Emre Busse
Emre Busse is an art historian and filmmaker specializing in contemporary sexualities and trans-cultural pornography studies. He recently completed his Ph.D. at the Art History faculty of the Freie University of Berlin, supported by a 3-year doctoral fellowship from the Hans-Böckler-Stiftung. He holds an M.A. from the Fine Arts Faculty of Bauhaus University, Weimar (2015).
In 2017, he co-curated the exhibition "Soft g - queer forms migrate" at Schwules Museum Berlin, a significant LGBTQ+ History Museum in Berlin.
Emre's recent film work, the Godasses Trilogy, has been featured at international film festivals and institutions, including the Institute of Contemporary Arts London, the Porn Film Festival San Francisco, and the Brussels Independent Short Film Festival.
He is a member of the Masculinity, Sex, and Popular Culture Network, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) in the United Kingdom. His monograph “Ethnicity as Desire: Gay Pornographic Film between Europe and the S.W.A.N.A. Regions” will be published in early 2024.
What desire means to me:
We wouldn’t call it as desire if we actually could define it.
Les Godasses
Photography by Rafal Gaweda