Richard Squires

My practice-based PhD research uses memoir and historical analysis to interrogate mainstream media narratives of crimes that occurred in the 1980s in North America involving gay male perpetrators, and their relationship to the homophobic imaginary. Utilising essayistic subjectivity, interview and montage, the research considers the counterintuitive, oppositional appeal of images of gay male depravity.

My broader research interests include animated representations of otherness; masculinity and hysteria; LGBTQ+ history and criminality. My work has frequently employed appropriation, provocation and the juxtaposition of diverse visual components. My commitment to the dissemination of research via the moving image derives from my interest in radical montage with its potential to articulate divergent, overlapping ideas; images and sound forming new relationships and creating meaning in complex, hybrid ways.