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Matchmaking in the Archive: 19 Conversations with the Dead and 3 Encounters with Ghosts [Kietas viršelis]

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  • Formatas: Hardback, 264 pages, aukštis x plotis x storis: 203x127x23 mm, weight: 59 g, 24 color illus.
  • Serija: Q+ Public
  • Išleidimo metai: 10-Feb-2023
  • Leidėjas: Rutgers University Press
  • ISBN-10: 1978823142
  • ISBN-13: 9781978823143
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  • Formatas: Hardback, 264 pages, aukštis x plotis x storis: 203x127x23 mm, weight: 59 g, 24 color illus.
  • Serija: Q+ Public
  • Išleidimo metai: 10-Feb-2023
  • Leidėjas: Rutgers University Press
  • ISBN-10: 1978823142
  • ISBN-13: 9781978823143
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"Matchmaking in the Archive draws the reader into intimate paired relationships between the living and the dead. Each pair was formed through a unique matchmaking process that took place in the archives of The Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Historical Society. The author, who is also the matchmaker, issued an invitation to wander through one archive, to connect with one person, and to invent a creative response. The nineteen relationships that emerged generated a powerful body of creative work that hasbeen exhibited and performed on four continents. It has encompassed live monologue, poetry, an aria sung by a male soprano, sculptural installations, paintings, photography, personal letters, a jam session, a short film, and the author's uncanny photographic portraits of each matched pair. Underlying the creative work are questions that crop up repeatedly: What is our lineage? How do we remember individual people after they die? What does a person's archive reveal? And, just as critical, what is absent from the archive, what secrets do the artifacts suggest, what shimmers in the gaps?"--

To help preserve the legacies left by earlier generations, artist E.G. Crichton selected 19 innovative LGBTQ artists, writers, and musicians to pair with deceased person whose personal artifacts are part of the Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Historical Society archive. Including 25 pages of vivid images, Matchmaking in the Archive documents this remarkable creative project. 


Though today’s LGBTQ people owe a lot to the generations who came before them, their historical inheritances are not always obvious.
 
Working with the archives of the Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Historical Society, artist E.G. Crichton decided to do something to bridge this generation gap. She selected 19 innovative LGBTQ artists, writers, and musicians, then paired each of them with a deceased person whose personal artifacts are part of the archive. 
 
Including 25 pages of vivid images, Matchmaking in the Archive documents this monumental creative project and adds essays by Jonathan Katz, Michelle Tea, and Chris Vargas, who describe their own unique encounters with the ghosts of LGBTQ history. Together, they make the archive come alive in remarkably intimate ways. 

Recenzijos

"E.G. Crichton has created a testament to lineage and liberation for all of us who know that diving into the past is also simultaneous discovery into our own psyche. This is a touching study of how identity, art, and lineage tie into the physical artifacts of our lives. Riveting and a true pleasure to read."  - Susie Bright (Editor-at-Large and Executive Producer of The Bright List at Audible and Author of Mommy's Little Gi) "E.G. Crichton's Matchmaking has shown us wonderful new ways of bringing together archives, history, and art. In this account of her work, the living and the dead, objects and records, and people mingle promiscuously, bringing new worlds to light." - Graham Willett (historian of queer Australia) Matchmaking in the Archive connects todays artists and queer ancestorsAfter reading it, there is a certain and distinct pleasure in a time jump, in nonlinear thinking, in reaching back and forth across decades as though all people from all time, living and dead, are sitting at one table, sharing a meal, passing dishes round and round, sharing and tasting the same things together.If you have any interest in the history and lives of our LGBTQ ancestors, then, yes, this is a book I recommend for you." - Nico Hall (Autostraddle)

Series Foreword ix
E. C. Crichton
Jeffrey Escoffier
Preface xi
Part 1 Resurrection: One Life at a Time
1(18)
Part 2 Nineteen Conversations with the Dead
19(136)
Part 3 Three Encounters with Ghosts
155(26)
Animating the Dead
157(7)
Jonathan D. Katz
Magical Thinking
164(7)
Michelle Tea
Mi Transtepasado / My Trancestor: Amelio Robles Avila
171(10)
Chris E. Vargas
Part 4 Lineages of Desire
181(36)
Acknowledgments 217(4)
Notes 221(4)
About the Author, Participants, and Contributors 225(10)
Index 235
E.G. CRICHTON is an interdisciplinary artist living in San Francisco, California. Her projects have been exhibited in Asia, Australia, Europe, and across the United States. Crichton is a Professor Emerita at the University of California Santa Cruz, and served as Artist-in-Residence at the Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Historical Society from 2008 to 2014.