TY - JOUR
T1 - Curating Visual Archives of Sex
T2 - A Roundtable Discussion
AU - Sepahvand, Ashkan
AU - Slater, Meg
AU - Timm, Annette F.
AU - Vaccaro, Jeanne
PY - 2022/1/1
Y1 - 2022/1/1
N2 - In this roundtable, four curators of exhibitions showcasing sexual archives and histories - with a particular focus on queer and trans experiences - were asked to reflect on their experiences working as scholars and artists across a range of museum and gallery formats. The exhibitions referred to below were Bring Your Own Body: Transgender between Archives and Aesthetics, curated by Jeanne Vaccaro (discussant) with Stamatina Gregory at The Cooper Union, New York, in 2015 and Haverford College, Pennsylvania, in 2016; Odarodle: An imaginary their_story of naturepeoples, 15352017, curated by Ashkan Sepahvand (discussant) at the Schwules Museum (Gay Museum) in Berlin, Germany, in 2017; Queer, curated by Ted Gott, Angela Hesson, Myles Russell-Cook, Meg Slater (discussant), and Pip Wallis at the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia, in 2022; and TransTrans: Transatlantic Transgender Histories, curated by Alex Bakker, Rainer Herrn, Michael Thomas Taylor, and Annette F. Timm (discussant) at the Schwules Museum in Berlin, Germany, in 201920, adapting an earlier exhibition shown at the University of Calgary, Canada, in 2016.
AB - In this roundtable, four curators of exhibitions showcasing sexual archives and histories - with a particular focus on queer and trans experiences - were asked to reflect on their experiences working as scholars and artists across a range of museum and gallery formats. The exhibitions referred to below were Bring Your Own Body: Transgender between Archives and Aesthetics, curated by Jeanne Vaccaro (discussant) with Stamatina Gregory at The Cooper Union, New York, in 2015 and Haverford College, Pennsylvania, in 2016; Odarodle: An imaginary their_story of naturepeoples, 15352017, curated by Ashkan Sepahvand (discussant) at the Schwules Museum (Gay Museum) in Berlin, Germany, in 2017; Queer, curated by Ted Gott, Angela Hesson, Myles Russell-Cook, Meg Slater (discussant), and Pip Wallis at the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia, in 2022; and TransTrans: Transatlantic Transgender Histories, curated by Alex Bakker, Rainer Herrn, Michael Thomas Taylor, and Annette F. Timm (discussant) at the Schwules Museum in Berlin, Germany, in 201920, adapting an earlier exhibition shown at the University of Calgary, Canada, in 2016.
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U2 - 10.1215/01636545-9397016
DO - 10.1215/01636545-9397016
M3 - Article
SN - 0163-6545
VL - 2022
SP - 19
EP - 36
JO - Radical History Review
JF - Radical History Review
IS - 142
ER -