Queering the Collection
Exhibitions, events
International Center of Photography
2018 - 2019
book

Over a year the ICP Library collectively produced more than six in-house library installations and events considering representation in libraries at large. The success of this initiative resulted in an increase of the ICP Library’s holdings of queer, gender non-binary imagemakers, and artists of color Workshop: I hosted a show-and-tell workshop where ten artists and collectives presented work that ranged from a zine project that documents the death of nine men at a 1970s gay bathhouse to a journal that promotes critical engagement with contemporary art and politics. Book Launch: the ICP Library collaborated with Be Oakley of GenderFail, along with Christopher Clary, Patricia Silva, and many other participating artists, curators, and bookmakers, to publish a book that documents the series. The launch at ICP was moderated by Paul Soulellis, founder of Library of the Printed Web, who also wrote the book’s introduction. This program built on ICP's series Dismantling the Gaze, which considered looking, power, and visual culture in the #MeToo movement, and Queering the Collection, which presented work of and outside ICP’s Collections to expand the voices of queer artists

Curators
Be Oakley
Christopher Clary
Emily Dunne
Patricia Silva

Moderators
Christopher Clary
Paul Soulellis

Artists
Aaron Krach
Andy Wentz & Mylo Mendez of unbag
Anthony Malone
Linda LaBeija
Marcelo Gabriel Yáñez of Picture Newspaper
Molly Soda
Patricia Silva of Larker
Philip Tomaru of Practice
Shiv Kotecha

Panelists
Be Oakley
Christopher Clary
Emily Dunne
Patricia Silva

Graphics
Christopher Clary

Support
ICP Museum & Library

Event
ICP

Documentation
Jacque Donaldson
Claudine Boeglin