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My Evidence: Creating LGBTQI+ Art and Archives
October 3 – October 4
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Conference Programme
Day 1: October 3, 2024
Location: IHLIA LGBT Heritage, Forum Lecture Hall located in the Amsterdam Public Library, 6th Floor, 143 Oosterdokskade, 1011 DL Amsterdam
13:00 – 13:30
Registration / Badge Café (organised by Ben Walters)
13:30 – 13:45
Introduction by Eliza Steinbock (Maastricht University)
13:45 – 14:45
Keynote lecture by Susan Stryker (Stanford University & Director of the TEN:TACLES Initiative of the Mellon Foundation): At the Crossroads of Turk and Taylor: Where Trans Pasts and Just Futures Intersect
14:45 – 15:00
Coffee & Tea Break
15:00 – 15:25
Welcome address by Thea Sibbel, Dewi Vrenegoor and Wilfred van Buuren (IHLIA): Reconfiguring the Archive Over and Over Again
15:30 – 17:00
Roundtable A: Ar(t)chives and the Politics of Visualisation, Aestheticization, and Curation.
Which new perspectives can artistic engagement with the record generate, and is the impact different when such artworks move from archival to more mainstream exhibition spaces?
Moderator: Jennifer Shearman (Queer Britain)
- Pablo Lerma (Willem de Kooning Academy – Hogeschool Rotterdam)
It Doesn’t Stop Images at Images. An artistic project on archival practices through embodied knowledge and timelines around queer narratives on joy, affection and community - Marina Incertis (EdredonLab, Cultural Center of Cigarreras, Alicante)
Un mapa de desvios: precarious environments erasing memory, and how to recover it. - Benny Nemer (KASK & Conservatorium, Ghent)
Several Favourable Bodies: Artistic gestures that facilitate queer bonds of kinship - Mathew Wayne Parkin (Newcastle University)
Fire spread through gaps or voids in construction: video making in the imagined archive - Noor Bhangu (Visiting Curator, Nasjonalmuseet Norway)
Deviant Ornaments: Curating Queer Islamic Art - Elliot Gibbons (University College London)
Did we find Danny? Art, Archives and Community
17:15 – 18.15
Blooming Archive Exhibition Opening & Reception – Introduction by Sandro Weilenmann (Maastricht University) followed by drinks.
Location:IHLIA LGBT Heritage Square, 3rd floor, Amsterdam Public Library (OBA) Oosterdok.
Day 2: October 4, 2024
Location: IHLIA LGBT Heritage, Forum Lecture Hall located in the Amsterdam Public Library, 6th Floor, 143 Oosterdokskade, 1011 DL Amsterdam
9:30 – 11:00
Roundtable B: Ethical Considerations When Archives Work With Artists, And Artists Work With Archives
What should be included in a care rider detailing conditions when archives work with artists?
Moderator: Jyoti Mistry (University of Gothenburg)
- Laura Horak (Carleton University)
Ethical Metadata - Sarah-Joy Ford (artist and independent scholar) and Alexis Bard Johnson (ONE Archives at the USC Libraries)
Looking for Lesbians - James Bell (University of Edinburgh)
Archiving histories of queer art and organising in, against, and beyond Edinburgh College of Art - Orla Egan (Cork LGBT Archive) Archive as Artistic Creative Playgrounds
11:00 – 11:15
Coffee & Tea Break
11:15 – 12:45
Roundtable C: The Archives as a Place of Unbelonging
Who continues to be marginalized in LGBTQI+ archives and what sort of evidence needs to be produced to sustain their cultural heritage?
Moderator: Renaud Chantraine (CY Cergy, CNRS, Ministère de la Culture)
- Slava Greenberg (University of Amsterdam)
Evidence of Madness in the Trans Archive: From Access Fatigue to Access Intimacy - Kata Kyrola (University College London) and Anna Linder (The Swedish Archive for Queer Moving Images)
Imagine Sápmi – how to build a queer Sámi moving image archive? - K.J. Rawson (Northeastern University // Digital Transgender Archive // Homosaurus) Introducing the Digital Transgender Archive and the Homosaurus
- Linda Chernis (GALA Queer Archive, Johannesburg)
The Missing “I” in LGBTQI Archives - Tomka Weiß (Giegold/Weiß, ‘Trans*cestors’ in Schwules Museum Berlin) 4T – The Trans Body Rights Ar/ctivist Archive and the Need for a TIN Archive
- Jamie Chih-Yun Yao (University of Amsterdam)
Reframing Online Resources: Otherness Archive’s Approach
12:45 – 13:30
Lunch break
13:30 – 15:00
Roundtable D: Creating Material And (Dis)Identifying Bodies In Circulation
How can new strategies of display, narrativization, and categorization change cultural heritage practices and policies at large?
Moderator: Josefine Hetterich (Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt)
- Siân A. Williams (Manchester Metropolitan University)
Everything’s gay - Thomas R. Hilder (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
LGBTQ+ Choirs, Archives, Storytelling - Márton Tóth (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest)
“Monsieur Madame” Revisited: Narratives of Anton Prinner - K.A. Harper (Goldsmiths University of London, National Maritime Museum, Queer History Club affiliate)
‘Attitudes’: An/archive and anti-queer media rhetoric in the UK - Nour Outojane (His/Her/Their Stories, Belgium)
From Searching to Seizing: Spaces for Trans* Survival, Belonging and History-Making - Nico Miskow Friborg (University of Stavanger) and Oda-Kange Midtvåge Diallo (independent scholar)
Counter-archiving in trans, queer, QTIBIPOC and black organising
15:00 – 15:15
Coffee & Tea Break
15:15 – 16:45
Roundtable E: Status of ‘evidence’ in various field studies and institutional contexts
What types of evidence do we need to produce to safeguard trans and queer lives?
Moderator: Kate Davison (University of Edinburgh)
- Jonah I. Garde (University of British Colombia)
Refusing Evidence, or Thinking Trans Histories in the Absence of Reliable Traces - Gianmaria Colpani (Utrecht University)
The Passion of Remembrance: Art as Supplementary Archive - Wigbertson Julian Isenia (University of Amsterdam)
I Am Gonna Take This To Court! On Evidence Improperly Gathered - Siska Humlesjö (University of Gothenburg)
Finding Marginalized Voices? Subject categorization, database search, and ghostliness in the archives - João Florencio (Linköping University)
Sexing the Archive - Keava McMillan (Lavender Menace Archive)
Eternally homosexual? Evidence and interpretation in queer Scottish community archives
16:45 – 17:30
Closing Drinks