𝗡𝗼𝘁 𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗙𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗹𝘆 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁𝘀𝗔𝗽𝗽: 𝗔𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗔𝗿𝘁 (Group 1)
𝗪𝗲𝗱𝗻𝗲𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝗦𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟴 – 𝟳𝗣𝗠 𝗣𝗦𝗧
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𝗜𝗻𝗰𝗹𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴:
𝗦𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻 𝗚𝘂𝗶𝗿𝗴𝘂𝗶𝘀’ work investigates narratives and histories that have often been forgotten, marginalized, and/or erased. Using a specific site, a related text (poem, biography, song, etc.), and a recovered history as the core of each series, she develops projects that engage audiences in a dialogue about power, agency, and social transformation through art. Her research involves studying available archives, as well as interviewing community members and leaders. This research leads to explorations of architecture, text, and narratives that translate into artworks that reactivate these lost narratives.The connection between the materials, the formal aspects of the work, and the content is crucial to the stories’ retelling: materials, colors, and patterns are the visual language through which viewers can access these lost histories.

𝗔𝗻𝗱𝘆 𝗖𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗯𝗲𝗹𝗹 (Associate Professor of Critical Studies) is an art historian, critic, and curator whose work foregrounds LGBTQ communities and their archives as wellsprings for histories of art and design. He is the author of Bound Together: Leather, Sex, Archives, and Contemporary Art (Manchester University Press, 2020) and Queer X Design: 50 Years of Signs, Symbols, Banners, Logos, and Graphic Art of LGBTQ (Black Dog and Leventhal, 2019). Together with Amelia Jones he co-edited the catalog Queer Communion: Ron Athey (Intellect 2020), named one of the "Best Art Books of 2020" by The New York Times. In November of 2020 he co-curated with Patty Chang, Live Artists Live III: Despair/Repair, a biennial performance art program dedicated to examining catastrophe and healing in the roiling context of the 2020 U.S. election and the (ongoing) COVID-19 pandemic. His criticism and academic writing can be found in Artforum, The Invisible Archive, X-TRA, GLQ, Dress, Aperture, and other venues. Recently he was named a DesignInquiry Fellow (2021/2022), and during the Summer of 2022 he will serve as the curator of the famed Artpace International Artist-In-Residence program in San Antonio, Texas.

𝗖𝗮𝗶𝘁𝗹𝗶𝗻 𝗔𝗯𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗿-𝗠𝘂𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 (𝗸𝘁) is a Coptic-American installation artist and art worker based in Philadelphia.
She works to create communities for those who live between spaces. Her research dives into fear, hybridity, queer(ing) collective thinking, grief, and cultural loss. Caitlin Abadir-Mullally works in sculpture, video, performance, and, most preciously, relationship building. Caitlin Abadir-Mullally is pursuing a master’s degree in library and information science with a focus in archival studies. She is passionate about documenting diasporic queer Southwest Asian and North Afrikan joy and complexity, and the agency of
the living to decide how their narratives are preserved.