“Dissident Publics: Future Artefacts of Queer Methodologies” is a collective critical investigation. It is a co-creation project that aims at uncovering the social and spatial potentials of public space when seen from queer and intersectional feminist perspectives.
We worked in a transdisciplinary manner to collectively define tools and methods that reclaim agency over our social and constructed environments. Using speculative prototypes we formulate the possibility of futures where our queer identities, bodies, stories, and knowledge actively take part in the shaping of our environment. This is how we stand against the injustice and violence inherent in a cisheteronormative capitalist patriarchal regime.
Co-created with Léa Brami, Mahé Cordier-Jouanne, Lexie Owen, Liene Pavlovska, and Jan Trinh. Co-curated by Exutoire (Bui Quy Son and Paul-Antoine Lucas) and NOGOODS (Danja Burchard and Maike Statz).
The whole programme at ROM for kunst og arkitektur
The project was realized in 5 stages.
The first stage was the curatorial workshop between Exutoire and NOGOODS in January 2022 at ROM for kunst og arkitektur in Oslo.
ROM Studio (22–26 August 2022, Oslo) marks the beginning of the co-creation process of “Dissident Publics”. Combining performative research and a 2 day seminar, the studio kick-started the process-based investigation into Dissident Publics.
EVENING TALKS
Tuesday 23 August, 17:00 – 19:00
at ROM for kunst og arkitektur
17:00 – 18:00: “The Labour of Memory” with Eliot Moleba
18:00 – 19:00: “Performative Appropriations for Bodies in Space and Architecture” with Saúl García-López aka La Saula
SEMINAR
Friday 26 August, 09:00 – 17:00
at ROM for kunst og arkitektur and online
09:00 – 09:15: Coffee & introduction
09:15 – 10:30: “For the Public Good?” with María Mazzanti
10:45 – 12:15: “Somatic Fictions and Transmaterial Realities” with Teo Ala-Ruona
12:15 – 13:15 : Lunch
13:15 – 14:45: “Mapping Multi-Scale Experiences in the Urban Fabric: A Visual Exercise on Disclosing Spatial Dissidence” with Jean Makhlouta
15:00 – 16:30: “Queer Commons: The Three Spheres” with Alexander Auris
16:30 – 17:00: Closing session
17:00 – 19:00: Social gathering
NOGOODS Studio (7–11 November 2022, Bergen) marks the third phase of the co-creation process of “Dissident Publics”, assembling the team of nine curators, artists and architects for a second week-long program of workshops, talks and open studio visits.
OPENING EVENING LECTURE
in collaboration with the Bergen School of Architecture (BAS)
Wednesday 9 November 2022, starting at 18:30 (Bar opens at 18:00) at the BAS Auditorium, Sandviksboder 59–61a, 5035 Bergen
“On Performative Spatialities” with Nagy Makhlouf.
Dissident Publics x NOGOODS
Friday 11 November 2022, starting at 16:00
at NOGOODS studio+project space, Kong Oscars gate 45, 5017 Bergen.
Time for the project group to share and discuss the productions from the different workshops (or “prototyping sessions”) throughout the week with the larger public.
The exhibition + collaborative public programme at ROM for kunst og arkitektur.
Making Public Utopias
1.09.2023 Rom for kunst og arkitektur
Join us for a roundtable on collectivity, critical practices and reclaiming space.
From public space to the art institution, we will discuss how to create alternative futures for societies through political engagement, civil participation, queerness, and dissidence.
As a closing event and fifth stage of the Dissident Publics programme (2022–2023), co-curators Maike Statz, Danja Burchard and Bui Quy Son (Exutoire) invite architect-urbanist-activist Itziar González Virós and Bergen Kunsthall’s live programme curator Nora Swantje Almes to reflect on their work and practice. The presentations will be followed by a conversation moderated by Victoria Bugge Øye, curator in architecture at Nasjonalmuseet.
