Padraig Robinson

Berlin/Germany — Visual Arts, Solitude fellow 2017–2019

Padraig Robinson (Ireland 1985) is an artist writing books and screenplays, inquiring into pre-queer history as well as the economy of the image; not as novelty subjects in themselves, but as forms of “knowing” that challenge histories of assumed liberation.

Akademie Schloss Solitude Profile

Articles with and by Padraig Robinson:

Video stream from May 20 – June 10, 2020

An Empirical Queer Theory

by Padraig Robinson

Christina Myers Hepburn, a Los Angeles-based practitioner of touch therapy is in the limelight of Padraig Robinson’s film An Empirical Queer Theory (2019). The work discusses touch and physical tenderness as basic human needs, and at the same time challenges normative rules of society.