelic
art-porn feature Luminous Procuress, which featured the Cockettes, screened at the Cannes Film Festival, and had a two-week run at the Whitney Museum in New York, where he met Salvador Dalí and became his protegé. Arnold’s influences were eclectic, though
surrealism was central to his art practice, philosophy, and way of life almost from childhood. In this presentation, I will use Arnold as an opportunity to trace the history and influence of surrealism on queer art and filmmaking in the Bay Area, and I will
attend as well to other key influences on his work, in particular the 1960s films of Jack Smith and Federico Fellini, and the fashion designs and performance art of his frequent collaborator, Kaisik Wong.</div>
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<div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr xtlvy1s x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs"><b class="">Bio</b>: Greg Youmans is associate professor of English and film studies at Western Washington University. His essays have appeared in Camera Obscura, Millennium Film Journal, and the Oxford
Handbook of Queer Cinema among other publications. His first book was a study of the 1977 documentary Word Is Out: Stories of Some of Our Lives (dir. Mariposa Film Group), and he is currently at work on a second book project tentatively entitled “Something
New Under the Sun: Bay Area Queer Filmmaking Across the 1970s.”</div>
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