Wir sind Schmutz
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A queer voice from the past
2023-09-30 11:05:39 UTCYesterday I saw an interesting post on Instagram by the Magnus Hirschfeld Gesellschaft about the German writer Bruno Vogel, born in Leipzig 125 years ago yesterday. He worked at the Institute for Sexual Science in Berlin together with Magnus Hirschfeld etc in the 1920s. Very interesting for me, was the…
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Symbols of freedom
2023-09-28 15:49:07 UTCI am very interested in the process where a human finds her or his personal freedom. Lately I have been thinking that the process our society and culture went through from the Victorian and Edwardian periods into the after-war upheaval can be seen almost as a symbol of this. Or…
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Reading about it all
2023-09-20 13:10:56 UTCAs part of my preparations before travelling to Berlin and the Hirschfeld Collection, I am doing some reading. You may say that this project started with the book on the top right, “Gay Berlin” that I discovered in the superp London bookshop “Gay’s The Word” some years ago. Now I…
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Researching the early queer pioneers
2023-09-20 11:02:42 UTCThis November I am going to start working on an artistic project based on very early Queer history. I will start with a period of artistic research in Berlin, for it was in Germany the modern understanding of being Queer started. I have been interested in the queer pioneers in…
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Am I dirty? The naming of a project
2023-09-20 10:59:36 UTCI will start my work in Berlin at the Magnus Hirschfeld Collection in the beginning of November. What this project will be, will become clear first after I have worked with the material for some time, probably even some months. I have been reading and thinking a bit about the…