14.06.25, Emma Ydiers, Relating to lesbian archives

Sign up for the workshop Relating to lesbian archives by Emma Ydiers, which takes place on Saturday 14th of June at 19:00 in the Old House, Kunsthal Ghent.

This workshop is part of the programme of For some time I’ve been standing, an exhibition by the Curatorial Studies 2024-2025 cohort at KASK & Conservatorium.

Registration for the free workshop is required. There are a maximum of 20 spots available. If you can no longer attend, please inform the organizers so that we can give your spot to someone on the waiting list. Contact email is curatorialstudies202425@gmail.com 

Emma Ydiers (b. 1997, Belgium) is a writer and researcher at Ghent University. Their PhD project approaches exclusionary practices in current academic historiographies of post-1970 feminisms in Belgium as a mirror for power dynamics in that past itself. Their research aims to trouble the remembrance of this past as straight and white through the concept of information activism — a form of collective labour mostly carried out by those marginalized because of their gender, sexuality and race, fuelled by a frustrated desire for different information about their history and life than the one they saw represented. Similarly as these information activists, they aim to look both backward and forward in time: what happens when we bring other narratives of this past to the foreground by re-engaging differently with and with different archives in the present, and influence how this historical culture is approached for the time to come?