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Queer Aesthetics and Archival Practices

Admission is free.

A pre-event reception will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. in the Doheny Memorial Library Treasure Room.

A series of events will be presented in conjunction with the exhibition Cruising the Archive: Queer Art and Culture in Los Angeles, 1945–1980 at the ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives. The events will foster discussions about LGBT histories, queer art and aesthetics and archival practices in contemporary art.

Queer Aesthetics and Archival Practices will feature artists and scholars who will discuss the practical and theoretical aspects of “the archive” and its relationship to contemporary art today. Moderated by curator and performer Malik Gaines, the panel will feature Ann Cvetkovich, professor of English and women’s and gender studies at the University of Texas at Austin; Catherine Lord, professor of studio art at UC Irvine; and Ulrike Müller, artist and coeditor of the queer feminist art journal LTTR.

Please join us before the panel for an opening reception for Cruising the Archive in the Doheny Memorial Library Treasure Room from 5 to 7 p.m.

Speaker Bios:

Ann Cvetkovich is the Ellen C. Garwood Centennial Professor of English and a professor of women’s and gender studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of An Archive of Feelings: Trauma, Sexuality and Lesbian Public Cultures and the forthcoming Depression: A Public Feelings Project.

Catherine Lord is a professor of studio art at UC Irvine, author of The Summer of Her Baldness: A Cancer Improvisation and Art and Queer Culture: 1885–2010 (forthcoming, with Richard Meyer).

Ulrike Müller is an artist and coeditor of the queer feminist art journal LTTR. She is currently organizing Herstory Inventory, a collaborative drawing project based on a list of image descriptions from the Lesbian Herstory Archives in Brooklyn, New York.

Organized by Joseph Hawkins, Mia Locks, David Frantz and the ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives. Co-sponsored by the USC Libraries and the Getty’s Pacific Standard Time initiative.

For further information on this event:
visionsandvoices@usc.edu

Location: Edward L. Doheny Jr. Memorial Library (DML) - Friends Lecture Hall, Room 240

Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

Contact: Daria Yudacufski