On Touching the Intangible

This chapter reflects on Jess Dobkin's Wetrospective through an examination of the archive as lived, embodied, and relational. Grounded in my friendship with Jess and our experiences in co-creating and performing archives, I attend to the archival trace as both a methodology and a materiality of sorts, a means of honoring queerness and other excesses not contained within traditional archives.

Keywords: Archival absence ; Archival excess ; Archives ; Ephemera ; Performance ; Queer Archives ; Queer futures ; Queer intimacy ; Queer kinship ; Queer performance ; Trace