Matchmaking in the Archive: 19 Conversations with the Dead and 3 Encounters with Ghosts
by E.G. Crichton contributions by Jonathan D. Katz, Chris Vargas and Michelle Tea
Rutgers University Press, 2023 Paper: 978-1-9788-2313-6 | eISBN: 978-1-9788-2317-4 | Cloth: 978-1-9788-2314-3 Library of Congress Classification CD971.C75 2023 Dewey Decimal Classification 306.76
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC
ABOUT THIS BOOK
Though today’s LGBTQ people owe a lot to the generations who came before them, their historical inheritances are not always obvious.
Working with the archives of the Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Historical Society, artist E.G. Crichton decided to do something to bridge this generation gap. She 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.
Including 25 pages of vivid images, Matchmaking in the Archive documents this monumental creative project and adds essays by Jonathan Katz, Michelle Tea, and Chris Vargas, who describe their own unique encounters with the ghosts of LGBTQ history. Together, they make the archive come alive in remarkably intimate ways.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
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.
REVIEWS
"E.G. Crichton has created a testament to lineage and liberation for all of us who know that diving into the past is also simultaneous discovery into our own psyche. This is a touching study of how identity, art, and lineage tie into the physical artifacts of our lives. Riveting and a true pleasure to read."
— Susie Bright, Editor-at-Large and Executive Producer of The Bright List at Audible and Author of Mommy's Little Gi
"E.G. Crichton's Matchmaking has shown us wonderful new ways of bringing together archives, history, and art. In this account of her work, the living and the dead, objects and records, and people mingle promiscuously, bringing new worlds to light."
— Graham Willett, historian of queer Australia
"E.G. Crichton has created a testament to lineage and liberation for all of us who know that diving into the past is also simultaneous discovery into our own psyche. This is a touching study of how identity, art, and lineage tie into the physical artifacts of our lives. Riveting and a true pleasure to read."
— Susie Bright, Editor-at-Large and Executive Producer of The Bright List at Audible and Author of Mommy's Little Gi
"E.G. Crichton's Matchmaking has shown us wonderful new ways of bringing together archives, history, and art. In this account of her work, the living and the dead, objects and records, and people mingle promiscuously, bringing new worlds to light."
— Graham Willett, historian of queer Australia
TABLE 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
Matchmaking in the Archive: 19 Conversations with the Dead and 3 Encounters with Ghosts
by E.G. Crichton contributions by Jonathan D. Katz, Chris Vargas and Michelle Tea
Rutgers University Press, 2023 Paper: 978-1-9788-2313-6 eISBN: 978-1-9788-2317-4 Cloth: 978-1-9788-2314-3
Though today’s LGBTQ people owe a lot to the generations who came before them, their historical inheritances are not always obvious.
Working with the archives of the Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Historical Society, artist E.G. Crichton decided to do something to bridge this generation gap. She 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.
Including 25 pages of vivid images, Matchmaking in the Archive documents this monumental creative project and adds essays by Jonathan Katz, Michelle Tea, and Chris Vargas, who describe their own unique encounters with the ghosts of LGBTQ history. Together, they make the archive come alive in remarkably intimate ways.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
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.
REVIEWS
"E.G. Crichton has created a testament to lineage and liberation for all of us who know that diving into the past is also simultaneous discovery into our own psyche. This is a touching study of how identity, art, and lineage tie into the physical artifacts of our lives. Riveting and a true pleasure to read."
— Susie Bright, Editor-at-Large and Executive Producer of The Bright List at Audible and Author of Mommy's Little Gi
"E.G. Crichton's Matchmaking has shown us wonderful new ways of bringing together archives, history, and art. In this account of her work, the living and the dead, objects and records, and people mingle promiscuously, bringing new worlds to light."
— Graham Willett, historian of queer Australia
"E.G. Crichton has created a testament to lineage and liberation for all of us who know that diving into the past is also simultaneous discovery into our own psyche. This is a touching study of how identity, art, and lineage tie into the physical artifacts of our lives. Riveting and a true pleasure to read."
— Susie Bright, Editor-at-Large and Executive Producer of The Bright List at Audible and Author of Mommy's Little Gi
"E.G. Crichton's Matchmaking has shown us wonderful new ways of bringing together archives, history, and art. In this account of her work, the living and the dead, objects and records, and people mingle promiscuously, bringing new worlds to light."
— Graham Willett, historian of queer Australia
TABLE 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 THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC