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Fanzine ‘Lesbisch Archivaria’
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Some behind the scenes images of the residency and presentation
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Fanzine ‘Lesbisch Archivaria’
Some behind the scenes images of the residency and presentation
Notes
2023 - present
This project was made possible with the support of Mondrian Fund and Provincie Fryslan
About the project:
Text about the presentation ‘Het Lesbisch Continuum’ on the website of Kunsthuis Syb
2023 - present
This project was made possible with the support of Mondrian Fund and Provincie Fryslan
About the project:
Text about the presentation ‘Het Lesbisch Continuum’ on the website of Kunsthuis Syb
Project/artistic research ~ Húsgenoaten: echo’s en sporen van een lesbisch archief
During an artist-in-residency at Kunsthuis SYB in 2023, Pia and Katinka started researching the Lesbisch Archief Leeuwarden (Lesbian Archive Leeuwarden, later named the Anna Blaman Huis) which existed from 1976 until 2013. They considered what it means to open up this archive in an artistic context. With this project, they reproduce the gestures of an archivist when they search, browse, pack, unpack and copy materials from the archive and, when they share their project with an audience, carry on the role of desk clerk and spokesperson. An important part of this practice for Pia and Katinka is the affective relationship with the material, an echo of the intimacy from the early days of the archive, while drawing on their bond as roommates.
The publication ‘Lesbisch Archivaria’ is a fanzine about the Lesbisch Archief Leeuwarden (L.A.L.), made by Pia Louwerens en Katinka van Gorkum during their residency at Kunsthuis SYB. ‘Lesbisch Archivaria’ was also the name of the periodical printed by the L.A.L., in which they published updates about their collection, ads and other information for their readers. In this ‘continuation’ of the zine, Pia and Katinka have merged material documenting their contemporary relationship to the archive and their collaboration and co-habitation as friends and roommates with material from the former L.A.L. On the occasion of this exhibition, they present an ‘anecdote for the archive’: a new page for the publication, archiving events that took place after they and the Lesbisch Archivaria left Kunsthuis SYB.