{"id":5000,"date":"2026-08-13T14:38:43","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T11:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/festivaliskreives.lt\/?p=5000"},"modified":"2026-08-14T13:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T10:39:08","slug":"queer-archiving-and-art-symposium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/festivaliskreives.lt\/en\/queer-archiving-and-art-symposium\/","title":{"rendered":"Queer Archiving and Art. Symposium"},"content":{"rendered":"

i\u0161girsti Lithuanian Queer Archive and the Nordic-Baltic Queer Archival Network are pleased to invite you to a day-long symposium \u201cQueer Archiving and Art\u201d in Vilnius, Lithuania, on September 5, 2026, followed by film screenings, exhibitions and other events within the framework of the 13th Vilnius Queer Festival Kreiv\u0117s.<\/strong><\/p>\n

How can queer histories be preserved, imagined, and brought into the present? This symposium brings together archivists, artists, curators, and researchers to explore the many ways queer histories are collected, cared for, interpreted, and shared. Across three sessions, we will consider what makes an archive queer, how artists can work with gaps and fragments in the historical record, and how archives can be activated through artistic and cultural practices. Together, the sessions open up a conversation about queer archives not only as places of preservation, but also as spaces for imagination, intervention, and creating new ways of remembering.<\/p>\n

Participation in the symposium is free for everyone, but you need to register<\/a> by September 2 in order to attend.<\/strong> Registration may close earlier if the maximum number of participants is reached.<\/p>\n

You can find the symposium programme and registration link on isgirsti.lt\/symposium<\/a><\/strong>. The event will take place at SODAS 2123 (Vitebsko g. 23, Vilnius). It will run from 10:00 to 16:30. Food and drinks will be available for purchase during the breaks.<\/p>\n

Contributors:\u00a0<\/strong>
\nSzymon Adamczak, theatre practitioner, founding member and program coordinator, QueerMuzeum Warszawa (PL)
\nAugustas \u010ci\u010delis, curator, i\u0161girsti Lithuanian Queer Archive (LT)
\nPeter Edelberg, teaching associate professor of history, Copenhagen University (DK)
\nAnna Giertz, artist, curator, Archive of Pink Noises (SE)
\nRunar Jord\u00e5en, historian, senior academic librarian, Skeivt arkiv, Norwegian Queer Archive (NO)
\nMaria Kapajeva, interdisciplinary artist (EE)
\nAnton Karyuk, interdisciplinary artist (LT)
\nAntti Kauppinen, cultural researcher, vice-chair, Friends of Rainbow History (FI)
\nViktorija Kolbe\u0161nikova, curator, i\u0161girsti Lithuanian Queer Archive (LT)
\nOlov Kristr\u00f6m, founding member, archivist, QRAB, Archives and Library of the Queer Movement (SE)
\nPia Laskar, historian, board member, QRAB, Archives and Library of the Queer Movement (SE)
\nAnna Piispanen, researcher, Finnish Labour Archives (FI)
\nRebeka P\u00f5ldsam, curator, research fellow in ethnology, University of Tartu (EE)
\nEmil Santtu Uuttu, dramaturge, performance artist (FI)
\nK\u0101rlis V\u0113rdi\u0146\u0161, poet, senior researcher, Institute of Literature, Folklore and Art, University of Latvia (LV)<\/p>\n

The symposium is organised within the framework of the Nordic-Baltic Queer Archival Network as a collaboration between i\u0161girsti<\/a>, Lithuanian Queer Archive (LT), Skeivt arkiv<\/a>, Norwegian Queer Archives (NO), QRAB<\/a>, Archives and Library of the Queer Movement (SE), Friends of Rainbow History<\/a> (FI), and individual scholars (DK, EE, LV), continuing NNAQH<\/a> initiative. The event is partially funded by the Nordic Culture Point, Lithuanian Council for Culture, Vilnius City Municipality and Norway Grants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"i\u0161girsti Lithuanian Queer Archive and the Nordic-Baltic Queer Archival Network are pleased to invite you to a day-long symposium \u201cQueer Archiving and Art\u201d in Vilnius,…","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/festivaliskreives.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/festivaliskreives.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/festivaliskreives.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/festivaliskreives.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/festivaliskreives.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5000"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/festivaliskreives.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5006,"href":"https:\/\/festivaliskreives.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5000\/revisions\/5006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/festivaliskreives.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/festivaliskreives.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/festivaliskreives.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}