Film: Archive Alchemy — Queer Art Luminaries Show and Tell

Start with a selection of video interviews featuring LGBTQIA+ artists from E.A.R.T.H. Lab SF’s living archive. Then hear directly from five of the featured artists in a conversation about their work, process and creative lives. The program includes a discussion of the interview archives, reflections and audience Q&A.

Hosted by Beth Stephens and Annie Sprinkle, this program highlights queer art, archives and creative practice through shared dialogue. 

Beth Stephens and Annie Sprinkle describe themselves as “archivesexuals,” reflecting their interest in helping friends and colleagues find homes for their archives. Since 2002, they have collaborated on multimedia art projects exploring love, sexuality and queer ecologies.

Annie Sprinkle is a former sex worker who became a feminist performance artist. Beth Stephens is a professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Together, they co-direct the nonprofit E.A.R.T.H. Lab SF. Their book, Assuming the Ecosexual Position: The Earth as Lover (University of Minnesota Press), chronicles their collaborative art practice and life together. Their feature film, Playing with Fire: An Ecosexual Emergency, is the third installment in a trilogy that explores environmental issues through an ecosexual lens. Their archive is held by Harvard University's Schlesinger Library.

Feature Artists

Kerby Lynch (she/they) is a Black lesbian scholar, community archivist and cultural organizer based in Northern California. She is Interim Executive Director of the Bay Area Lesbian Archives (BALA) and Director of Research & Facilitation at Ceres Policy Research. Trained as a geographer, her work centers Black queer histories, lesbian feminist economies and community-based archives as tools of resistance, care and collective power.

The Bay Area Lesbian Archives (BALA) is a community-run, volunteer-powered archive dedicated to preserving the histories of lesbian and queer feminist organizing in the Bay Area. Its collections document organizing, activism and community life from the 1960s through the 1990s. BALA works to preserve these histories, foster intergenerational connections and support ongoing research and community engagement.. 

Jason Wyman is a social practice artist and producer who designs experiences and media that weave singular narratives into collective platforms. His work amplifies the experiences, perspectives and voices of communities historically marginalized by institutional and systemic power.

Wyman has worked with Youth Speaks, Adobe Youth Voices, SOMArts Cultural Center, In Our Words: A Salon for Queers and Company, Ninth Street Independent Film Center, Frameline, The Bay Area Hive, San Francisco Public Library and the California School-Age Consortium. He lives and works in San Francisco.

Shine Louise Houston is the founder of Pink and White Productions, an independent queer and feminist adult film company based in Oakland, California. Founded in 2005, the company is known for centering queer and trans people and people of color in its productions.

In 2012, Pink and White Productions launched PinkLabel.TV, an online distribution platform and archive for independent adult films by filmmakers whose work expands representation in the genre. In 2020, the company launched Blush, an annual San Francisco film festival that highlights erotic cinema and explores the role of representation in visual culture.

Through filmmaking, distribution, and festival programming, Houston’s work has focused on increasing visibility for historically underrepresented communities and supporting independent creators. 

Chandra Laborde (she/they) is a queer Buddhist architect, architectural theorist and historian. She is a doctoral candidate in the History, Theory and Society program in the Department of Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley, with a Designated Emphasis in Gender and Women’s Studies. Her research explores the intersections of gender, ecology, justice and the built environment.

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