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Dyptichon — Occupy the Unspoken (2021) by Danja Burchard
Series of performative psycho-pseudo-philosophical speculative manuals that conceptualize micro-phenomena such as The ALMOST or The Space Between The Lines as performative practices programmed by thought.
The ALMOST (2020) published in different states by BIT Teatergarasjen (Bergen), Speakers Speakers, No. 4 ‘Failure’ (Bergen), and as part of the Bregenz Performance Biennale (Bregenz). SBTL — The Space Between the Lines (2021) was published as work-in-progress by WEAK Magazin (Berlin).

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table, birch ply (2021) by Maike Statz (AUS)
Poster by Maike Statz with text combining the ongoing research of Maike Statz and Danja Burchard. Font: Calyces Inc. by ↗︎ Studio Charlotte Rohde provided free for feminist projects.

Published by Karmaklubb* and IGWTLI publishing (WHEREVER) in association with the ‘Perfection/Speculation’ (PRAKSIS Residency 18) (NOR/GBR) (2020–2021) and supported by Hordaland kunstsenter (NOR). Printed by Pamflett (NOR) in the occasion of Bergen Art Book Fair 8, June 2021. Print master: Ann-Kristin Stølan (NOR). Our second collaboration with Danja and Maike, following up ↗︎ the beautiful double session, 14 May 2021 at 14 CEST.

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Karmaklubb* is also a publishing platform, the IGWTLI publishing (WHEREVER), established in 2018, that exists as essays, letters and gifts, transcripts, but also listening sets, podcasts, and an archive of ‘thought & pleasure’ — and new forms constantly to be explored. Critical reflections as well as pure joi [sic!], anchored in the Karmaklubb* morphing and transcending practice with people being part of the travel. Danja and Maike are part of that family. During the next years a series of these encounters on hybrid spaces — from art institutions to club spheres — crossing communities, queerness, and genders in flux will be published as an extension of Karmaklubb*, aiming to create a platform for an open feminist, queer discourse. A selection of these texts will be assembled in an anthology, hopefully during 2022.

Maike Statz (left-justified) & Danja Burchard (right-justified):

‘I have an ongoing fascination with tables, specifically kitchen and dining room tables. I’m occupied with these tables not only as design objects but as significanct, philosophically and pragmatically, in feminist and queer discourse. The table as an object in the family home is loaded with generational and hetenormative expectation. Conversely the table is a structure for support, discussion and meeting. It has been an important site for many feminist practices, as considered in Feminist Practices: Writing Around the Kitchen Table (2017) by Hélène Frichot, Katja Grillner and Julieanna Preston. It provides a surface which connects individuals, suggesting a point of exchange and equality, but has to be prefaced by an invitation. Sitting with Sara Ahmed’s writing on tables in Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others’ (2016) I wonder what does queer home-making look like? Queer nesting? Alongside these questions are thoughts from Danja Burchard about lines as active divisions, definitions, paths, borders, as a place of meeting the other.’