Gavin Butt works as a transdisciplinary scholar across the intersecting areas of performance studies, queer studies, visual culture, and popular music. He works on experimental art and performance and their relation to popular cultural forms; queer club performance; post-punk culture; and live art, theatre and performance art. Before taking up the Attenborough Chair at Sussex in September 2016, he was Professor of Visual Cultures and Performance at Goldsmiths, University of London.