00:01Wer war Yves Adams?
00:05Yves Adams war eine Lesbian-Woman,
00:08born in der 20th-Century,
00:10in einer Jewish-Familie in Poland.
00:12Sie migrated to the US in 1912,
00:15und sie war die erste Lesbian-Woman
00:19in zwei Queer-Meeting-Spaces.
00:22Eine in New York City,
00:23in MacDougall Street,
00:24in der Basement,
00:25an Italien-Restaurant,
00:27und eine in Chicago.
00:29But moreover,
00:30she was also a political organizer.
00:32She was friends with Emma Goldman
00:34and Alexander Berkman.
00:35She traveled the country
00:37in order to hand out flyers and pamphlets
00:39to young women in the factories.
00:41And she was also a writer.
00:43She wrote the book Lesbian Love,
00:46that happens to be one of the first books
00:48thematizing lesbian and queer women's topics in the US.
00:54And why is it for me,
00:56Irene Melik's artist and cultural work,
00:58are interesting to tell her story?
01:00So her story has been researched
01:02by historian Jonathan Katz.
01:04But I believe that artists have the power
01:08to tell queer histories in different ways
01:11and in specific ways beyond what maybe
01:13sometimes historical narrations can do,
01:15specifically if we don't have too many traces
01:18of certain queer lives.
01:21My PhD deals with methods of queer historiography,
01:24particularly artistic methods.
01:26And I think Eve Adams is a case to be researched
01:30not only by historians but also by artists.
01:34And that's what I am applying for.
01:37I want to go to New York,
01:38I want to go to Chicago,
01:39I want to follow the traces of Eve Adams.
01:42I have the chance to follow her traces in Poland.
01:46Because her life story goes that
01:48after having published this book,
01:50after having been organized politically,
01:52she got deported back to Europe in the 30s.
01:56And after working for some time
01:59as an Indian domestic worker in Poland,
02:01moved to France.
02:02And that was the dawn of Second World War.
02:05And the German fascists invaded France
02:07and they deported and murdered many Jewish people
02:11in the Shoah.
02:12And unfortunately Eve Adams was one of them.
02:15So we have a responsibility to tell the life story.
02:18And this is not only about following
02:20the traces of queer heritage.
02:22This is also about wondering
02:24of how to even tell these stories
02:27in a way that is beyond the court testimonies
02:31that we have, the legal and juridical language
02:34that is used in these files, fingerprints and all of that.
02:38How can we tell the story in the way
02:40that she would have liked to tell it?
02:42And how can I interweave the literature writing
02:45that she did,
02:46one of the first lesbian writing in the United States,
02:49with her life story
02:50and all the community places she created
02:53in Chicago, in New York,
02:55but also generally in her life.
02:59that she was found in a way that
03:13the church was here.
03:15And he was a part of this,
03:18and I was just like,
03:20this is what she wanted to do.
03:21And I think I've just heard a lot of
03:23things about that.
03:24That's what the German film is,
03:25and I think it's part of this,
03:26I think the French film
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