An Archive of Radical Practice
How We Behave presents materials from researcher Grant Watson’s expansive archive of interviews about radical life practices, which he has been conducting and collecting for more than ten years.
Taking French philosopher Michel Foucault’s notion of “technologies of the self” as a point of departure, Watson’s archive is driven by an interest to hear people’s stories – people who are mostly in the arts; more from the edges than the centre; sometimes linked to political work but not necessarily so; disproportionately queer rather than definitively LGBTQIA+; and privileged in the sense of having cultural capital but often precarious.
The exhibition makes available for visitors a wide selection of materials from the How We Behave archive, including transcripts, audio recordings and video portraits with interviewees from San Francisco to São Paulo, Utrecht to Delhi, Athens to Amsterdam. The exhibition is accompanied by a selection of materials related to radical life practice(s) from IHLIA’s collection, which houses an international archive of LGBTI histories.
Location: IHLIA Plaza, Oosterdokskade 143, 3rd floor (OBA Oosterdok)
When: 11 December 2023 – 4 February 2024
A collaboration with: If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution
