study trip report- short
Nhung at museum of musical instruments, @Thảo Linh
Cover of a book at Film Haus, @ Đinh Nhung
One month, Linh and I spent time in Frankfurt (1-6, Feb) and 6-24 (me), till 30 (Linh), we visited, met, and talked with many people. We reflected a lot about archiving from practical conditions and perspectives including:
how to continue the archive
how to categorize
how to activate
how to continue even when we do not have many resources, even receiving none
Thanks to M and O from GI, Hanoi, we were sponsored with much freedom to learn and reflect. Also thanks to our friends who live in Germany who not only hosted us. Some have been queer artists, practitioners, and activists, and researchers/curators. Some have much more cultural knowledge and connections as well as living conditions to host us, which made us not worried so much about extending time while having no ends meet.
I also had great gratitude towards GI for having us go together. I am very chaotic but slow. If I visited alone, the outcome would be much less productive and less enjoyable. Having Linh, we also had a chance to talk and reflect on what were planning, seeing, and learning.
I am writing it as a very short version of our report. Perhaps, this one is not even a report but a very brief summary that I would like to send to our sponsor (the first gatekeeper, perhaps).
list of places/people/museums & archives/exhibitions we visited:
pre-trip: 1. yet to be named, Pham Tuan Tu, Hanoi studio
2. expos and Nguyên Kings exhibitions, National achivé 1 at Vu Pham Ham st (No.5),
meeting with dr. Tran Van Thuy, unexpectedly suggesting a method of archiving :)
Frankfurt:
3. Bending-the-curve exhibition, Frankfurter Kunstverein
4. Things we collect at the Museum of Design, Frankfurt am Main
5, Portikus (we heard a lot about it and wanted to visit but we could not get it this time)
6. the Lesbian Archive Frankfurt
7. Modern art museum
we also visited two sex shops and Red District in Frankfurt including Dr. Müllers Sex Shop (Bahnhofsviertel, Frankfurt am Main), and another one we hardly remember. Although nothing happened and we wore brace faces but it was still scary walking there in the evening. Although Dr. Muller's is much more friendly but it seemed target [straight] male customers.
Berlin 10. Flow: The Exhibition About Menstruation – A story about people who menstruate, Museum der Europäischen Kulturen
11. Hamburger Bahnhof:
12. National Gallery of Contemporary Art [Neue Nationalgalerie, Potsdamer Str. 50, Mitte]
13. Berlinische Galerie Alte Jakobstr. 124-128, Kreuzberg
14. Humbold forum
15. Schwules Museum, Lützowstr. 73, Tiergarten
After the visit to the exhibitions, we made an appointment to visit the archive. we had an afternoon looking at the archive, and library and had a conversation with Jessica, Romain, and Thao Ho.
16. Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien
An appointment with an archivist who has been working here since 2015 and showed us the archive
19. Spinnboden (Lesbian archive) https://spinnboden.de/archiv-und-bibliothek/
Thảo Linh paid a visit to this archive and had a brief conversation with one of the staff. we will have a zoom meeting 24th
March
20. The Living Archives
a visit and interview with Juliana
21. Trostfauen Museum (Museum of Comfort Women)/ Korea Verband, Quitzowstraße 103, 10551 Berlin
looking at the current exhibitions and library and archive
22. Snack magazine
Feministisches Magazin SNACK aus Berlin. we were in the coffeeshop with the group. They were making the second or third issue. Particularly liked Bao Chau who was an enthusiastic organizer as well as a writer.
we met a wonderful artist who has collected LOTUS magazines and shared his group archiving and presenting. A very inspiring and moving encounter.
24. Valie Export, C/O Berlin, Hardenbergstr. 22-24, Charlottenburg, 27.1.–22.5
25. Memorial to the Persecuted Homosexuals under National Socialism - Stiftung Denkmal für die ermordeten Juden Europas (stiftung-denkmal.de)
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meeting individuals
Thao Ho, https://www.schwulesmuseum.de/bibliothek-archiv/darling-of-the-month-thao-ho-and-a-1998-letter-from-west-java/?lang=en
Thao Ho (she/they)Thao is a cultural studies scholar and filmmaker. She teaches in/outside academia, writes fiction, creates and co-edits zines, podcasts. Thao worked at the Gay Museum & Archive as a research trainee where she focused on transnational queer movements and practices of memory. She has given talks at CTM Festival, MärzMusik and Radical Film Network on the politics of noise, temporality and aesthetics of resistance.
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