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To help preserve the legacies left by earlier generations, artist E.G. Crichton selected 19 innovative LGBTQ artists, writers, and musicians to pair with deceased person whose personal artifacts are part of the Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Historical Society archive. Including 25 pages of vivid images,
Matchmaking in the Archive documents this remarkable creative project.
List of contents
Introduction to Q+Public Books by series editors E.G. Crichton and Jeffrey Escoffier
Preface
Section I Resurrection: One Life at a Time
Section II 19 Conversations with the Dead
Section III 3 Encounters with Ghosts
Animating the Dead by Jonathan D. Katz
Magical Thinking by Michelle Tea
Mi Transtepasado/My Trancestor: Amelio Robles Ávila by Chris E. Vargas
Section IV Lineages of Desire
Acknowledgements
Notes on Participants and Contributors
About the Author
Index
About the author
E.G. CRICHTON is an interdisciplinary artist living in San Francisco, California. Her projects have been exhibited in Asia, Australia, Europe, and across the United States. Crichton is a Professor Emerita at the University of California Santa Cruz, and served as Artist-in-Residence at the Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Historical Society from 2008 to 2014.
Summary
Working with the archives of the Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Historical Society, artist E.G. Crichton selected 19 innovative LGBTQ artists, writers, and musicians, then paired each of them with a deceased person whose personal artifacts are part of the archive. Matchmaking in the Archive documents this monumental creative project.