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Online discussion and exhibition viewing: Visualising the Lives of LGBTIQ Roma
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Organised by: Ljubljana Pride Association
Language: English
Visualising the Lives of LGBTIQ Roma is a group photo exhibition showing the too often invisible lived experiences of people at the intersection of LGBTIQ+ and Roma identities. It was created through a series of workshops that were part of a postdoctoral project of dr. Lucie Fremlova, in collaboration with diverse LGBTIQ+ Roma participants. Through their works, the authors not only offer an insight into their lives, but also demonstrate how they want to be represented.
Because we are unable to host the exhibition in person this year due to epidemiologic circumstances, we will show it online during the event. This will be accompanied by a discussion with Lucie Fremlova and with Roland Korponovics and Laszlo Farkas, two of the authors of the exhibition.
We will speak about the exhibition, the process of its creation, and the importance of such projects for the visibility of LGBTIQ+ Roma. We will also talk about the intersection of LGBTIQ+ and Roma identities and the challenges it poses, about feeling (un)welcome in different communities, about how LGBTIQ+ organisations and individuals can best support the Roma people in our community, and much more.
You can see some of the works from the exhibition here: https://qrstock.qrtv.eu/
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Lucie Fremlova is an independent international researcher of ethnicity, race, sexuality and gender. She works at the interface of academia, social movements and activism, particularly in relation to LGBTIQ+ Roma, the Roma rights movement, desegregation, inclusive education and the movement of Roma within the UK. Her work has been published in journal articles, she has co-authored a book chapter, worked as a peer- reviewer and is working on a book.
Her doctoral thesis on the lived experiences of LGBTIQ+ Roma in and beyond Europe is the first in-depth research study to explore the lived experiences of LGBTIQ+ Roma.
Roland Korponovics is a media-artist currently living and working in Budapest, Hungary. His main focus is on the visual representations of the LGBTIQ+ community at an intersection of the contrasting globalist approaches of western and eastern cultural narratives.
Looking at these identities as postmodern products, his main goal is to scan identities which are strongly defined by global online media. He explores how behavioural patterns of these communities are reinforced by these stereotypes, putting the spotlight on the critical approach from a postcolonial point of view.
His main artistic forms are performance and video.
László Farkas aka Gypsyrobot is a Berlin based Hungarian media producer, DJ and Roma LGBTIQ+ activist. He is the founder of the civil Roma and Queer community related media projects called QRTV Europa, Radio Shun.es and TV Baxtale. As a DJ he regularly plays his DJ sets at European Pride events (e.g. Budapest, Prague, Amsterdam) filled with Romani and world music. He was nominated for the Hungarian Roma Press Center Prize called “Aranypánt-díj” which is awarded to successful Hungarian Roma youth. He was one of the artists at the first Roma Biennale in Berlin.
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