open
QUEER
COUNTER-ARCHIVE
ENCUENTRO La Escuela, MALBA, Pinacoteca SP, 2024
Contraimagem/Counterimage, 2024
MESC-Museu da Escola Catarinense, Expo Cidade Pós-Pandemia, 2022
Premiered as an invited audiovisual exhibition and public talk at the Catarinense School Museum during the Post-pandemic Exhibition Program by both de State and the Federal University of Santa Catarina. It continues as an open archive for ongoing contributions and other possible unfoldings.
As a second action of muq, the Museum proposes the construction of instructions for a queer counter-archive in Florianópolis. Unlike the traditional, methodical, and hierarchical archive, a queer counter-archive, as defined by Ann Cvetkovich, comes out of the closet into the world to act as a public intervention and as a tool for alliance and historical inscription of narratives disregarded by cis-heteronomative practices. In this way, a queer counter archive seeks to gather records of affection and pain, creating spaces of multiple possibilities in which LGBTQIA+ bodies are protagonists of the archival construction.
Our archival action started from the construction of an archive of questions about queer experiences that unfolds into two instructions: (1) the collection of testimonials and audio files exchanged between LGBTQIA+ people; and (2) the materialization of these questions in adhesive materials, pasted in places of LGBTQIA+ sociability as a form of subjective expansion of the counter archive - coming out of the closet to the world.
The aim is to capture LGBTQIA+ experiences that are not only about violence but approach special moments, whether they are joyful or sad, banal or profound. The idea is to create a reliquary, a time capsule, that keeps fragments of what remains of our history alive and resonant, as it is constantly neutralized.
Archive
Archive in muq's care
Joaquim Araújo, Parada da Diversidade Florianópolis 2006
Joaquim Araújo, The Pub
Joaquim Araújo, Mix Café
Zoraia-Galheta-Manifestações-2024
Manu Wojcikiewicz, Madalena (sob consulta)
Manu Wojcikiewicz, 1007 Boite Chik
Manu Wojcikiewicz, Opium
Manu Wojcikiewicz, Jivago
muq's living archive
Open Call Contra-Arquivo Queer 2022
muq-Banheirão
muq-Beijo
muq-Manu, entrevista (parcial, não publicada)
muq-Cali Travaladralixo, entrevista e texto performance (parcial, não publicada)
Archive being processed
muq-entrevista Luiz Mott
muq-entrevista Guto Requena
muq-pesquisa Tibira
muq-LiDAR Pegação Parque da Luz
Sandro Clemes