Who will be remembered here

This is a project asking what it means for queer people to engage with historical spaces. Exploring the complexities of sites where traces of marginalised identities have been excluded or destroyed, this work seeks to create kinship and intimacy with queer lives from across the span of Scottish history, whose stories are all too often disappeared.

The intention is to create an archive for the future. To produce a record which acknowledges the multiplicity of bodies which live and exist here, and how their stories are a part of the fabric of Scotland.

Through a film, a book and photography the work weaves together intersections of lived experience, language and identity. Different artists explore what site and place mean to them. The project explores how we can make invisible lives visible, and how looking into the past illuminates the present and the future.

Who will be remembered here is an act of resistance against the erasure of cultures, languages and identities which has defined our past, and which threatens to define our futures.

Created by Lewis Hetherington & CJ Mahony