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This project is designed to develop an infrastructure to incorporate archiving into FIERCE’s programming according to the values set by the organization’s mission.
 
This project is designed to develop an infrastructure to incorporate archiving into FIERCE’s programming according to the values set by the organization’s mission.
  
The first public stage of ''Queer Pier'', the OutHistory page is designed to document the living archive of FIERCE’s work; and to invite individuals who have played a role in the political and arts community at the Piers to get in building its archive.
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The first public stage of ''Queer Pier'', this page will document the living archive of FIERCE’s work by inviting individuals who have played a role in the political and arts community at the Piers to get involved in building its archive.
  
''Queer Pier: 40 Years'' will culminate in a community "build-an-archive" event, a participatory exhibition of contemporary art at the end of 2010.
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''Queer Pier: 40 Years'' will culminate in a participatory exhibition of contemporary art at the end of 2010.
  
 
[[Image:Baltrop.jpg]]
 
[[Image:Baltrop.jpg]]
  
Alvin Baltrop.
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Photo by Alvin Baltrop.
 
Courtesy The Alvin Baltrop Trust, New York
 
Courtesy The Alvin Baltrop Trust, New York

Latest revision as of 12:41, 31 March 2010

Initiated to celebrate FIERCE’s ten-year anniversary, Queer Pier: 40 Years is an arts-based archive project.

This project is designed to develop an infrastructure to incorporate archiving into FIERCE’s programming according to the values set by the organization’s mission.

The first public stage of Queer Pier, this page will document the living archive of FIERCE’s work by inviting individuals who have played a role in the political and arts community at the Piers to get involved in building its archive.

Queer Pier: 40 Years will culminate in a participatory exhibition of contemporary art at the end of 2010.

Baltrop.jpg

Photo by Alvin Baltrop. Courtesy The Alvin Baltrop Trust, New York