Lost and Found - Queerying the Archive
Nikolaj, Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center presented the exhibition
Lost and Found - Queerying the Archive, an international show of 13 contemporary artists focussing on memory and history in relationship to gender and sexuality.
How can we create an archive of the private memories of gender, love and sexuality that have been erased by official archives and excluded from the writing of history? How do we record and store feelings and intimacy? Lost and Found presented a series of spectacular, thought-provoking works addressing these issues through artistic visions of histories compiled and performed from a queer perspective.
Using the potent and emotionally laden detritus of society, like silent movie footage, a jukebox archive of pop songs and alternative family photo albums, the art works in Lost and Found reconstructed the past as (we think) we know it. Using photography, video and installations, the artists in the exhibition challenged official versions of history with humour and intelligence, tenderness and rage.
Size: 17 x 24 cm
Pages: 160
Date: 2009
Designed at Pleks
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