Thursday, March 27, 5-7 PM

// Please note that this event is exclusively for QTBIPoC. //

Myriam Diatta is founder of Center for Nordic Otherwise, a new initiative by and for QTBIPoC artists and cultural workers dedicated to resistance and liberation.

For this session Myriam Diatta will hold an informal meeting introducing the two strands within the project; the Curriculum and the Network. While the week-long Curriculum is open for application now and till April 7th (!) The Network will launch in Autumn 2025 and focus on underground strategies for navigating the art, design and cultural industries as racialized individuals. The session will include an exercise in exploring the Network and underground tactics we use to sustain BIPoC spaces.

The Network will be available to all QTPIBoC members of Center for Nordic Otherwise and it will be possible to sign up on the day.

Amplify what Exists is a monthly series of conversations and workshops which aim to collectivising ideas and practices for regenerating social and ecological connections.

Myriam Diatta is an independent scholar and founder of Centre for Nordic Otherwise, based in Aarhus. For more information, please go to: https://nordicotherwise.com/

Please bring a blanket, pillow or yoga mat as we will mainly be sitting on the floor.

Location:
Flensborggade 57, Copenhagen V
Limited seating—sign up via DM or email: arielfeminisms@gmail.com

Please note that the space where the session takes place is three steps above ground and the bathroom is not wheelchair accessible.

For this session artist Sall Lam Toro will be introducing their practice of care riders. They will share how the practice came to be, in what different contexts care riders can be useful, and how they can be a both individual and collective tool for bringing conversations on care and needs into collaborations and partnerships.

By way of conversations, smaller exercises and examples we will begin to write our own care rider during the session. Please bring a blanket, pillow or yoga mat as we will mainly be sitting on the floor.

Sall Lam Toro (they/them) (1990, PT) is an antidisciplinary multimedia performance artist based in Copenhagen. For more information please go to: https://www.bodyhacker.love/about

Amplify what Exists is a monthly series of conversations and workshops which aim to collectivising ideas and practices for regenerating social and ecological connections.

Link to Care Rider. Available for download :

https://www.canva.com/design/DAGhLIyj0JY/jVlfKu7INkC2toTV3tr01g/view?utm_content=DAGhLIyj0JY&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link2&utm_source=uniquelinks&utlId=h9a7d7bb045

To welcome the new year in the Gregorian calendar, we invited Sidsel Nelund, a Ph.D. in art theory, yoga nidrā facilitator, founder of (art re.search), and menstruality leadership mentor. As an experienced facilitator in cyclic awareness, Sidsel focused on the significance of menopause in shaping a regenerative art system.

As menopause marks a significant transitional phase, Sidsel Nelund shared her thesis exploring how the art world might evolve if life’s transitions and bodily cycles served as the foundation for organizing its production, exhibition, and reception phases. How might responsibility be shared across generations? And how could these phases and transitions shape artistic expression and improve the living conditions and well-being of art workers?

The workshop lead with a short session of yoga nidrā.

Amplify what Exists is a monthly series of conversation and workshops which aim to collectivising ideas and practices for regenerating social and ecological connections.

For more information about the collective creative cycles see:
www.sidselnelund.com/collective-creative-cycles

REFERENCES:

Hospicing Modernity, Vanessa Machase de Oliviera
Red School; cyclic leadership etc.)
Uma Dinsmore-Tuli; Yoga Nidra Network



Confluencing Archives was a festive gathering and celebration of the initial phase of (re)searching archives; a long-term project that approaches archiving as a verb—emphasizing collective practices and “doing archiving” as acts of care and ways to distribute knowledge for a present-future.

In its previous iteration, hosted in collaboration with Museum of Impossible Forms, Helsinki this past September, (re)searching archives convened a one-day symposium featuring artists and researchers engaged with complex forms of knowledge. These contributors highlighted the construction of archives as active, evolving practices that shape societal values and knowledge systems while amplifying marginalized voices and histories.

In collaboration with Skēnē this gathering reflected on the past event while collectively envisioning future paths. Through shared practices—listening, cooking, and reflecting—we explored how archiving can be designed as a regenerative, collective practice. Sound-based artist Yujin Jung hosted a cooking session of a traditional seaweed soup intended for newborn mothers, threading oral history and vernacular knowledge shared between family members and within communities in Korea together.

As part of this gathering we read a poetic report from the (re)searching archives symposia written by artist, writer and co-founder of Trans Library Helsinki Shia Conlon and shared a meal with a facilitated conversation.

Skēnē is a curatorial and editorial platform bringing together an international chorus of artistic practices.

This session featured visual artist Ida Raselli, who shared how tracking her menstrual cycle has become a vital part of her daily life and creative process. Through discussions and exercises, we explored the wisdom our bodies hold—when to rest, reflect, create, and renew—and how reconnecting with these rhythms can inspire more regenerative living.

As a group we examined Ida Raselli’s visual practice and read from her essay “Røde Sommer”. Grounded in feminist theory and experiences with pregnancy, childbirth, and menstruation, the text examines how the historical suppression of primarily female experiences has led to a loss of language and knowledge about our bodies and their signals.

Ida Raselli is a visual artist whose work explores the shared cycles of the body and nature, weaving these connections into poetic texts and artworks.

Amplify what Exists is a monthly series of conversation and workshops which aim to collectivise ideas and practices for regenerative social and ecological connections.

Next Session:
On January 6, we continue the conversation with Sidsel Nelund, a Ph.D. in art theory, yoga nidrā facilitator, and menstruality leadership mentor. She will lead a session on the transformative power of menopause.

(re)searching archives symposia approaches archiving as a verb in the presentation of collective practices and research into doing archiving as care and a distribution of knowledges for a present-future. The symposia will host workshops, readings, conversations and talks. Participating artists, organisers and researchers include Maryan Abdulkarim, Liesel Burisch and Maria Nørholm Ramouk.

Throughout the symposia the term "archive" will be addressed less as a stagnant site of knowledge produced in the past, and more as a site for collective knowledge production and a center of interpretation that influences the future, as highlighted by scholars Springgay, Truman, and MacLean. As a critique of the notion of research as a journey from not-knowing to knowing we will emphasize the affirmation and remembering of existing knowledge within feminist, queer, and decolonial research traditions, and follow these traditions accordingly. As Rebecca Close articulates in the essay The “I”s of Artistic Research, “‘I’ do not (only) ‘research’, ‘I’ ‘re’ (again, back, undoing, against) ‘search’."

Reflecting these perspectives, the program will focus on the active construction of archives, emphasising their role in shaping societal values and knowledge systems while also acknowledging and addressing marginalized voices and histories. The symposium will feature aesthetic practices and researchers who engage with complex forms of knowledge, recognizing that "knowledge at its core is collective," as Professor Erin Manning writes in The Minor Gesture.

(re)researching archives symposia is hosted in collaboration with Museum of Impossible Forms and organized in collaboration with independent curator and educator Leandro Ferre Caetano.

Photos: Zaida Ruby

(re)searching archives symposium
Saturday September 21st, 2024
Museum of Impossible Forms, Helsinki

See also: researchingarchives.org


Full Programme

10:15 - 10:30
Welcome

10:30 - 11:15
Archives of Invisibility
Conversation with Sámi scholar, duojár and curator Liisa-Rávná Finbog

11:15 - 11:30
Break and coffee

11:30 - 13:00
N9dro ntjwlo 7da jbola (We Could Travel the Mountains)
On distribution and knowledge transfer between generations
Workshop by artist Maria Nørholm Ramouk

13:00 - 13:45 Reflections and light lunch
13:45 - 14:00 Introduction to the Afternoon

14:00 - 15:00
Afterbirth
On iterations; Care practices and accessibility
Writing workshop by artist and doula Liesel Burisch

15:00 - 15:15
Pause and Coffee

15:15 - 16:45
Panel: A confluence of practices
Sharing session with curator and director of Museum of Impossible Forms, Giovanna Esposito Yussif, artist and poet Shia Conlon & architect Eveliina Sarapää

16:45 - 17:00
Reflections and Closing Ritual

The symposium is open for everyone to attend. Please sign up at: arielfeminisms@gmail.com
Address: Museum of Impossible Forms (MIF), Aallonhalkoja 9, Helsinki, Finland

The space is at ground level. It is free from accessibility thresholds, and has an accessible toilet. For accessibility concerns please reach out to us via a pm or send us an email.

Image: Maria Nørholm Ramouk

(re)searching archives symposia approaches archiving as a verb in the presentation of collective practices and research into doing archiving as care and a distribution of knowledges for a present-future. The symposia will host workshops, readings, conversations and talks. Participating artists, organisers and researchers include Maryan Abdulkarim, Liesel Burisch and Maria Nørholm Ramouk.

Throughout the symposia the term "archive" will be addressed less as a stagnant site of knowledge produced in the past, and more as a site for collective knowledge production and a center of interpretation that influences the future, as highlighted by scholars Springgay, Truman, and MacLean. As a critique of the notion of research as a journey from not-knowing to knowing we will emphasize the affirmation and remembering of existing knowledge within feminist, queer, and decolonial research traditions, and follow these traditions accordingly. As Rebecca Close articulates in the essay The “I”s of Artistic Research, “‘I’ do not (only) ‘research’, ‘I’ ‘re’ (again, back, undoing, against) ‘search’."

Reflecting these perspectives, the program will focus on the active construction of archives, emphasising their role in shaping societal values and knowledge systems while also acknowledging and addressing marginalized voices and histories. The symposium will feature aesthetic practices and researchers who engage with complex forms of knowledge, recognizing that "knowledge at its core is collective," as Professor Erin Manning writes in The Minor Gesture.

(re)researching archives symposia is hosted in collaboration with Museum of Impossible Forms and organized in collaboration with independent curator and educator Leandro Ferre Caetano.

Sunday 27 August 2-4pm
Online and at bladr

As part of the exhibition Soiled Archives, a reading group is held. For ARI. Readings Soiled Archives, Dorota Gawęda and Eglė Kulbokaitė will present selected literature, which introduce the audience to their practice in new ways.

The artists will guide the audience through the texts by communal reading and it is not necessary to read in advance.

The literature will be available at the event and is included in ARIEL Archive, which is a physical and digital collection of literature developed in accordance to ARIEL's exhibition program.

Selected literature:
Arts of Living on a damaged planet - Anna Tshing, Heather Swanson, Elaine Gan, Nils Buband
Dark ecology - Fred Morton
Soil not oil - Vandana Shiva

The texts are available at the exhibition as part of Zine of Soil, which can be accessed digitally via a QR-code, directing you to the file.

Sign-up: arielfeminisms@gmail.com

As part of Hosting Analogies - The pilot, curated by Nanna Balslev Strøjer and Rebekka Elisabeth Anker-Møller, ARIEL has been invited to further nuance the concept of hosting by contributing with a readership through our archival project, ARIEL Archive. With an open reading group we point to literature and other aesthetic material that highlights the concept of hosting in an intersectional and feminist perspective.

Selected literature:

· Pleasure Activism - The Politics of Feeling Good (2019), adrienne maree brown
· The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations (2019), Morrison Toni
· Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice Paperback (2018), Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

For the event, the audience is guided through the texts by joint communal reading. It is therefore not necessary to read in advance.

Saturday 17 June 2-3pm
Location: C4 PROJECTS / Dybbølsgade 60, 1721 København

Hosting Analogies - The pilot is the first part of a long-term curatorial research project that through 2023 examines hosting as a social, cultural and political phenomenon as part of C4 Projects' one-year exhibition program The Hospitality Programme.

For Hosting Analogies - The pilot, the two curators have invited performance artist Sara Arenfeldt and the nomadic exhibition platform ARIEL - Feminisms in the Aesthetics to enter into a dialogue with a selection of their reference material. Arenfeldt has created a new site-specific performance titled; Power and Etiquette: 14 advice to make guests comfortable  and ARIEL will contribute with a reading that both contextualizes Arenfeldt's work and the curatorial research. Hosting Analogies - The pilot is thus not an exhibition in its own right, but rather a form of first empirical digging into the theme of hosting and a simultaneous inoculation of C4 Projects and the hosting dynamics that are at stake between time, place and body - as well as between institution, artist, curator and exhibition visitor. Hosting thus moves in a circular fashion, where questions about who is the host and who is the guest are subject to constant renegotiation.

The knowledge gathered through Hosting Analogies - The pilot will form a direct starting point for the next 6 months of research and act as a backdrop for the final exhibition Hosting Analogies, which also takes stock of the year's exhibitions at C4 Projects and rounds off The Hospitality Programme.

BIOGRAPHIES:

SARA ARENFELDT: (she/they) is a white Danish artist, activist and gardener (b.1992) living in Copenhagen. They work with social engaged practice that, among other things, uses performance, illustrations, text and installations as media. They have staged their own performance productions at Teater Momentum in Odense, Noche en Blanco in Bogotá, Colombia, Kunstmuseum KODE 4 in Bergen and most recently at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Roskilde, among others. They have received art education at Bergen KMD and graduated from the Funen Art Academy in 2020. Sara primarily finances her practice through gardening and sporadic art support. She also has no family relations who are financially dependent on her or who can finance her art practice.

NANNA BALSLEV STRØJER: (b. 1986) is an independent curator and writer based in Copenhagen. Nanna holds a bachelor in philosophy combined with an MA in Modern Culture and Cultural Dissemination from University of Copenhagen, along with an MA in Curating from Aarhus University. Nanna has worked as a curator at a wide range of institutions; among others Museum of Contemporary Art, CHART, Malmö Art Museum, Etage Projects, Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art, and Roskilde Festival. Furthermore, Nanna teaches curating at Folk Art School Holbæk and is a continuous contributor to a selection of journals, research projects and publications, among others the Nordic Museum network Museum Why. Recent exhibitions include the Jutland Art Academy’s Degree Show ‘Loops’ at Kunsthal Aarhus (April 2023 and, the performative seminar ‘Eat the Rich’ at Malmö Art Museum (September 2022).

REBEKKA ELISABETH ANKER-MØLLER: (b. 1984) is a Danish curator based at SixtyEight Art Institute in Copenhagen. She holds a master's degree in Visual Culture from University of Copenhagen and an international MA in curating from Aarhus University. Rebekka has previously worked at Kunsthal Charlottenborg, VEGA|ARTS and with the curatorial collective South into North, as well as co-managed the exhibition space RØM for two years together with four visual artists. She has also taught curation at Johan Borups Højskole in Copenhagen and at Kunstpionererne in Kunsthal Nord, Aalborg. Recent bigger art projects include Enheduana - Queen of All Powers at Thorvaldsens Museum (September-November 2022), person - in motion at Rønnebæksholm, Copenhagen Contemporary, Kunsthal Nord and Kunsthal Aarhus (October 2022-July 2023) as well as Wholes at Nikolaj Kunsthal ( May-August 2023).

C4 PROJECTS is an exhibition space in Copenhagen. We organize and curate exhibitions that present extracts of the newest contemporary art. c4 is an experimental exhibition space that approaches art, curation, and communication from a position of curiosity. We arrange 10-12 exhibitions per year, along with a number workshops, readings, talks and other events. We present contemporary art of high standard and provide exposure for younger artists from Denmark and abroad. The exhibitions function as kick offs in the general debates concerning art and society. c4 projects grew out of the artist collective Carstengade 4 which has been organizing exhibitions at various locations in Copenhagen since 2011.

Obsidian Dream Love Letters: Vol. II (2023) is a multimedia installation with two performances by Sall Lam Toro, happening June 14, 2023.
Drawing upon a love letter to black erotic consciousness, built upon universes of phantasmagoria, the space is inhabited by sculptures, light, and plant companions. Visual elements of water and moving sound carries us through sequences of recorded footage, animated objects, and somatically conducted interviews to approach archival knowledge through interwoven acts of caretaking and caregiving.

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– Wednesday 14 June, first performance held at 7pm (CET)

– Wednesday 14 June, second performance held at 8pm (CET)

Location: Dag Hammarskjölds Allé 42D, 4th floor, 2100 København
Free admission
Limited tickets
Sign-up: arielfeminisms@gmail.com

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Biography:

Antidisciplinary, multimedia performance artist, Sall Lam Toro (they/them) is based in Copenhagen, Denmark, commencing a MA in Performing Arts: Critical Approaches at the Malmo Teatre Academy at Lund University in Sweden. They work with performance, dance, sound, and textbased and visual art, and their work relates to producing and claiming the erotic as a way into decolonizing bodies while finding strategies to create more accessibility to multiple universes of the sensual.

Obsidianes team ( Obsidian Dream Love Letters: Vol. II (2023)):

· creation, co-choreography, artistic direction, performance: Sall Lam Toro
· script writing, performance, co-choreography, assistance: Suzie the Cockroach
· animation, original soundtrack composition and production, assistance: Warren Jones
· videography, pov, narrative: Keiria Hissabu
· light and visuals design: Will Zawistowski
· costume design: Serena Coelho
· 3D animation and promotion visuals: Janice Prempeh

The performance is part of the exhibition Fear and Fauna; initiated by and made in collaboration with the newly started nonprofit exhibition platform, Dag Hammarskjölds Allé 42D, 4th floor.

Photos: Malle Madsen

As part of the exhibition Fear and Fauna, two open reading groups are held. For ARI. Readings Fear & Fauna II., the exhibiting artists will present selected literature and other material that in new ways introduce the audience to their individual artistic practices.

ARI. Readings Fear & Fauna II. participating artists are: Hanni Kamaly, Sidsel Meineche Hansen, Sall Lam Toro and Gro Sarauw feat. Ghost Agency, a project made in collaboration with Anni Garza Lau.
The artists will guide the audience through the texts by communal reading, it is not necessary to read in advance.

The literature is available at the events and is included in ARIEL ARCHIVE, which is a physical and digital collection of literature, developed in accordance to ARIEL's exhibition program.

LITERATURE:

Call Us What We Carry (2021), Amanda Gorman

Discourse on Colonialism (1959), Aimé Cesaire

Regarding the Pain of Others (2003), Susan Sontag

Pleasure Activism - The Politics of Feeling Good (2019), adrienne maree brown

Testo Junkie – Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in The Pharmacopornographic Era (2008), Paul B. Preciado

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism - The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power (2019), Shoshana Zuboff



The reading group is made in connection to the exhibition Fear and Fauna, which presents works by Danish and international artists: Gina Arizpe, Hanni Kamaly, Sidsel Meineche Hansen, Karim Boumjimar, Sall Lam Toro, Marina Dubia, Ida Lissner, and Gro Sarauw and Anni Garza at Ghost Agency.

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Sunday 11 June 2023 from 3-5pm (CET)
Location: Dag Hammarskjölds Allé 42D, 4th floor, 2100 København & online
Free admission
Sign-up: arielfeminisms@gmail.com

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On Wednesday June 7 from 6-8PM the audience is invited for an event which will feature a performative reading by Mindy Seu, who is behind the project and publication, Cyberfeminism Index, and a talk by Gro Sarauw and Anni Garza Lau with Ghost Agency, followed by a conversation between the three speakers.
The event is a part of the exhibition Fear and Fauna, and brings a renewed focus on taxonomy and data collection on the web as well as radical techno-critical activism, and touches on feminist perspectives from artistic, literary, and technological practices.

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Wednesday 7 June 2023, 6-8pm (CET)
Location: Dag Hammarskjölds Allé 42D, 4th floor, 2100 København & online
Free admission
Sign-up: arielfeminisms@gmail.com
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Ghost Agency is a project led by Danish artist and organizer Gro Sarauw and Mexican artist and technologist Anni Garza Lau. Through artistic practice, research and cyber security strategies, Ghost Agency works with collective processes in designing technologies for the safety of women in Mexico exposed to systemic violence with impunity. As an advocacy for women’s rights in the digital age, this project outlines a novel organization structure to transform the premise of women’s safety and human rights in intersections between digital and physical realms.

In Cyberfeminism Index, hackers, scholars, artists, and activists of all regions, races and sexual orientations consider how humans might reconstruct themselves by way of technology. When learning about internet history, we are taught to focus on engineering, the military-industrial complex, and the grandfathers who created the architecture and protocol, but the internet is not only a network of cables, servers, and computers. It is an environment that shapes and is shaped by its inhabitants and their use. Edited by designer, professor, and researcher Mindy Seu, it includes more than 700 short entries of radical techno-critical activism in a variety of media, including excerpts from academic articles and scholarly texts; descriptions of hackerspaces, digital rights activist groups, and bio-hacktivism; and depictions of feminist net art and new media art. Both a vital introduction for laypeople and a robust resource guide for educators, Cyberfeminism Index—an anti-canon, of sorts—celebrates the multiplicity of practices that fall under this imperfect categorization and makes visible cyberfeminism’s long-ignored origins and its expansive legacy.

Mindy Seu is a designer and technologist based in New York City. Her expanded practice involves archival projects, techno-critical writing, performative lectures, design commissions, and close collaborations. She has lectured internationally at cultural institutions (Barbican Centre, New Museum), academic institutions (Columbia University, Central Saint Martins), and mainstream platforms (Pornhub, SSENSE, Google), among many others. Mindy holds an M.Des. from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design and a B.A. in Design Media Arts from the University of California, Los Angeles. She is currently Assistant Professor at Rutgers Mason Gross School of the Arts and Critic at Yale School of Art.

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The event is happening during Artweek 2023 and is part of the exhibition Fear and Fauna, initiated by and made in collaboration with the newly started nonprofit exhibition platform, Dag Hammarskjölds Allé 42D, 4th floor.
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1. Left: Photo by Harry Griffin, Art Direction by Laura Coombs
Right: Image credits: interpolated frame from the AI generated video work Ghost Agencies Prologue, 2023 by Gro Sarauw and Anni Garza Lau.

2.Photo by Harry Griffin, Art Direction by Laura Coombs
3. Mindy Seu, Portrait by PhilipZhou, 2019
4. Video still from Ghost Agencies Prologue, 2023, by Gro Sarauw and Anni Garza Lau / Ghost Agency, 2023

For her durational performance installation A Matter of Time, 2023, Gina Arizpe has gathered extensive artistic research and intelligence into the violence and femicides in the region of Juaréz. Part of the performance presents two young women crafting cotton thread and weaving a thin veil in front of them that, with time, becomes opaque, hiding them from us. With a heavy backdrop of gender-based violent discourse and systemic misogyny, conditioning the feminist uprising in Mexico, the young women's stories come forth in a poetic manner that does not conceal the horrorful facts, yet allowing for the many silenced voices to appear.

Biography:

The work of Gina Arizpe (b. 1972, MX) researches physical and social limits in which the body of contemporary society is subjected to. As part of the Marcela y Gina Mexican Collective between 1997-2010, she developed the main artistic and performative strategies that continue to inform her exploration of socio-political positions in peripheral contexts.
The project is generously supported by CONARTE

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PERFORMANCE PROGRAM:

– Thursday 4 May, 5-8pm. A Matter of Time. Durational performance by Gina Arizpe

– Sunday 7 May, 1-2pm. A Matter of Time. Durational performance by Gina Arizpe

– Wednesday 7 June, 2-6pm. A Matter of Time. Durational performance by Gina Arizpe

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The performance is part of the exhibition Fear and Fauna, initiated by and made in collaboration with the newly started nonprofit exhibition platform, Dag Hammarskjölds Allé 42D, 4th floor.

Photo: Malle Madsen

As part of the exhibition Fear and Fauna, two open reading groups are held. For ARI. Readings Fear & Fauna I., the exhibiting artists will present selected literature and other material that in new ways introduce the audience to their individual artistic practices.

ARI. Readings Fear & Fauna I. participating artists are Marina Dubia, Ida Lissner, Karim Boumjimar and Gina Arizpe.
The artists will guide the audience through the texts by communal reading, it is not necessary to read in advance.

The literature is available at the events and is included in ARIEL ARCHIVE, which is a physical and digital collection of literature, developed in accordance to ARIEL's exhibition program.

LITERATURE:

Liliana´s Invincible Summer (2023), Cristina Rivera Garza

The Second Body (2017), Daisy Hildyard

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1982), Hayao Miyazaki

The Mushroom at the End of the World (2015), Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing

Animal of The State, Fiction through Reality (2016), S-Kit

Another hole (2019), Sara Gebran


The reading group is made in connection to the exhibition Fear and Fauna, which presents works by Danish and international artists: Gina Arizpe, Hanni Kamaly, Sidsel Meineche Hansen, Karim Boumjimar, Sall Lam Toro, Marina Dubia, Ida Lissner, and Gro Sarauw and Anni Garza at Ghost Agency.

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Sunday 7 May 2023 from 2-4pm (CET)
Location: Dag Hammarskjölds Allé 42D, 4th floor, 2100 København
Free admission
Sign-up: arielfeminisms@gmail.com

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šśhèëêēé is a commissioned text written by Jo Ying Peng on Gina Arizpe’s work and extensive research behind the durational performance installation A Matter of Time, part of the exhibtion Fear and Fauna. The text reads as a type of poetic intel and is found in the exhibition next to the work by Arizpe.

Jo Ying Peng is a Taiwanese independent curator and director of Vernacular Institute, currently based in Mexico City. Her practice ranges across curatorial, editorial, and cinematic boundaries to expand possibilities beyond linear narratives.

Colophon

Text: Jo Ying Peng
Copy Edit: Ashley Michelle Casillas
Graphic design: Moho
Print: Casa Roga

2. photo: Malle Madsen

For this event, the exhibiting visual artist, Monia Ben Hamouda will introduce the exhibition project by engaging a set of texts that inform and situate her practice. Hamouda has most generously taken it upon herself to translate a tale from Tunesian literature that will be contextualised and made available in English.

The literature will be made available at the reading. It will not be necessary to read in advance.

LITERATURE:

Destruction of the Father / Reconstruction of the Father Writings and Interviews, 1923–1997 Louise Bourgeois Edited by Marie-Laure Bernadac and Hans-Ulrich Obrist 1998, The MIT Press

Märchen der Berber curated by Uwe Topper 1986, by Eugen Diederichs Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, Köln

Psychomagic: The Transformative Power of Shamanic Psychotherapy Alejandro Yodorowsky 2010, Inner Traditions, Rochester, Vermont, USA

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Sunday April 24th. 2022 from 3-5pm (CET)
The Womens Building
Free admission
Sign-up: arielfeminisms@gmail.com

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Image: Monia Ben Hamouda, Blair, 2020; Installation view at Endless Nostalghia, curated by Treti Galaxie; Wood, fabrics, curry and turmeric powders, acrylic paint, plaster, 110 x 40 x 25 cm; Courtesy the artist, 101 numeri pari and Treti Galaxie Photo Flavio Pescatori

For this event, the exhibiting visual artist Melanie Kitti will introduce her chosen publications, and discuss how they inform and situate Kitti’s practice as a visual artist and poet.

The literature will be made available at the reading.
It will not be necessary to read in advance.

ARI. Readings is a series of events, oriented towards literature as communication and a vital part of artists’ research. The literature is selected by artists and guest curators from ARIEL’s exhibition program, so as to assemble a parallel publicly accessible archive; ARIEL ARCHIVE.

LITERATURE:
Aglaja Veteranyi, Hvorfor barnet koker i polentaen, 2018
Hiromi Itō, Vildgræs ved flodlejet, 2018
Johanne Lykke holm, Natten før denne dag, 2020
Mare Kandre, Bübins unge, 1987
Maria Gripe, Agnes Cecilia - en sällsam historia, 1991

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Sunday March 20th. 2022 from 3-5pm (CET)
The Womens Building
Free admission
Sign-up: arielfeminisms@gmail.com

ARIEL PRESS is happy to announce our newest publication, the upcoming artist book I'M TRYING TO BUY LESS (2021), a sewing pattern and work-drawing for a medieval dress by Hannah Heilmann.

The publication I'M TRYING TO BUY LESS is linked to 'Prereform.shop', a digital work of art and doubting idiosyncratic webshop, where works are priced according to the artist's sentimental values. The webshop's first reluctant item is an edition of I'M TRYING TO BUY LESS (2021), published by ARIEL PRESS.

The artist book and webshop item is a part of the late exhibition "A Webshop through the Ages" at ARIEL in the Autumn of 2021, and connected to Heilmann's research project, “Prereform Webshop” on shopaholism, sustainability ideas, consumption pains, and a particular worshipping of the past that, like a double-edged sword, expresses both escapism and futurism. A research project where Heilmann sets out to examine the social choreographies that apply to the webshop's shopping cart, its accelerated context constructions, and oblivions. To search for possible spaces of agency in the whiteness of interface.

The publication is available for purchase at:

'Prereform.shop', Gas 9 Gallery & ARIEL

Biography:

Hannah Heilmann is a visual artist based in Copenhagen. Heilmann holds a MA in Art history, University of Copenhagen, 2010. Associate Professor at the Royal Danish Art Academy, Copenhagen.

For this event, the exhibiting visual artist, La Vaughn Belle, in conversation with guest curator Daniela Agostinho, will introduce the exhibition project by engaging a set of texts that inform and situate the artist’s practice.

The literature will be made available at the reading. It will not be necessary to read in advance.

ARI. Readings 12# For Alberta and Victor, a collection of conjurings and opacities

Wednesday December 1st. from 6-8pm (CET)

ZOOM / Free admission

Sign-up: arielfeminisms@gmail.com

LITERATURE:
Dionne Brand, A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes on Belonging Kei Miller, Things I Have Withheld

Michel Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History

Temi Odumosu, "The Crying Child. On Colonial Archives, Digitization, and Ethics of Care in the Cultural Commons"

"I have not visited the Door of No Return, but by relying on random shards of history and unwritten memoir of descendants of those who passed through it, including me, I am constructing a map of the region, paying attention to faces, to the unknowable, to unintended acts of returning, to impressions of doorways. Any act of recollection is important, even looks of dismay and discomfort. Any wisp of dream is evidence."

-Dionne Brand, A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes on Belonging

ARI. Readings is a series of events, oriented towards literature as communication and a vital part of artists’ research. The literature is selected by artists and guest curators from ARIEL’s exhibition program, so to assemble a parallel publicly accessible archive; ARIEL ARCHIVE.

We are delighted to take part in the debate program at Rønnebæksholm Sunday October 24.

The debate program has been developed in a collaboration between Rønnebæksholm, KØN Gender Museum Denmark and KE - Kunstnernes Efterårsudstilling. The panel we look forward to meet and converse with about equality, diversity and communities is;

· Maria Nørholm Ramouk and Karen Nhea Nielsen, Visual Artists

· Moussa Mchangama, Head of Futurum and former chair person MINO

· Ali Aminali, Debator, author and social worker and involved in the Dansk Mandesamfund.

· Jytte Hilden, former Minister of Culture, Head of Culture at the Royal Library and Rector of Roskilde Cathedral School.

- The panel is moderated by Julie Rokkjær Birch, director of KØN - Gender Museum Denmark.

The debate program on October 24, is a part of "Tak for Venligheden!" Rønnebæksholm's celebration of their 700th anniversary.

Please check the event program and additional information on Rønnebæksholm's website: https://roennebaeksholm.dk/

For this ARI. Readings event, the exhibiting visual artist, Hannah Heilmann will guide a reading of the fiction of patterns and historical narratives, for which Heilmann examines a patchwork of textile patterns and consumption habits over time, seen in a global perspective.

Heilmann has also worked on a distinctive miniature sewing pattern, connected to her exhibition A webshop through the Ages, which is published in a limited edition format by ARIEL PRESS, and can be purchased for this ARI. Readings event.

The literature is purchased for the publicly available archive, ARIEL ARCHIVE.

LITERATURE:

Claire Fontaine, Human Strike Has Already Begun & Other Essays, Post Media Lab, 2013

‘Samtale med Dea Trier Mørch’ i Lilith, Billedet som kampmiddel, Informations Forlag, 1977

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Sunday 10 October 2-4pm

The Women’s Building

Free admission

Sign-up: arielfeminisms@gmail.com

At this event ARIEL will introduce the audience to A Better Life For The Workers (I) by visual artist Jen Liu, which is the first publication from ARIEL PRESS.

The new release of A Better Life For The Workers (I) has been re-worked by artist, Jen Liu, and is based on what was originally an internal training manual for the Hong Kong-based NGO Worker Empowerment's education programme for workers in Shenzhen. More widely published in 2013, the manual comprises two volumes that describe and analyze the psychological, political, and legal issues shaping industrial work life in modern China.

All proceeds will go to the Hong Kong-based NGO Worker Empowerment.

The project is supported by S.C. Van Fonden.

The publication can be purchased at the event.

ARIEL PRESS

The micro publishing house ARIEL PRESS is a part of the exhibition platform ARIEL – Feminisms in the Aesthetics located in The Women's Building.

ARIEL PRESS publishes and co-produces publications that originate from or go in connection with the program for ARIEL's exhibitions and public events under ARI. All publications support ARIEL's overall mission to nuance and illuminate a current and diverse field of intersectional feminist theory and art practice in the 21st century.

Image: Photographer: Jen Liu Hand Model: Baseera Khan

A BETTER LIFE FOR THE WORKERS (I)

We are pleased to announce our first publication with ARIEL PRESS. The new release of A Better Life For The Workers (I) has been re-worked by artist, Jen Liu, and is based on what was originally an internal training manual for the Hong Kong-based NGO Worker Empowerment's education programme for workers in Shenzhen. More widely published in 2013, the manual comprises two volumes that describe and analyze the psychological, political, and legal issues shaping industrial work life in modern China.

All proceeds will go to the Hong Kong-based NGO Worker Empowerment.

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A Better Life For The Workers (I) is now ready for purchase. All European sales go through ARIEL PRESS and selected vendors.

120 DKK / 16,13 € / 19 $ [plus delivery depending on location]

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– In the US, we refer to artist Jen Liu and collaborating institutions. – Contemporary Art Museum, St Louis – LACMA | Los Angeles County Museum of Art – Printed Matter, New York

– Outside of the US sales go through ARIEL PRESS or selected collaborative vendors.

Currently the book can be purchased at Politikens boghal (DK). More places will be announced.

To purchase through ARIEL PRESS contact arielfeminisms@gmail.com

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The project is supported by S.C. Van Fonden.

Photographer: Jen Liu

Hand Model: Baseera Khan

ARIEL - Feminisms in the Aesthetics invites you to a collective writing workshop in continuation of the exhibition Art Differences Communities - Yvette Brackman and Bettina Camilla Vestergaard, which took place from 21.05 to 06.06. 2021.

The writing workshop will deal with unacknowledged privilege in the Danish art environments, and we invite our colleagues, fellow artworkers and other interested parties to collectively write short texts on this matter, which will be included in the forthcoming publication by Brackman and Vestergaard, published on ARIEL PRESS.

Collective writing workshop  – in continuation of Art Differences Communities

Date: August 14, 2021, at 2-4 pm

Venue: Women's Building, ARIEL - Feminisms in the Aesthetics

The collective writing workshop is based on the text "White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack" and "Some Notes for Facilitators" from 1989 by Peggy McIntosh.

For the writing workshop, we will read fragments of Peggy McIntosh's text together that touch on unacknowledged privilege in regards to; skin color, class, gender, functional variation and other identity markers. The text was written in 1989 and still makes a big impression today.

Inspired by McIntosh's method, all participants in the writing workshop will engage with experiences and effects of unacknowledged privilege, thus actively bringing conversations about structural inequality and discrimination into the present.

– If you are interested to know more or would like to receive an invitation to the collective writing workshop please contact: arielfeminisms@gmail.com

Picture: Quote from McIntosh, Peggy: "White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack", 1989, p.2

“They weave a web of reciprocity, of giving and taking. In this way, the trees all act as one because the fungi have connected them. Through unity, survival. All flourishing is mutual. Soil, fungus, tree, squirrel, boy - alle are the beneficiaries of reciprocity.”

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants, Robin Wall Kimmerer, 2013

As artists and researchers, Edna Bonhomme, Luiza Prado de O. Martins are invested in reproductive rights, othered bodies, and care. In relation to their residency and exhibition at ARIEL, Edna Bonhomme, Luiza Prado de O. Martins and the curators at ARIEL will host a reading group. The literature for this ARI. Readings event has been selected by Edna Bonhomme and Luiza Prado de O. Martins, who will guide the reading and introduce the material. It will not be necessary to read in advance.

LITERATURE

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants, Robin Wall Kimmerer, 2013

Dear Science and Other Stories, Katherine McKittrick, 2021

The Delusions of Care, Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, 2021

In relation to the exhibition's public program, Yvette Brackman, Bettina Camilla Vestergaard and the curators at ARIEL will host an ARI. Readings event, based on the literary material, which has helped shape the ongoing process of the book. The purpose of the reading event is to expand the knowledge of usage of language and push for development when it comes to how we speak about discrimination and the harassment by sharing resources, and as a result, iniatiate a conversation on how we collectively can create a more caring and respectful artistic milieu.

For this event, the associated literature and other matter has been selected by Yvette Brackman og Bettina Camilla Vestergaard, who will guide the reading and introduce the material. It will not be necessary to read in advance.

Sunday 6 June 2-4pm

The Women’s Building

Free admission

Sign-up: arielfeminisms@gmail.com

Literature:

McIntosh, Peggy: "White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack" and "Some Notes for Facilitators", 1989

Crenshaw, Kimberle: Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics, 1989

Borchorst, A., & Agustin, L. R.: Seksuel chikane på arbejdspladsen: Faglige, politiske og retlige spor. (OA-udgave udg.) Aalborg Universitetsforlag, 2017

In June 2021, ARIEL is hosting a residency for writer, artist and researcher Edna Bonhomme and artist and researcher Luiza Prado de O. Martins. The residency is a collaboration with Ida Bencke from The Laboratory for Aesthetics and Ecology and the commencing part of the exhibition and research project; Art of Repair, which is a part of the program ART4MED, coordinated by Art2M / Makery (Fr) in cooperation with Bioart Society (Fi), Kersnikova (Si), Waag Society (Nl), and co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union.

The residency will facilitate collaborative research and work on interrogating the role of scientific knowledge and how we see bodies and healing. Both Prado de O. Martins and Bonhomme are looking at epistemologies of science/knowledge and where they meet and diverge.

Bonhomme will activate the intimate, communal, and scientific (mis)conceptions of the black body by triangulating medical narratives of failure, loss, and growth. Starting from autobiography and moving towards near present accounts, the work will be a mixed-media and multi-sensory experiment, an ongoing meditation that charts an archaeology of black (in)fertility while also troubling how we think about kin through journals, medical reports, psychoanalysis, and sound.

Prado de O. Martins will develop work about the presence of a common contraceptive and edible plant popularly known as Queen Anne’s Lace in Amager, Copenhagen. Her work will examine themes concerning the dissemination of herbalist knowledge(s), fertility, and coloniality, looking into Denmark’s usage of jus sanguinis – a legal principle by which citizenship is determined by the nationality of one’s parents, rather than place of birth.

At the end of the residency period, Prado de O. Martins and Bonhomme will present an exhibition at ARIEL opening Friday 25 June 2021.

Biographies:

Luiza Prado de O. Martin is an artist, writer, and researcher based in Berlin, Germany whose work examines themes around fertility, reproduction, coloniality, gender, and race. She holds an MA from the Hochschule für Künste Bremen, and a PhD from the Berlin University of the Arts. Her ongoing artistic research project, “A Topography of Excesses”, looks into encounters between human and plant beings within the context of herbalist reproductive medicine, approaching these practices as expressions of radical care. Since 2019, she has broadened the scope of this research, developing a body of work that offers a critique of the racist concept of ‘overpopulation’ in the context of the current climate crisis. She is part of the curatorial board of Transmediale 2021 and an Assistant Professor and Vice-Director of the Centre for Other Worlds at the Lusófona University in Lisbon. She is also a founding member of Decolonising Design.

Edna Bonhomme is a historian of science, art worker, lecturer, and writer. She earned her PhD in the history of science from Princeton University and a Master of Public Health from Columbia University. Working with sound, text, and archives, Edna explores contagion, epidemics, and toxicity through decolonial practices and African diaspora worldmaking. A central question of her work asks: What makes people sick? Her practices trouble how people perceive modern plagues, and how they try to escape from them while also attending to the modalities of care that shape the possibility for repair. Her project "Cartographies of Care" is part of her long-term research-project based on interviews and media representation of African diasporic health and healing in Germany. Some of her critical multimedia projects have been featured at Haus Kulturen der Welt, alpha nova galerie futura, and the Austrian Academy of Women Artists, Galerie im Turm, Kunstverein Hildesheim, and Digital Prater Gallery. She has written for Aljazeera, The Atlantic, The Baffler, The Guardian, The Nation, Africa is a Country, The New Republic, ISIS History of Science Journal, Journal for North African Studies, Public Books, and other publications. She lives in Berlin, Germany.

The project and exhibition is generously supported by:

Bikubenfonden
Statens Kunstfond
København Kommune, Rådet for Visuel Kunst
MARI KANTER arkitekter
Decor Farver
faustlight
Flügger farver
STARK
Kvindernes Bygning

ARIEL at TALK TOWN 2021

For this year's TALK TOWN ARIEL presents the event “Art and Solidarity”, where the artists Yvette Brackman and Bettina Camilla Vestergaard will open a conversation about equity and solidarity in the Danish art environment. In interaction with two invited guests, visual artist Michelle Eistrup and art historian, Rune Finseth, they will reflect upon possible structural changes that deals with both direct and indirect discrimination.

The conversation will take place on Thursday May 20, 1.30pm at Union, Nørre Allé 7, Copenhagen N.

Biographies:

Rune Finseth, MA in Art History, University of Copenhagen. Editor of the art history research journal Perspective Journal and has a four-year research project at the National Gallery of Denmark about the Renaissance artist Fra Bartolommeo (1472-1517) supported by Novo Nordisk Foundation.

Michelle Eistrup is a visual artist, arts producer, and instigator of artistic collaboration who lives in Copenhagen, Denmark. Michelle's art incorporates themes of identity, corporeality, faith, memory, and post-colonialism, where her transnational background (Danish, Jamaican, American) is sometimes a point of departure. She traverses varied artistic expressions that include photography, drawing, video, sound, and performance.  She is co-editor of 3 Volume publication Bridging Art and Text, 2017.

Yvette Brackman makes sculpture, performance and text to create works of art that examine the body's relationship to space and memory. Brackman is represented in several public collections, including the National Gallery of Denmark and was professor and head of the School of Wall and Space at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts.

Bettina Camilla Vestergaard works with photography in the expanded field including text, sound and performance. Her works of art focus on specific places, memory and representation and bring together different voices and image regimes in visual, spatial and written narratives. Vestergaard has exhibited and published in Denmark and abroad, is represented in the collection of the Danish Arts Foundation and has been a member of board of directors - Copenhagen Visual Arts Commitee.

See the full program at: www.talktown.dk

For this event, the associated literature and other matter has been selected by Eglė Budvytytė, who will guide the reading and introduce the full material, which has shaped the vocalisation of the song lyrics in the sound piece Songs From The Compost: Mutating Bodies, Imploding Stars. The literature will be made available at the reading. It will not be necessary to read in advance.

Eglė Budvytytė has also kindly let her e-publication Songs From the Compost, containg lyrics and a text by Amelia Groom available. You may access it through this link or by flowcode in the vindow at the exhibition platform.

https://cdn.flowcode.com/prodassets/songs_from_the_compost.pdf?ts=1616012356467356725

ARI. Readings is a series of events, oriented towards literature as communication and a vital part of artists’ research. The literature is selected by artists and guest curators from ARIEL’s exhibition program, so to assemble a parallel publicly accessible archive; ARIEL ARCHIVE.

LITERATURE:

Liliths brood (Xenogenesis series) by Octavia E Butler

Symbiotic planet by Lynn Margulis

Slow Down Fast, a Toda Raja by Camila Marambio and Cecilia Vicuna

An Apartment on Uranus by Paul Preciado

ARI. Readings Songs From The Compost wass held Sunday March 21st from 4-6pm on ZOOM

To access material from this reading please write us : arielfeminisms@gmail.com

VIEWING AT HOME: Buenos días mujeres

Over three days, the 19th, 20th and 21th of February, ARIEL offered the opportunity to have a private viewing of the video work Buenos días mujeres by Val Lee, our current exhibition, guest curated by Vernacular Institute, led by Jo Ying Peng, right here on our website.

In Buenos días mujeres two strangers, M and A, encounter each other in different sites around Escandón in Mexico City following ‘action scripts’ that designate their journey and reflect on the issue of femicide. Between auto-cinema and auto-documentary, Buenos días mujeres is designed beforehand, but played out in the absence of the director. Confronted with several scenarios and sets, the main characters in the film interpret the narrative as if on auto-pilot, while the photographers document their actions, freezing the specific time, and charting a path for future viewers.

The video was available for streaming on our website from 12 noon on Friday 19th to midnight on Sunday 21th of February.

We acknowledge that it is important to stay at home and limit any unnecessary travel – even within Denmark, and therefore we want to share the video work Buenos días mujeres with the Danish public and an online audience around the world.

ACCOMPANYING TEXT – LETTER TO VAL

The following text to accompany the screening at home of Buenos días mujeres by Val Lee, is written by our guest curator Jo Ying Peng from Vernacular Institute.

"Dear Val,

I saw Raúl. I saw him the other day holding his baby juggling on the usual junction, as he does on a daily basis. This condition of encounter is utterly different. Not at all as if I told you ‘Hey I bumped into Gina around the conner yesterday' or ‘Guess what? Last weekend, I saw Beth at asmall dinner.’ Because who I am talking about here is Raúl, a man and his family earning a living by juggling on the crossroad between Av. Revolucíon and Av. Benjamín Franklin. For a while, after the pandemic began, I noticed that Raúl and his family seemed to have disappeared. Once I mentioned it but you didn’t write back. I assumed you didn’t know what to say. Maybe the words I left hanging were quite negative. Perhaps the lockdown magnified the uncertainties. Many worst-case scenarios could be imagined.

‘Qué tal, Raúl?’ I had to shout with my highest volume when spotting him out there from the car. He was hovering in the car lines to perform for the rewards. The transient moment of red light is in charge of the family’s daily income. I immediately rolled down the window to get his attention, even took off my mask just to be sure that he could recognize me. I didn’t know how much time the traffic light would allow us to greet one another. I waved vigorously with whatever note I held in hand. 20 pesos? Or 50? I couldn’t remember. Time was running out for me and for him. Every second was so precious during the traffic jam. How many drivers would like to pass him some change within 52 seconds of wait? Actually, I didn’t see any hands retracting out. Finally, Raúl saw me. He ran toward the open window with a big smile on his clown makeup that had run from sweat. When he brought his baby in front of me, she laughed so brightly in his arm, just for a moment, we were so close and the little thing nearly kissed my face. ‘Adiós!’ We must say goodbye hastily due to the change of the light. How many seconds were held? 5 or 8? Probably as short as the scene in which Raúl appears in Buenos días mujeres. Then I realized that I might not see them again. A couple of days later, I would move to a different area so that junction would no longer be a routine of my day.

Juggling. The crossroad. Raúl and his family. The intersection seems to have converted into a disabling space, a place that carries the excess products of social classes. The neighborhood landscape became the threshold that I intended to traverse but… Ever again, I questioned myself: once crossed the border, are there responsibilities I am meant to take?

Back in 2019 while we were casting for the filming, Raúl refused many times to come for rehearsals in my house that was only a few hundred meters from the crossroad. His wife stopped him from coming as she doubted our motivation and was afraid this casting invitation could possibly be the other advertisement of human trafficking. After several negotiations on the roadside, our project manager Beth returned with frustration. I understood that she didn’t want to be the one that puts others at ‘the feeling of’ risk. Indeed, as you ever wrote ‘Every space offers time and interest to its members and provides a world for them. The term “house” can inspire multi-faceted images.’ However, my house has become the possible locale of murder in the suspicions of others.

The free will of social deprivation cannot be expressed in an instant, effective and authentic manner. The people subject to it are those who are not able to control their own destiny, nor have ability to act without constraint. The bottom line of their liberty is that they are not adjacent to any degrees of freedom-whether it is freedom of speech or freedom of choice. Is their mere existence a symbol of inequality? Could it be said that, in our everyday life, they are belonging to the victimized group?

Raúl appeared 40 minutes late on the day of the shoot. I couldn’t guarantee any solution for the waiting film crew, only the hope of being trusted. It seems very unfair in this deal: for him, it is a gamble of life; but, for me, it is merely the cost of the filming production. What we paid for our exchange can never be equally calculated.

Warmly, Jo

Feb, 2021, CDMX"

The literature for this event is selected by guest curator Jo Ying Peng from Vernacular Institute. Peng will lead this reading session with a special focus on writing practices through themes dealing with gender and violence.

On the basis of the exhibition Buenos días mujeres, Peng will do a performative reading for the circle, which is based on Killing La Malinche, 2017, a project by Taiwanese artist Chang Wen Hsuan, based on research around the well-known figure, La Malinche, and the postcolonial histories associated with this figure seen in a Latin American-Mexican context.

ARI. Readings is a series of events oriented towards literature as communication and a vital part of artists’ research. The literature is selected by artists and guest curators from ARIEL’s exhibition program, so to assemble a parallel publicly accessible archive; ARIEL ARCHIVE.

The literature will be made available at the reading. It is not necessary to read in advance.

Literature:

Chang Wen Hsuan - Killing La Malinche

Eduardo Galeano - Mujeres

Sayak Valencia - Gore Capitalism. Semiotext(e)

Sergio González Rodríguez - The Femicide Machine. Semiotext(e)

Susana Vargas - The Little Old Lady Killer. NYU press

Susana Vargas - Mujercitos. Editorial RM

ARI. Readings 7# Buenos días mujeres is held Saturday December 12th from 4-6pm on ZOOM

Please write us to sign-up beforehand: arielfeminisms@gmail.com

The exhibition Io Lib. by Marie Kølbæk Iversen features Gravitational Shift—a choral work reflecting on the transformative and liberating potentialities of collectivity in the face of trauma. Gravitational Shift is an ongoing choral project composed by electroacoustic composer and classical singer Katinka Fogh Vindelev in collaboration with Marie Kølbæk Iversen. Functioning as a participatory work and performance piece, Gravitational Shift centers around the collective voicing of women’s non-verbal birthing sounds that have been time-stretched and transcribed for the composition.

With the presentation of Gravitational Shift at ARIEL, Fogh Vindelev and Kølbæk Iversen extend an open and ongoing invitation to engage with the project by submitting sound recordings of your own childbirth or by participating in one or both of the two choral workshops and/or the performance on November 29 2020.

As part of the participatory choral project, Gravitational Shift, there will be two workshops and a performance. All the events will be held at- or in front of the Women´s Building and will be led by Kølbæk Iversen and Fogh Vindelev.

The events are free and open for all voices.

Due to covid-19 we have limited space to attend the two workshops and it is necessary to sign-up beforehand: arielfeminisms@gmail.com.

Biography: Katinka Fogh Vindelev is a Danish classically trained soprano, performer and composer.Katinka’s work is grounded in extensive voice training, a primary source for exploring new hybrids of compositional and performative territories.

GRAVITATIONAL SHIFT; CHOIR-WORKSHOPS

Wednesday October 28th from 5-6.30 pm

Wednesday November 25th from 5-6.30 pm

PERFORMANCE OF GRAVITATIONAL SHIFT:

Sunday November 29th at 4 pm, 5pm, and at 6pm.

UPDATE COVID regulations for Gravitational Shift performance:

Gravitational Shift is conceived as a public choral project, and its performance as involving the audiences, who are invited to join in the singing. However, in light of the current pandemic and the rising contamination rates, we have to reduce the number of audiences, and we therefore ask you to sign up for one or more of three 30mins sessions at 4pm, 5pm, or 6pm. We will be sure to keep a two-metres distance at all times and to sing with visors and/or face masks.

Additionally, it will be possible to listen to the performances via Zoom.

It is possible to participate in more than one session, and the performances will change for every instantiation, which combines collective singing with vocal performances by soprano soloist Nina Brewer, and the artists behind the piece, Katinka Fogh Vindelev and Marie Kølbæk Iversen.

The performances will take place in the foyer of Kvindernes Bygning, Niels Hemmingsens Gade 8-11. The doors to the street will be left ajar thus allowing passers-bys to eavesdrop on the singing without however entering, or interfering with, the safe space of the choir.

At 4pm we welcome 13 participants to sing with us.

At 5pm we welcome 7 participants to sing with us.

At 6pm we welcome 3 participants to sing with us.

To attend the performances, please sign up via this email before November 26 with an indication of which session(s) you are planning to participate in (4pm, 5pm, or 6pm, or via Zoom): arielfeminisms@gmail.com

_n_body crash launch

On the occasion of the liberatory singing of Gravitational Shift on November 29, the web-based work n_body crash will be launched via Kvadrat’s website.The work is commissioned by Kvadrat and developed in collaboration with South into North as an independent extension of the exhibition Io Lib. at ARIEL. Featuring the exhibition’s centre piece, the astrophysical simulation Liber, n_body crash expands its scope by translating the simulation’s underlying python code into binary—Io's unlikely namesake: zeros and ones, 0/1, O/I, OI, IO, Io—thus enabling the moon to process her liberation from the gravitational pull of Jupiter.

Photo: Gravitational Shift. Performance at Henie Onstad Konstsenter.

For this event the literature and other matter has been selected by Marie Kølbæk Iversen, who will guide the reading and introduce texts related to her ongoing Io/I-project (2015-).

ARI. Readings is a series of events oriented towards literature as communication and a vital part of artists’ research. The literature is selected by artists and guest curators from ARIEL’s exhibition program, so to assemble a parallel publicly accessible archive; ARIEL ARCHIVE.

The literature will be made available at the reading. It is not necessary to read in advance.

LITERATURE:

Peter C. Reynolds - Stealing the Fire: The Atomic Bomb As Symbolic Body

Galileo Galilei - Sidereus Nuncius

Aeschylos - Prometheus Bound

Sadie Plant - Zeros + Ones : digital women + the new technoculture

ARI. Readings 6# Io Lib. is held Tuesday October 20th from 5-7pm at Kvindernes Bygning.

Due to covid-19 we have limited space to attend the two workshops and it is necessary to sign-up beforehand: arielfeminisms@gmail.com

Join us for an online conversation and reading with visual artist Jen Liu. Liu will read from the publication A Better Life For The Workers, originally an internal training manual for Hong Kong-based NGO Worker Empowerment's education programme for workers in Shenzhen. More widely published in 2012, the manual comprises of two volumes that describe and analyze the psychological, political, and legal issues shaping industrial work life in modern China. A Better Life For The Workers is translated from Chinese to English by Jen Liu and her mother. For this conversation Liu will elaborate on her practice.

This talk is hosted by Alt_Cph 2020 Biennale; Patterns in Resistance curated by Laboratory for Aesthetics and Ecology.

Free event.

Online registration: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_bNVYKiEGSsOGjq0PqlNq0g

PATTERNS IN RESISTANCE
Patterns in Resistance is the 2020 iteration of the art biennial Alt_Cph, hosted by Fabrikken for Kunst og Design. The biennial unfolds within messy knots between crafts and technologies, between privilege and histories of resistance, between care and community. Patterns in Resistance is curated by Laboratory for Aesthetics and Ecology

ALT_CPH

Alt_Cph is an independent biennial gathering selected institutional partners, artists and contemporary artist-run and alternative exhibition spaces across Europe. Each time, a new team curates the biennial and involves its audience in the pertinent questions of the present.

Our first writing workshop – a workshop on how to write a text with several hands, from one person to the other and back. The workshop consisted of collaborative writing exercises, linked to the performance "Will you feel comfortable in my corner?". The workshop tried to answer the question "Will you feel comfortable in someone else's corner?". Making a link in between people's writing and sense of self. The first question that comes to mind is; what is this corner you're talking about? The workshop dealt with answering this question and many others. The goal was to write, collaborate, and share.

From the collaborative writing workshop part of the materiale will form a piece which will be exhibited in the installation "Will you feel comfortable in my corner?" and be featured on ARIEL´s website. The event was led by Ndayé Kouagou and took place at The Women’s Building (Kvindernes Bygning).

For this event the literature and other material has been selected by Ndayé Koaugou, who guided the reading session and introduced texts from his publishing project, Young Black Romantics (YBR).

LITERATURE:

Hanne Lippard - This embodiment

Samuel Beckett - Molloy

A selection of publications by Young Black Romantics (YBR)

ARI. Readings is a series of events oriented towards literature as communication and a vital part of artists’ research. The literature selected including the pubication from YBR form a part of our ongoing project; ARIEL ARCHIVE, and is publicly accessible upon request.

For this event the literature has been selected by Jen Liu.
Part of the voiceover in Jen Liu's work Gold Loop (Triad), 2020, stems from the publication A Better Life For The Workers, originally an internal training manual for Hong Kong-based NGO Worker Empowerment's education programme for workers in Shenzhen. More widely published in 2012, the manual is comprised of two volumes that describe and analyze the psychological, political, and legal issues shaping industrial work life in modern China. A Better Life For The Workers is translated from Chinese to English by Jen Liu and her mother, and will be the primary literature for this ARI. Readings 4#: Gold Loop (Triad), 2020.

LITERATURE:
A BETTER LIFE FOR THE WORKERS
(Voice-over script from; Gold Loop (Triad), 2020)

The literature was selected by FCNN and, with contributions from their collaborators Abdul Dube og Aysha Amin, they guided a reading session with a special focus on feminist archiving.

LITERATURE:
NAWAL EL SAADAWI - WOMEN AT POINT ZERO
RENI EDDO-LODGE - WHY I'M NO LONGER TALKING TO WHITE PEOPLE ABOUT RACE
SARA AHMED - THE CULTURAL POLITICS OF EMOTION
TONI MORRISON - THE SOURCE OF SELF-REGARD
HOURIA BOUTELDJA - WHITES, JEWS, AND US
SHAHRNUSH PASIPUR - KVINDER UDEN MÆND

Aysha Amin is the founder of Andromeda in Gellerup, a local-driven art&culture space and Smag a la Gellerup, a food cooperative based on local resources and reclaiming city branding. She is also one of the curators of Aarhus architecture festival and works within the fields of community / architecture, art / activism, researching and documenting the social and physical changes of housing areas, such as Gellerup where she was born and raised.

Abdul Dube, born in South Africa lives and works in Aarhus, Denmark. He is an artist and illustrator working with a wide range of medias, interested in visual facilitation, hosting conversational processes, and creating space for dialogue and creativity.

For this event the literature is selected by Astrid Svangren, and the artist will be present, guiding the reading group. Pdfs´ of the reading material will be made available on the eventpage. The reading material will since enter into ARIEL’s physical and digital accessible archive.

LITERATURE:

HELENE CIXOUS - THE LAUGH OF THE MEDUSA

KAREN BLIXEN - THE MONKEY (SEVEN GOTHIC TALES)

SAPPHO - IF NOT, WINTER

I know she is light and faithless [..] is the second exhibition in ARIELs two-year exhibition cycle and a new commission for ARIEL. Taking up the whole exhibition space, this new commision work to further explore Astrid Svangren’s ongoing enquiry into an expanded painting practice and its fluid yet fraught relationship to the wanting to be other - to be seen, felt, vocalized and experienced as other.

Svangren (f. 1972, Göteborg) lives and works in Copenhagen. She is educated from Konsthögskolan in Malmö in 1998 and is represented by Galleri Christian Andersen, Copenhagen, and Tracy Williams, New York.

The literature for this event has been selected by Mathilde Carbel, and is a part of the exhibition project Curtain Drop made as a new commision for ARIEL. For the event Carbel will be in conversation with scriptwriter Nan Moore, together with the participants they will take a closer look at the selected reading material. The reading matter will enter into Ari. Readings’ physical and digital accessible archive.

LITERATURE:
ANNE CARSON - CONTEMPT
MOYRA DAVY - BLUETS
MARIA IRENE FORNES – MUD
CLARICE LISPECTOR - THE WATERS OF THE WORLD
ELAINE MAY - NOT ENOUGH ROPE
KARIN MICHAELIS - OVER AL FORSTAND
DOROTHY PARKER – ENOUGH ROPE
KATE ZAMBRENO - HEROINES