Researching and Reclaiming Edmonton's Queer History: Que(e)rying Curatorial and Archival Practice Through a Community-Based Public Art Exhibition
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In this chapter, we explore the process of que(e)rying curatorial and archival practice by explicating the origins, development, and significance of Edmonton's Queer History Project (EQHP), which is a multi-media public art exhibition and digital archive comprised of artwork, artifacts, and videotaped life-history oral interviews that debuted at the Art Gallery of Alberta, June 2015 during Edmonton's 35th Pride celebrations. Drawing on community and private collections spanning 35+ years, this community-based research project provides a glimpse into queer fugitive (Hill, 1996) and subjugated knowledges (Halberstam, 2012) past and present, and how queer subaltern counterpublics (Fraser, 1990; Warner 2005) survive and thrive amidst the hetero- and cisnormative status quo. We explore how we challenged and queered museum conventions to create a multi-media public art exhibition that rendered queer lives intelligible and visible to mark and celebrate Edmonton's lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, and Two Spirit (LGBTQ2) communities.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.008 | 0.007 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.024 | 0.034 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.011 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.007 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.007 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".