Karmaklubb* + Photography Day

Welcome every body!

• • 18:00 —20:00 Preus Museum is open, see the exhibition Over the Rainbow
  • 18:00 Artilleriverkstedet open, exhibitions and mingle

Open conversation, thought and pleasure session:

• • Introduction Preus Museum and Hilde Herming, curator for ‘Over the Rainbow’, and Karmaklubb*
  • ‘Art as a tool for micro-societies, parallel universes, and queer thinking’, with Maike Statz (on queering architectures/the spaces we inhabit with case: Løse deler/Loose parts)
  • Ragnhild Aamås; (Berg/Høeg; how to ghost write based on the archival visits and speculative fabulation)
  • Cassie Brødskive & Frida Marida (on the site specific video Queering the Museum — Preus)
  • Nina Mauno Schjønsby: ‘A mock turtle, a micro public sphere‘ (micro-societies; 1800s till now with selected publications such as Forloren Skildpadde and Tjenestepigerne)
  • Paulina Tamara (performing in front of the camera; ↗︎ Preus project; queerness through the lens today), moderated by Koyote (Koyo) Millar ↗︎ Koyote (Koyo) Millar.

• 18:30 Arrival at Preus Museum. Mingle and see ‘Over the Rainbow’
• 19:30 Open conversation, thought and pleasure session: ‘Art as a tool for micro-societies, parallel universes, and queer thinking’, with Maike Statz (on queering architectures/the spaces we inhabit with case: Løse deler/Loose parts); Ragnhild Aamås; (Berg/Høeg; how to ghost write based on the archival visits and speculative fabulation); Cassie Brødskive & Frida Marida (on the site specific video Queering the Museum — Preus); Nina Mauno Schjønsby: ‘A mock turtle, a micro public sphere‘ (micro-societies; 1800s till now with selected publications such as Forloren Skildpadde and Tjenestepigerne); Paulina Tamara (performing in front of the camera; ↗︎ Preus project; queerness through the lens today), moderated by Koyote (Koyo) Millar ↗︎ Koyote (Koyo) Millar.
• 21:30 Show! Cassie Brødskive, Frida Marida, and Phoenix D’vine
• DJ all night: DJ Brødskive
• Midnight: Return Oslo, kiss and goodnight.

This year marks the 50-year anniversary of decriminalization of homosexuality in Norway, and Preus Museum, national museum for photography celebrates Queer Culture Year with the exhibition project ‘Over the Rainbow’ as well as affiliated events throughout 2022. This includes works by artists living today and part of our history, and Karmaklubb* is part of the marking in several ways, including a commissioned work — ↗︎ Queering the Museum — Preus (2022) — as well as other contributions who represent queer perspectives with a centennial scope. And with us are loads of friends and family. Besides an extensive collection of archival material — mostly drag events from the last years, in particular created during times of pandemic when the camera was our tool reaching beyond the limits of people allowed. We have also produced a new art film starring Drag artist and academic Cassie Brødskive and Drag artist and activist Frida Marida.

What is so remarkable about this project is how the museum is used as subject for site specific artistic encounters, performed and executed while filming. The film is also part of the Preus Museum, national museum for photography’s collection, which is not only a queering of the museum in the most practical sense there and then, but also for future guests. Get to know the same artists at this event. Besides, there are even more site specific art works produces and about being published and implemented in ongoing research that you will be able to hear more about.

Will there be Drag? Indeed. Burlesque, too. — The evening will start with a low-key panel of artists, researchers, writers, and thinker working with different disciplines using various artistic methodologies as tools for artistic interventions creating spaces of micro-societies opening of for alternative speculation and presence — architectures of freedom and perhaps even parallel societies, all in a queer lens. This Friday night we fill Artilleriverkstedet in Horten — a party within historical frames. Perhaps even rewriting history, just a bit. We might even bring our own purple gem, the ale, A Kind of Magic.

This is the third chapter of the Karmaklubb* ‘Queering the Museum’ investigations. More information about the exhibition and our contributions ↗︎ here. Facebook event ↗︎ here. The programme is launching the ↗︎ Photography Day 2022, 27 August, with Paulina Tamara as main exhibitor. *** DRAG, BURLESQUE, DANCE, AND JOY. Save the date! Please note that times are approximate, be early! CC: 100 NOK. Ticket includes ↗︎ bus Oslo–Horten–Oslo! From Oslo Central Station at 17:00, Oslo S, track 19; return from Horten at midnight.