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ENGLISH BELOW

Dit is een Engelstalige expositie

In de IHLIA-tentoonstelling Blooming Archive zijn werken te zien van zeven Nederlandse en internationale kunstenaars die onze lhbtiq+-collectie hebben onderzocht. Dit varieert van textiel en boeken tot beeldhouwkunst, geluid en video-installatie.

Elk werk wordt gedreven door een andere benadering van het omgaan met archiefdocumenten: sommigen geven op creatieve wijze een nieuwe invulling aan archiefobjecten om gefragmenteerde geschiedenissen, vergeten figuren en activistische strategieën te reconstrueren en nieuw leven in te blazen. Anderen passen montage- en collagestrategieën toe op basis van archiefbezit, waarbij de nadruk ligt op vragen rond het ordenen en bewaren van achtergesteld erfgoed.

Alle tentoongestelde werken dateren van de laatste jaren en weerspiegelen de voortdurend groeiende relevantie van archiefkunst. Door verder te gaan dan de traditionele manier van het ordenen en tentoonstellen van archieven, verkent archiefkunst op speculatieve wijze de mogelijkheden van nieuwe lezingen van archiefstukken.

Een van de centrale doelen van de tentoonstelling is om de verschillende werken en benaderingen met elkaar in gesprek te laten gaan. Bovendien onderstreept dit het belang van de toegevoegde waarde van het artistiek tastbaar maken van de veelkleurigheid en compleetheid van queer- en translevens, die routinematig verborgen blijven in dominante verhalen over kwetsbaarheid, verlies en dood.

Het randprogramma omvat verschillende artist talks, een boekpresentatie en gratis rondleidingen.

This exhibition features works by seven Dutch and international artists who have researched the IHLIA – LGBTQ collection through their respective practices. Each piece is driven by a different approach of dealing with archival documents: Some of them creatively reframe archival objects to reconstruct and revitalize fragmented histories, forgotten figures, and activist strategies. Others apply montage and collage strategies based on archival holdings, highlighting questions surrounding the ordering and preserving of subaltern heritage.

Together, the works engulf a wide medial range, spanning from textiles and books to sculpture, sound, and video installation. All displays date from the last few years, reflecting the continuously growing relevance of archival art. The exhibition thus offers an insight into contemporary artistic discourses renegotiating art’s access to and participation in LGBTQIA+ history.

The motivation behind artistic research in non-heteronormative archives is not simply to extract material but also to add to the collections by way of critical inquiry and new creations. How then does archival art contribute to queer and trans heritage? By going beyond the traditional logics of archival ordering and display, archival art speculatively explores the potentials of new readings of archival records. In this regard, aesthetic sensibilities strategically recover evasive traces of intimacy and sexuality, instantiating an alternative and indirect form of archiving.

One of the central goals of the exhibition is to bring the different works and approaches into conversation, sounding out their intersecting concerns and interests in a still understudied field. Furthermore, the selection of works underscores the importance of the added value that comes from the artistic making tangible of the abundance and plentitude of queer and trans lives, routinely submerged in dominant narratives of vulnerability, loss, and death. 

The accompanying program includes several artist talks, a book presentation, and free guided tours.

We offer two free guided tours of the exhibition (30 min.) with an introduction to the field of contemporary archival art and LGBTQIA+ archives.

About Blooming Archive

This exhibition features works by seven Dutch and international artists who have researched the IHLIA – LGBTQ collection through their respective practices. Each piece is driven by a different approach of dealing with archival documents: Some of them creatively reframe archival objects to reconstruct and revitalize fragmented histories, forgotten figures, and activist strategies. Others apply montage and collage strategies based on archival holdings, highlighting questions surrounding the ordering and preserving of subaltern heritage.

Together, the works engulf a wide medial range, spanning from textiles and books to sculpture, sound, and video installation. All displays date from the last few years, reflecting the continuously growing relevance of archival art. The exhibition thus offers an insight into contemporary artistic discourses renegotiating art’s access to and participation in LGBTQIA+ history.

Visitors can meet the artists and learn more about their respective works. Guest moderators will lead the open discussions of around 20 minutes.

About Blooming Archive

This exhibition features works by seven Dutch and international artists who have researched the IHLIA – LGBTQ collection through their respective practices. Each piece is driven by a different approach of dealing with archival documents: Some of them creatively reframe archival objects to reconstruct and revitalize fragmented histories, forgotten figures, and activist strategies. Others apply montage and collage strategies based on archival holdings, highlighting questions surrounding the ordering and preserving of subaltern heritage.

Together, the works engulf a wide medial range, spanning from textiles and books to sculpture, sound, and video installation. All displays date from the last few years, reflecting the continuously growing relevance of archival art. The exhibition thus offers an insight into contemporary artistic discourses renegotiating art’s access to and participation in LGBTQIA+ history.

How do we care for each other in our living, learning and working lives? The manual Promiscuous Infrastructures Practicing Care calls for an ethics of care and attentiveness to one another, re-imagines the making and the use of infrastructures, and situates care within a genealogy of artistic and social practice.

>Promiscuous Infrastructures brings together more than twenty contributors—art and social practitioners, researchers, and educators—including the twelve core members of the Promiscuous Care Study Group, who have been researching and writing about caring infrastructures and promiscuous care for several years. This project takes seriously the urgent need to imagine diverse infrastructures of care at every scale of planetary existence. The resulting interdisciplinary publication comprises essays, visual schematics and scores, personal letters, recipes, and conversations, which emerge from the work of the study group, situated around the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam.

About Blooming Archive

This exhibition features works by seven Dutch and international artists who have researched the IHLIA – LGBTQ collection through their respective practices. Each piece is driven by a different approach of dealing with archival documents: Some of them creatively reframe archival objects to reconstruct and revitalize fragmented histories, forgotten figures, and activist strategies. Others apply montage and collage strategies based on archival holdings, highlighting questions surrounding the ordering and preserving of subaltern heritage.

Together, the works engulf a wide medial range, spanning from textiles and books to sculpture, sound, and video installation. All displays date from the last few years, reflecting the continuously growing relevance of archival art. The exhibition thus offers an insight into contemporary artistic discourses renegotiating art’s access to and participation in LGBTQIA+ history.

ENGLISH BELOW

Dit is een Engelstalige expositie

In de IHLIA-tentoonstelling Blooming Archive zijn werken te zien van zeven Nederlandse en internationale kunstenaars die onze lhbtiq+-collectie hebben onderzocht. Dit varieert van textiel en boeken tot beeldhouwkunst, geluid en video-installatie.

Elk werk wordt gedreven door een andere benadering van het omgaan met archiefdocumenten: sommigen geven op creatieve wijze een nieuwe invulling aan archiefobjecten om gefragmenteerde geschiedenissen, vergeten figuren en activistische strategieën te reconstrueren en nieuw leven in te blazen. Anderen passen montage- en collagestrategieën toe op basis van archiefbezit, waarbij de nadruk ligt op vragen rond het ordenen en bewaren van achtergesteld erfgoed.

Alle tentoongestelde werken dateren van de laatste jaren en weerspiegelen de voortdurend groeiende relevantie van archiefkunst. Door verder te gaan dan de traditionele manier van het ordenen en tentoonstellen van archieven, verkent archiefkunst op speculatieve wijze de mogelijkheden van nieuwe lezingen van archiefstukken.

Een van de centrale doelen van de tentoonstelling is om de verschillende werken en benaderingen met elkaar in gesprek te laten gaan. Bovendien onderstreept dit het belang van de toegevoegde waarde van het artistiek tastbaar maken van de veelkleurigheid en compleetheid van queer- en translevens, die routinematig verborgen blijven in dominante verhalen over kwetsbaarheid, verlies en dood.

Het randprogramma omvat verschillende artist talks, een boekpresentatie en gratis rondleidingen.

This exhibition features works by seven Dutch and international artists who have researched the IHLIA – LGBTQ collection through their respective practices. Each piece is driven by a different approach of dealing with archival documents: Some of them creatively reframe archival objects to reconstruct and revitalize fragmented histories, forgotten figures, and activist strategies. Others apply montage and collage strategies based on archival holdings, highlighting questions surrounding the ordering and preserving of subaltern heritage.

Together, the works engulf a wide medial range, spanning from textiles and books to sculpture, sound, and video installation. All displays date from the last few years, reflecting the continuously growing relevance of archival art. The exhibition thus offers an insight into contemporary artistic discourses renegotiating art’s access to and participation in LGBTQIA+ history.

The motivation behind artistic research in non-heteronormative archives is not simply to extract material but also to add to the collections by way of critical inquiry and new creations. How then does archival art contribute to queer and trans heritage? By going beyond the traditional logics of archival ordering and display, archival art speculatively explores the potentials of new readings of archival records. In this regard, aesthetic sensibilities strategically recover evasive traces of intimacy and sexuality, instantiating an alternative and indirect form of archiving.

One of the central goals of the exhibition is to bring the different works and approaches into conversation, sounding out their intersecting concerns and interests in a still understudied field. Furthermore, the selection of works underscores the importance of the added value that comes from the artistic making tangible of the abundance and plentitude of queer and trans lives, routinely submerged in dominant narratives of vulnerability, loss, and death. 

The accompanying program includes several artist talks, a book presentation, and free guided tours.

Visitors can meet the artists and learn more about their respective works. Guest moderators will lead the open discussions of around 20 minutes.

About Blooming Archive

This exhibition features works by seven Dutch and international artists who have researched the IHLIA – LGBTQ collection through their respective practices. Each piece is driven by a different approach of dealing with archival documents: Some of them creatively reframe archival objects to reconstruct and revitalize fragmented histories, forgotten figures, and activist strategies. Others apply montage and collage strategies based on archival holdings, highlighting questions surrounding the ordering and preserving of subaltern heritage.

Together, the works engulf a wide medial range, spanning from textiles and books to sculpture, sound, and video installation. All displays date from the last few years, reflecting the continuously growing relevance of archival art. The exhibition thus offers an insight into contemporary artistic discourses renegotiating art’s access to and participation in LGBTQIA+ history.