Workshop on ‘Archives and Queer Counter-Narratives’ | QAMRA Archival Project
July 12, 2025
The Queer Archive for Memory Reflection and Activism (QAMRA) is hosted a workshop on ‘Archives and Queer Counter-Narratives’ at the Museum of Art and Photography, Bengaluru, on July 12, 2025. The workshop was conducted by Mira Brunner, Chief Archivist at QAMRA.
About the workshop
This workshop brought together two powerful tools of counter-narrative—art and the queer archive—to explore how we can use them in tandem to tell stories of our own. Together, as participants and facilitators, we experimented with ways of broadening our relationship with history, critically examining the present, and imagining the futures we hope for and work towards.
Through a series of hands-on exercises and discussions, we explored three key themes:
Preservation
What do we choose to preserve, and how? We engaged with a range of materials to think about preservation both practically and politically.
Organisation
How does the structure of memory storage shape how it is understood? We reflected on different archival logics and the possibilities of queering archival organisation.
Access
How do we dream through the archive? We imagined the audiences of the future and consider how we want our saved materials to speak to them.
This workshop was an invitation to think, feel, and make within the space of collective memory and queer futurity.
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