Duration: 1:00 pm- 4:00 pm (3 hours, incl. breaks)
How to archive beyond institutions? How to turn found objects, shared memories and collective experiences into archives? This workshop, led by Queer Indonesia Archive (QIA)’s Sidhi Vhisatya and Penang-based (Malaysia) artist, Hoo Fan Chon, dives into how queer archives emerge in unexpected ways – through accidental encounters, community networks, personal collections and other yet-to-be-imagined forms.
We will explore how informal, community-driven archives challenge dominant histories, remake queer memory, and offer new storytelling possibilities.
Through hands-on discussions, material explorations, and collective engagement, we will delve into ethical questions, creative strategies, and the role of personal and community archiving.
While the workshop centers on the voices of Southeast Asian diasporic communities and PoC, it is open to everyone who is interested in queer archiving.
Language: English spoken language.
Costs: free of charge
Registration: by e-mail at fuehrungen@schwulesmuseum.de
Please state a few lines about your motivation to attend the workshop in your Mail. The workshop is limited to 15 participants.
->->->Participants are invited to bring objects or materials that hold personal and cultural significance, contributing to a collective process of reflection and reimagining pasts. After the event, participants can decide if they want to donate materials to the archive of Schwule Museum, which collects materials of the LGBTIQ* movements, e.g. flyers from LGBTIQ* events, queer zines, books or buttons and there like.<-<-<-
Bios:
Hoo Fan Chon is a visual arts practitioner based in Malaysia. His research-driven projects are often set in local geographies and concern class aspiration, cultural identity, informal histories, and colonial legacy. By reframing everyday life with irony and wry humour, his works observe the oscillations and assimilations between social classes, the official and the informal, and the highbrow and the lowbrow.
Sidhi Vhisatya is an Indonesian queer art practitioner, currently based in Sydney, Australia. He is a member of the Queer Indonesia Archive since 2020, focusing on curating exhibitions and collecting materials through field trips. His work centers on storytelling and public histories as key tools for queer community engagement in Indonesia and the broader Southeast Asian region.
Ferdiansyah Thajib is a researcher and educator whose work lies at the intersection of theory and praxis, with a particular focus on queer affective entanglements in everyday life. He is a member of KUNCI, Yogyakarta (Indonesia), an initiative that experiments with modes of producing and sharing knowledge through collective study. Currently, Ferdi is a Senior Lecturer at the Elite Graduate Program “Standards of Decision-Making Across Cultures,” University of Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Germany.
Photo: Ferdiansyah Thajib