Eliza Steinbock (E.A.)

I am the project leader the NWO Smart Culture project “The Critical Visitor: Intersectional Approaches for Rethinking and Retooling Accessibility and Inclusivity in Heritage Spaces” (2020-2025). The Critical Visitor investigates how heritage institutions can achieve inclusion and accessibility within their organization, collection, and exhibition spaces that meets the breadth of demands placed by today’s “critical visitors.” Fifteen heritage partners collaborate on activities to develop language and tools that dismantle intersecting oppressions, forms of exclusion, and marginalization. The project asks, “How can initiatives in the Dutch cultural sector become more intersectional, in the sense of developing multi-issue approaches to inclusion and accessibility?” Like our Facebook page to get updates on our activities.

Perverse Collections: Building Europe’s Queer and Trans Archives (PERCOL) Joint Programming Initiative Cultural Heritage, Ethics and Society Grant. (2023-2025)

PI for the Netherlands, with PL/PI Glyn Davis of University of St. Andrews, UK and PI Juan Antonio Suárez of University of Murcia, Spain. 17 Associate Partners involved with a series of landmark events. The Dutch team consists of of PI Eliza Steinbock, Postdoc Sandro Weilenmann, and Research Assistant Layan Nijem.

(To be) Delivered:

2-3 Nov 2023: Two-day Workshop “Lively Metaphors in Preservation Practices: Sex and Death,” day one hosted by Associate Partner Eye Film Museum at the Eye Collection Centre (Amsterdam) and day two hosted by Associate Partner Nederlands Institute for Sound & Vision (The Hague). Six panels, 10 talks, 35 participants.
3 October - 2 November 2024: Exhibition at IHLIA LGBT+ Heritage "Blooming" on artistic participation in the archive. This exhibition features works by seven Dutch and international artists who have researched the IHLIA – LGBTQ collection through their respective practices.
3-4 October 2024: International Conference “My Evidence: Creating LGBTQI+ Art and Archives,” at IHLIA and Mediamatic in Amsterdam aiming at 100 participants.
On-going: for PERCOL project website we will deliver podcast interviews, summary reports of events, mapping project with 3-D scanned objects and narrative context from each of 17 associate partners.
4 open access journal articles (co)written by PI and Postdoc.