03.10.24, Benny Nemer, My Evidence: Creating LGBTQ+ Art and Archives

Postdoctoral Researcher at KASK & Conservatorium Benny Nemer presents his research at My Evidence: Creating LGBTQ+ Art and Archives, a conference at the Amsterdam Public Library October 3-4, 2024. The conference is organised by Perverse Collections, a pan-European research project led by researchers at Maastricht University (NL), Universidad de Murcia (ES) and University of St Andrews (UK). Nemer's presentation focuses on aesthetic strategies and ethical concerns when creating public-facing artworks that involve queer cultural material from domestic spaces rather than institutional archives. He discussed recent artistic activations of the libraries, homes, and gardens of queer cultural and intellectual figures in Amsterdam, London, and Montreal, as well as participatory, kinship-facilitating artistic gestures related to the dispersed postcard collection of French author and photographer Hervé Guibert (1955-1991). A core concern to this research is determining what archival material is shared with the greater public, what is for queer audiences only, and what remains entirely protected from view?