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Hi '''[[Queer]]'''! Welcome to the OoQA wiki. | Hi '''[[Queer]]'''! Welcome to the OoQA wiki. | ||
T'''he [[Office of Queer Affairs (OoQA)]]''' is a parasitic, fluid, mutating '''[[collective body]]''' involved with the '''Van Abbemuseum''' that embeds and entangles the perspectives of '''Eindhoven's queer community''' into the museum's '''curatorial practices''', '''public programming''' and '''educational activities.''' In our group, we have members, ancestors, allies, lovers and frenemies, all living inside and outside of Eindhoven, each with their own desires, sensibilities and socio-political activisms. The group is always loosely weaved together, sometimes gathering closer together to run projects and other times sprawling apart to grow in their separate directions. | T'''he [[Office of Queer Affairs (OoQA)]]''' is a parasitic, fluid, mutating '''[[collective body]]''' involved with the '''Van Abbemuseum''' that embeds and entangles the perspectives of '''Eindhoven's queer community''' into the museum's '''curatorial practices''', '''public programming''' and '''[[Queer Bookclub|educational activities]].''' In our group, we have members, ancestors, allies, lovers and frenemies, all living inside and outside of Eindhoven, each with their own desires, sensibilities and socio-political activisms. The group is always loosely weaved together, sometimes gathering closer together to run projects and other times sprawling apart to grow in their separate directions. | ||
Our [[relationship with the museum]] has always been more of a situationship. | Our [[relationship with the museum]] has always been more of a situationship. | ||
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Not long after we entered our more dreamy, reflective stage of incomplete [[Resititution in practice|'''resititution in practice''']] which gave way to our decision to document and archive our growth through the years to be shared with the outside world. | Not long after we entered our more dreamy, reflective stage of incomplete [[Resititution in practice|'''resititution in practice''']] which gave way to our decision to document and archive our growth through the years to be shared with the outside world. | ||
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We have utilized various tools, skills, technologies for our activities in and around the museum. These often originate from our experiences outside the office, for example, Malou offering their drag/make-up skills as an artist for the Drag-up events. At the same time, the activities at the OoQA have provided us opportunities to learn about new tools and apply those back to our daily practicies. For Noam, for instance, what they experienced from the OoQA's relationship with VAM has significantly influenced their starting as a cultural worker, and it was also during the Queer Bookclub where they discovered their interest in theories which later guided their transition to academia. | We have utilized various tools, skills, technologies for our activities in and around the museum. These often originate from our experiences outside the office, for example, Malou offering their drag/make-up skills as an artist for the Drag-up events. At the same time, the activities at the OoQA have provided us opportunities to learn about new tools and apply those back to our daily practicies. For Noam, for instance, what they experienced from the OoQA's relationship with VAM has significantly influenced their starting as a cultural worker, and it was also during the Queer Bookclub where they discovered their interest in theories which later guided their transition to academia. | ||