Karol Radziszewski talks about the creative process of the project Queer Archives Institute and his residence in Galpão VB, which is the result of the partnership between Videobrasil and the A-I-R Laboratory curatorial artist residency program. The artist comments on how from his incursions into myriad collections and archives since 2005, arises the idea of holding the Queer Archives Institute started out by focusing its scope of research on queer memory in Eastern European countries, which was later extended to other regions deemed peripheral, like Latin America. Karol talks about how the institute will get its first-ever brick-and-mortar headquarters during the Videobrasil Collection in Context #2 exhibition, in a bid to rescue and give visibility to a variety of materials associated with the history and struggle of LGBT populations, causing to resurface decades’ worth of their actions in the arts, in culture and in politics, obliterated by hegemonic historical narratives. Also comments the interviews he did with Laerte and João Silvério Trevisan, as well as his selection of works from the Videobrasil Archive that deal with gender and sexuality issues, establishing a rich dialogue with the QAI.
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