@archiveofserg1na.bsky.social
The archive of #Sergina - BlueSky version. Multi bodied drag queen @serg1na in the process of being archived by @digitalb0dy. 31 Objects now in Goldsmiths Special Collections, filed under D/O - Dragged Objects. Open to clean-hand handling by all.
The show is down & the box of Drag/ged Objects - inc my v old v tiny iPhone loaded w @serg1na.bsky.socialโs un/professional portfolio of webinars-seminars-data collection-data selling-songs-live-streamed antics - have been deposited in @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social Library Special Collections.
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Red photogram / contact print of a still from an online performance by #Sergina from 2020 and a high heeled shoe. The print is held up against a grey wall by a hand.
DO/23
Shoe and #Sergina
Photogram created during a residency @banffcentre.bsky.social in August 2024, with the shoe in this collection and a still from #Serginaโs ReWatchable Webinar about Relationship Advice in a Time of Covid (2020) youtu.be/SfOtwHQ_fXQ?...
1 item
2024
![Image of a hand holding a pink and black poster featuring a person in a #Sergina logo t shirt with a long straight wig on standing at a desk with a lap top and mug on it - both of which have the same #Sergina logo. The text reads '#Sergina's Desperately Delicious Dirty Data Delivery & Dissemination' along with instructions on how to watch it -online [via Instgram] or in Elly Clarke's studio at The Banff Centre, September 2024.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qr5gpzc3dryy57ec7ogsvfad/bafkreicvuenbuhn3d3zj2pulv3tgusmpe53iet3yegqucwydle6hqnnioa@jpeg)
Image of a hand holding a pink and black poster featuring a person in a #Sergina logo t shirt with a long straight wig on standing at a desk with a lap top and mug on it - both of which have the same #Sergina logo. The text reads '#Sergina's Desperately Delicious Dirty Data Delivery & Dissemination' along with instructions on how to watch it -online [via Instgram] or in Elly Clarke's studio at The Banff Centre, September 2024.
DO/24
The Last Performance: Banff 2024
#Sergina agentโs Desperately Dirty Data Delivery โ performed by Elly Clarke three times at Banff in September 2024
Link: www.instagram.com/reel/DAIRR3H...
1 item
Printed document
2024
Hand holding A4 piece of paper titled 'Rules for Purchasing A Piece of #Sergina's Dirty Data' - with a list of rules and QR codes to register interest.
DO/25
Data selling instrument: Banff 2024
To invest in a limited-edition Dirty Data Extract prospective buyers need/ed to register their interest via this form.
Link: forms.gle/7j28PZFQb2A7...
1 item
Printed document
2024
Hand holding printed out google form entitled "HOW ARE YOU - BANFF DIRTYING DATA WELLBEING SURVEY - with a QR code taking people to the survey. Answers dirty the dirty data as the dirty data display was made with data gathered through #Sergina performances until January 2022.
DO/26
Data collection instrument: Banff 2024
HOW ARE YOU? - BANFF OPEN STUDIOS DIRTYING DATA WELLBEING SURVEY. Since the Dirty Data up to 2022 is already printed, all data collected beyond this date dirties the dirty data even further.
Link: forms.gle/iTLHAtuFuY29...
1 item
Printed document
Hand holding test strip from the analogue darkroom. Showing edge of a zoom call in off-colours and a performance still from #Sergina's very first live performance ever, that took place in May 2014 at The Banff Centre.
DO/27
Test strip: 2024
Experiments in the dark
1 item
Object
2024
Hand holding sheet of acetate negatives, printed 4"x5" Index number: DO/28 Negatives From top to bottom: - Still from An Orgy of Algorithms and Other Desires and Distractions: A Love Story To Myself, 2017. Showing Vladmir Bjeliฤiฤ as #Sergina in Belgrade. https://youtu.be/-dpA6hlU8Z4?si=57A0RKNoQUJ7GvvR - #Serginaโs final performance at the Spill Festival launch, Ipswich, October 2023. Photo credit Alexander Ward for Spill Festival 2023. - Rules of engagement for How Are You? #Serginaโs Participatory Soap Opera in Three Acts about Wrestling with Wellbeing in the Digital Age at ONCA, June 2019 1 item Printed document 2024
DO/28
Negatives
From top to bottom:
[see alt text for full catalogue entry]
1 item
Printed document
2024
Hand holding hand-printed photograph of a screenshot of an online/offline performance that Performed online as part of IPAKโs Sexuality Summer School by #Sergina agents Elly Clarke & Stephanie Telomere in August 2021. Showing screenshare of previous episode of the same series performed in June 2019 with Bon Mott and Kori Miles at The Body of Knowledge Conference at Deakin University, Melbourne/Naarn, which in turn screenshared a screen recording of the 4 hour in person performance HOW ARE YOU? #Serginaโs Participatory Soap Opera about Wrestling with Wellbeing in the Digital Age with Vladimir Bjeliฤiฤ at ONCA in Brighton earlier in June 2019. Printed in the darkroom from acetate negative (like the others in this box) at The Banff Centre in August 2024. Link to performance the still is taken from: https://youtu.be/Kjy9tTvy1Xo?si=8i-e6TVtOT_mFtQM 1 item Hand printed c-print (unique) 2024
DO/29
Performance still
Hand printed c-print / photogram with wig trace of screenshot / performance still from Is My Body Out of Date? The Drag of Physicality in the Digital Age - Ep 4.
Link to performance the still is from: youtu.be/Kjy9tTvy1Xo?... [See Alt Text for more]
1 item
Object
2024
Hand printed photograph/photogram showing a drag queen standing patiently during the setting up of Google Hangout in the back of Silver Futures bar in Berlin in 2016. #Sergina is played here by Thomas Doherty. The imprint of two false eyelashes that were laid on the photo paper at the time of printing hover beside the queen. The tone of the image is blue. In a mirror to the right a reflection of #Sergina appears. On the left of the image is a hand holding the image.
DO/30
#Sergina with eyelashes
Hand printed c-print / photogram with wig of screenshot / performance still from #Serginaโs Stimulatingly Sexy Simultaneous Simulation of Herself, showing Thomas Doherty as #Sergina @ Silver Futures Berlin, 2016. Printed @banffcentre.bsky.social Aug 2024
1 item
2024
Picture of a hand holding two wire bound documents (351 pages in all) that are Elly Clarke's thesis as submitted towards their PhD in Art at Goldsmiths. An updated version incorporating minor amendments as recommended by Clarke's examiners Dr. Owen Parry and Dr. Emily Rosamond will be added to the archive in May 2025.
DO/32
Thesis by Elly Clarke, โIs My Body Out of Date? The Drag of Physicality in the Digital Age.โ
To read as much or as little as you wish, during your encounter. PostIt Notes (in the box) may be added to pages along with notes in pencil
2 items
Manuscript
2018-2025
#DraggedObjects
