LADA x Fringe! Archiving Erotics

Biographies

Topher Campbell is an artist, filmmaker and writer who has created a range of works in film, exhibitions and archive. His work explores sexuality, masculinity, afro-futurism and the city. Campbell is and a past recipient of the Jerwood Directors Award (2005) and Pink News Broadcast of the Year Award 2022. In 2000, he co-founded rukus! Federation a Black LGBTQ Arts collective with the artist Ajamu X and curated the Making A rukus! exhibition for Somerset House 2024.

Stefan Dickers is the Special Collections and Archives Manager at Bishopsgate Institute and has been responsible for the development of the Institute’s collections on the history of London, protest and activism. He is also the founder of the UK Fetish Archive and led the Institute to become possibly the largest collection of LGBTQ+ archives, books and periodicals in the UK. Stefan qualified as an archivist in 2001 and started at Bishopsgate in 2005.  Previous to this, he worked in the archives of the London School of Economics and Senate House Library.

Dominic Johnson is a writer and curator, and Professor in the School of Arts at QMUL. He is the author or editor of many books including Unlimited Action: The Performance of Extremity in the 1970s (2019) and Pleading in the Blood: The Art and Performances of Ron Athey (2013). Dominic is the curator of the exhibition Hamad Butt: Apprehensions at the Irish Museum of Modern Art (Dublin) and at the Whitechapel Gallery since June 2025.

Anju M Kasturiraj is a queer London-based artist of South Indian heritage. Anju uses video, live art, and experimental essays as sites for ritual performance. Their work extracts from a personal visual archive, South Indian traditions, and Catholic imagery, used to trace the infiltration of the structural into intimate encounters, and to articulate the indeterminacy of collective memory and the bodily archive. Anju is doing a practice-based PhD on rituals and endurance performance at the Royal College of Art, supported by the London Arts and Humanities Partnership. They have shown work at: galleries including UglyDuck, Beaconsfield, and Lethaby; Greenwich Docklands International Festival; Royal Museums Greenwich; the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. They were a 2024 resident at the Derek Jarman Lab, where they completed their film apathy (2024). Recent publications include contributions to the book Transect of Coexistence (2024) and to Still Point Journal (2024).