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Description
The "Queer Culture Museum" project aims to set up a team of professionals for inventory and research to archive and promote through specific educational events the artistic initiatives from 2001-2021 that address the queer sensitivity through the means of contemporary art. General Objective: Promoting diversity by encouraging cultural entrepreneurship and increasing public access to visual, performative and literary queer artistic productions. Specific objective 1: Encourage cultural entrepreneurship in the field of visual, performative and literary queer arts by creating 4 (four) jobs and professional development of 5 (five) experts in the field over a period of 11 months (2-12 months) . Specific Objective 2: Increase access to queer artistic productions by organizing a queer museum and cultural archive over a period of 11 months (12-23 months). The direct beneficiaries are 220 artists participating in the project, 80 participants in the theater production workshops, 20 people in research and archiving, 4 persons benefiting from job creation, 5 persons benefiting from the professional training. Within the sub-activities related to the publications will directly benefit over 100 people, 15 literary workshop students, 15 participants in translation workshops, 100 beneficiaries of tours guided through queer spaces in Bucharest, 20 queer archive researchers. Indirect beneficiaries, more than 300 people, are human rights activists (gender equality, Roma and LGBT rights, etc.), journalists and the general public. The project will begin with a training course in Norway at the Norwegian Partner headquarters. Using the museum''s definition as the main method of approach, the project is built as a comprehensive cultural intervention that will bring to the public the results of a qualitative archival research in the form of a contemporary art exhibition, a theater stage and a Literature Festival.
Summary of project results
The project aimed to address the need for greater visibility and recognition of queer culture and artistic initiatives, particularly in the context of contemporary art. It sought to promote understanding of queer sensitivity through visual arts, performing arts, and literature, as well as to support cultural entrepreneurship in these fields. Additionally, the project aimed to enhance professional skills in the queer arts sector and create opportunities for employment within the field.
The Queer Culture Museum organized a series of events, with support from partner institutions, categorized into three sections: Visual Art, Performing Arts, and Literature. A total of 31 artistic events were held, including exhibitions, theater performances, workshops, conferences, and artist talks, which attracted 2,110 participants. The project culminated in the publication of research results and the first digitized systematization of the archive material collected during the project’s implementation. Additionally, the project focused on researching and promoting artistic initiatives from 2001 to 2021 that explore queer sensitivity through contemporary art.
The Queer Culture Museum provided a platform for exploring queer culture through 31 events that reached 2,110 participants, fostering greater understanding and appreciation of queer sensitivity in contemporary art. The project contributed to cultural entrepreneurship by creating over 17 jobs in the visual, performing, and literary queer arts sectors, while also supporting the professional development of 5 experts. The research and the digitized archive made a significant contribution to preserving and promoting queer cultural initiatives, benefiting both the cultural sector and the broader community by increasing visibility and awareness of queer artistic expression.
Summary of bilateral results
The project included online training sessions with peer professionals from Norway, under the coordination of the Norwegian Partner. Moreover, the artistic creations of Kjersti Vetterstad were included in the exhibition organized during project implementation.