Queer.Archive.Work #2 (1923 Internet Archive Edition) (2019)

Loose folio of prints, cards, and newsprint publication
Risograph printing
14 in. x 20 in.
Edition of 100

Queer.Archive.Work 2 (1923 Internet Archive Edition) was installed in a special reading room at the Internet Archive in San Francisco on January 25, 2019. Printed as an edition of 100, the publication is a newsprint catalog enclosing a set of annotated risograph prints, allowing lesser-known material from 1923 to intermingle in a loose assemblage. Artifacts include rare, historical LGBTQIA+ content that I made available for the first time in digital format, and works by Black and Native American artists and writers. All items were originally published in 1923 and were in the public domain as of January 1, 2019. I edited and produced Queer.Archive.Work 2 as an artist-in-residence at the Internet Archive, and it was included as part of the Archive’s celebration of the newly-expanded public domain. I was invited to speak about the project during the celebration and addressed 1,000 guests with a short talk about the project

Contents—
A photograph of Barbette, 1923
A poem by Michael Field (Katherine Harris Bradley & Edith Emma Cooper), 1923
A self-portrait by Romaine Brooks, 1923
A painting by Julián Martínez, 1923
A poem from Cane, by Jean Toomer, 1923
A page from The Hobo, featuring the first appearance of fag in print, 1923
A poem from On A Grey Thread by Elsa Gidlow, 1923
A drawing of Hart Crane by Gaston Lachaise, 1923
1923 covers of The Crisis, edited by W. E. B Du Bois
A postcard of young men and women, unknown photographer, 1923
A painting by Awa Tsireh, 1923
A 1923 letter from Emma Goldman to Magnus Hirschfield
An excerpt from Guide to Racial Greatness by Sutton E. Griggs
A still image of Alla Nazimova from Salomé, 1923
A 1923 photograph of an artwork by Nancy Elizabeth Prophet