E.G Crichton is artist-in-residence with the San Francisco GLBT Historical Society and Associate Professor of Art at the University of California Santa Cruz. She uses a range of art strategies to explore social issues, history and site specific subject matter. She will talk about her current work “Lineage: matchmaking in the archive” – a collaborative work, and her role within the GLBT Historical Society. Gerard Koskovich said… For more information about the GLBT Historical Society in San Francisco and about E.G. Crichton’s “Lineage” show currently on display in the main gallery there, visit www.glbthistory.org.
Jenny Scott is responsible for developing the “South Australia Memory Radical Dream” website with their State Library, and implementing their presence on Flickr. Her experiences of coming out as a transgender in 1993 have fuelled her activism, and currently her advocacy for LGBTI visibility in the public archives.
Dr Yorick Smaal, local gay historian, identifies the issues of delving into archives when so little is on the record of our LGBT lives. Working with what is there (it has been largely the legal record), and ‘reading against the grain’ is the challenge. Yorick also contests our assumptions in interpreting the LGBT past, and our very notions of sexuality.
The Australian Lesbian & Gay Archives in Melbourne have for 30 years been the pioneers in collecting our LGBT archives. They are community-run and now – sit alongside the official collecting institutions – such as our State Library of Queensland, who have a commitment to building their LGBT content in their collections. How do we work together on this enterprise?
