Madrid workshop video files

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If you weren’t able to make it to our workshop in Madrid in June 2024 – ‘Queer Memory and the Politics of the Archive’ – then we have good news. Our amazing hosts, Museo Reina Sofia, recorded the whole thing and have now made the video files available on their website. It’s in five chunks, matching the structure of the event; you can find the whole thing here.

If you would like to directly access one of the panel conversations, then they were focused on (1) audiovisual archives, (2) militant archives, (3) dispersed, migrant, virtual archives, (4) queer traces in other archives, and (5) collective memory and archival technologies. The discussions were largely in Spanish, but the Museo’s video tool allows the auto-generation of English subtitles.

Sloganeering

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At the end of the two day PERCOL workshop ‘Difficult Objects/Difficult Heritage’ – inspired by E-J Scott’s deft way with a slogan – the assembled group of attendees were invited to write their own slogans. These were supposed to address issues raised by the event (what do we do with challenging aspects of queer heritage?), in ten words or fewer. We thought you might like to see some of the results…

PERCOL Talks Episode 2!

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The second episode of the PERCOL Talks podcast is now live! The episode features our own Sandro Weilenmann in conversation with Richard Sandell, Professor of Museum Studies at the University of Leicester. The episode can be found here.

NEMO guidelines launched!

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NEMO (the Network of European Museum Organisations) has just launched ‘LGBTQIA+ inclusion in European museums – An incomplete guideline.’ This fantastic document aims “to support institutions in becoming more inclusive spaces for everyone.” Eliza Steinbock and Sandro Weilenmann from the Perverse Collections project were amongst the array of people consulted in the writing of the guideline.

The NEMO document can be read and downloaded for free here.

‘Blooming Archive’ pictures

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Have you been able to make it along to the ‘Blooming Archive’ exhibition curated by Sandro Weilenmann, which is currently on show on the 3rd floor of OBA in Amsterdam? Whether you have or not, here are some beautiful install pics, courtesy of Fabian Landewee.

‘Blooming Archive’ catalogue

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The PERCOL exhibition ‘Blooming Archive’ opened on the 3rd floor of OBA in Amsterdam on Thursday 3 October. The event was attended by around 150 people. The exhibition features work by seven different artists, and is open to the public (free entry!) until 3 November.

There is an accompanying catalogue to go with the exhibition, which can be picked up at OBA. A digital copy can be found here.

PERCOL X EUROPAEUM

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Europaeum is a network of eighteen leading European universities. Every summer, the network holds a summer school, which is hosted by one of the partners in the consortium. This year, the host is the University of St Andrews, and the theme of the event is ‘Marginalised Histories: Cultural Heritage and Archives’.

Taking place from 28-30 August 2024, PERCOL’s Glyn Davis is one of the organisers of the summer school, and will be delivering the opening keynote talk, ‘Cold Blooded Old Times: On the Chill of the Archive’. Other contributors to the summer school include some PERCOL friends and collaborators: Michael Nebeling Petersen, who is working on the cultural history of AIDS in Denmark; Gracia Trujillo, of Madrid Complutense University; and Tobias de Fonss Wung-Sung, of Copenhagen University (who made an amazing contribution to our Hands Off conference back in February).

We’ll be posting some images on Instagram!

PERCOL Talks launches

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Our podcast series launches today! PERCOL Talks is being hosted on Podbean. The first episode of PERCOL Talks is an interview conducted by Sandro Weilenmann with our board member Susan Stryker (pictured right). You can find it here. The podcast is being hosted by Podbean; it will appear on iTunes in the near future. Please feel free to like and share!

Some suggested reading to go with the podcast episode: McKenzie Wark (ed.), When Monsters Speak: A Susan Stryker Reader, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2024.

PERCOL at GAVA!

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We’re delighted to announce that the ‘Perverse Collections’ project team (most of us, anyway) will be presenting at the 2nd Global Audiovisual Archiving Conference in Toronto in July 2024.

As the Archive/Counterarchive team put it, “The biennial Global Audiovisual Archiving Conference is an opportunity for scholars, archivists, artists, curators, filmmakers, students, and film enthusiasts from across the world to gather and explore contemporary professional, artistic, and socio-political issues affecting audiovisual heritage today. The aim of the conference is to broaden the knowledge and connections within the global archival community, leading to new insights into the material and cultural resonances of archival approaches to sound and moving image in different parts of the world.”

The PERCOL panel has the title “Forging Connections: On the Mobility and Malleability of Europe’s LGBTQ+ Archives”. We’ll report back after the event itself!

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