The article describes strategies and methods used in artistic research on archives, especially queer archives (i.e. ones created and developed by non-heteronormative persons), and archives which engage in a dialogue with queer perspectives on such concepts as: time, subjectivity, interpersonal and interspecies relations and human’s place in the Anthropocene Epoch. By referring to practices of moving image practitioners and visual artists such as Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński, Alexandra Juhasz and Ana Hoffner ex-Prvulovic*, the author concentrates on issues related to: materiality and representability of the archival “ephemera” (affects, narrative gaps), particularly those using digital media; the epistemological and ethical responsibility involved in the creation of queer archives; as well as benefits from conducting intersectional and transdisciplinary research. The above concepts originated in broadly defined (post)queer studies, combining interest in sexual and gender non-heteronormativity with discourses of new materialism and ecological humanities. Thanks to them the archive becomes a space of critical reflections also to the non-material and non-representable elements which create it: affects, narrative gaps and omissions.
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