The Perverse Collections team are working to get their research out into the world. Here are some of the way in which that has been done!

Talks and conference papers

Strategies for Tactical Archives conference, Het Nieuwe Instituut (Rotterdam, NL) October 2023. Eliza Steinbock, ‘Seeking Affective Justice in Urgent Archives’, a response to talks delivered by Sarah Schulman and David Garcia.

Global Audio-Visual Archiving conference, Toronto, July 2024. Panel title: ‘Forging Connections: On the Mobility and Malleability of Europe’s LGBTQ+ Archives.’ Contributions: Eliza Steinbock, ‘Artistic Participation in Archives: Promoting and Propagating Trans Media and Film Cultures’; Glyn Davis, ‘On the Stewardship of Queer and Trans Collections’; Sandro Weilenmann, ‘Cool Raves: Archiving and Reactivating Queer and Trans Dance Culture in Contemporary Art.’

EUROPAEUM conference, University of St Andrews, August 2024: keynote talk by Glyn Davis, ‘Cold Blooded Old Times: On the Chill of the Archive’.

The Second International Trans Studies Conference (Evanston, IL, September 2024): Eliza Steinbock was chair and respondent on a panel entitled ‘Archives and the Epistemicide of Trans* Social Worlds.’

Eliza Steinbock, ‘Ghosts in My Throat’, Derek Jarman Annual Lecture for Queer@King’s (King’s College London, November 2024).

Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference, Chicago, April 2025. Panel title: ‘Out of the Void: Queer and Trans Archival (Re)Turns in Contemporary Film and Video.’ Contributions: Eliza Steinbock, ‘A Body Too Many: Documentary Re-enactment and Archival Vivification in Trans Cinematic Experiments’; Glyn Davis, ‘Spitting Blood: Towards a Queer Barbaric Poetics’; Juan A. Suarez, ‘The Queer Ordinary and the Silences of the Archive in Recent Spanish Film and Video’; Sandro Weilenmann, ‘Close Quarters: Archival Reimaginations in Contemporary Video Art.’

Writing

Juan A. Suarez, ‘Queer Memory and the Brown Commons’, in Juan Francisco Belmonte and Estibaliz Encarnacion (eds), Unbound Queer Time in Literature, Cinema, and Video (London: Routledge, 2024), pp. 112-131. Available Open Access here.

Sandro Weilenmann, ‘The Beginning of Identification, and Its End’, in Yasmin Afschar (ed.), Philip Gufler: Dis/Identifications (Mainz: Kunsthalle Mainz, 2024).

Eliza Steinbock and Sandro Weilenmann, ‘Collaboration x Community: On the Seriousness of Queer/Trans Expertise in Art Exhibitions’, in Richard Sandell, E-J Scott and Nicole Moolhuijsen (eds), Queerness and Heritage (London: Routledge, forthcoming as Open Access in 2025).