Open Call: Queer Underworld Market
07 pm – 11 pm, 03 – 06 Mar 2025
Hall, Goethe-Institut Hanoi
58 Nguyễn Thái Học, Ba Đình, Hà Nội
From the organizer:
Chợ Âm Phủ (Underworld market) is often imagined as a peculiar space—emerging in the liminal hours before dawn or late at night, when the boundary between the living and the dead is believed to blur. It is a place that appears suddenly, then disappears without a trace. This overlapping, interweaving, and coexisting of worlds, identities, and definitions—existing at the margins, flickering in and out of presence—inspires our Queer “Chợ Âm Phủ”.
Một Bảo Tàng Queer and ba-bau AIR warmly invite you—whether we have met before or not—to bring any materials you have: personal archives, research notes, artistic works, images, objects, videos, or sound pieces, whether complete or in progress. These contributions will become part of the community queer and feminist archive of A Queer Museum, which will be showcased on 08 – 09 Mar 2025 at the Goethe-Institut Hanoi.
These materials will not simply be displayed but will take part in an open archiving process—an experiment in archiving as a community practice. Here, archiving is not about fixing narratives in place but a continuous process—shaped through bodies, encounters, and dialogues.
(Note: Your contribution can be lent for exhibition or donated to the archive of A Queer Museum, depending on your preference. You can also decide on the level of access-who can view or engage with your materials.)
We look forward to seeing you at a “market” where there are no buyers or sellers—only fleeting moments of queer and feminist histories that we are writing together.
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