Celebrating Pride Month, NGV and the Australian Queer Archives (AQuA) come together to present an afternoon of personal reflections and queer stories.

Taking inspiration from the NGV Collection and AQuA’s holdings, curators, archivists and other members of the LGBTIQA+ community will share personal responses to chosen works of art and ephemera with a queer story to tell.

Speakers

Helen Pausacker is a life member of AQuA and has worked extensively with the oral history collection. Helen also initiated the first of AQuA’s history walks which remain hugely popular today.

Susan Long is a lens-based artist and curator at State Library Victoria. They have a specific interest in the photographic archive as a site through which historical knowledge and memory are collected and reinterpreted.

Son Vivienne is CEO of Transgender Victoria. Son has a background in media production and Academia, and they launched their fourth book this year, titled ‘Queering Safe Spaces: Being Brave beyond Binaries’. They come from white working class roots in far north Queensland and regional South Australia, and they are ally to bio and chosen family with Arrernte and Ngarrindjeri lineage. Son is neurodivergent, non-binary and a parent to grown and growing kids and believes that deep listening can overcome almost any difference.

Ted Gott is Senior Curator, International Art, NGV

Michael Gentle is Curator, First Nations, NGV

Sunita Lewis is Project Officer, Asian Art, NGV

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