DIK Fagazine

UE: In connection with the exhibition here you have also released the latest issue of your magazine DIK Fagazine. Can you tell us about the new Stockholm issue?

KR: DIK Fagazine is the magazine, publication that I started in 2005. So last year we celebrated 20 years of existing of this publication. The design is made by Martin Falck, Swedish amazing designer.

And for this exhibition we decided – and also to commemorate the 20 years of the publication – (to make a) special issue that is called, as the exhibition, “The Classroom”.

And it’s… in the first part of the publication we focus on the activism, alternative ways of queer education. I talk with Wolfgang Tillmans about the Eastern Europe, about involvement in political and activist actions.

There is a long conversation between me and Hendrik Folkerts, the curator, about different aspects of archival practice in my work. Then there is a talk with the Young Queer Collective FORMORSO that is experimenting with queer education.

And then we have something that we call history lessons. It’s the part that is focusing on interviews from my oral history archive that is part of the Queer Archives Institute. We select them, edited them, and they are serving as references to the history that could be very informative for people who don’t know about the past, queer past.

We talk about an early lesbian publication from Ljubljana. We talk about the trans movement and fight in Poland, and about the persecution of gay people in Romania in the 80s and beginning of the 90s.