Welcome to a day of thought and pleasure in two chapters: ‘(Queer) activism — organising, hosting, creating visibility, and practicing queerness within club/art spheres and public spaces — Pt. 1: Local forces, but never isolated’

Participants: Maike Statz (NOGOODS; Dissident Publics), Eva Rowson (Bergen Kjøtt; as herself), Bertha Chan (Drastic Social), Nina Eriksson (artist), Comrades INC. (represented by Jennife and Lene), Tine Semb (Karmaklubb*). Moderator for the open conversation is Eva Rowson.

For this edition of METEOR, Karmaklubb* have inviting a group of artists, organisers, academic and activist voices to contribute to a series of presentations and open conversations during the festival. We consider this as part of an ongoing research practice of ‘thought and pleasure’ — a concept going back to the early Karmaklubb* in 2018. As we love when good things can thrive and develop, this means some of the individuals you’ll be able to get to know better, have been collaborators for years and part of several projects — talks, events, listening pieces, or written encounters — nationally as well as abroad. We hope these meetings will lay the grounds for future conversations. By intention we’ve focused strongly on practitioners within the vital local scene to presents their important work to an international audience.

Part of the METEOR’s ‘Feminist School’ programming. ↗︎ Find the METEOR event page here (in Norwegian). The presentations and the open conversation are held in English. We allow for a lot of breaks as well as come-and-go to the very fitting yellow installation by ↗︎ Fergus Tibbs. (↗︎ Although we recommend the whole lot of beauties!!!) Times (approximate): 12:00–15:00 *** ↗︎ THE CONVERSATION WILL BE STREAMED AT RADIO VERS LIBRE, SUNDAY, 26 NOVEMBER 2023 ***

Recommended tune for our participation in the ‘Feminist Futures’: Barker, ↗︎ Paradise Engineering (2019)

References (working on it)

• The film clip that Eva Rowson showed: ↗︎ ‘Octavia Butler: Science Future, Science Fiction’ (UCLA, 2002)
• Professor of Sociology, referred to by Eva Rowson: ↗︎ Akwugo Emejulu, “Crisis Politics and the Challenge of Intersectional Solidarity”, LSE Events, Sheikh Zayed Theatre, 31 January 2018.
• Maike Statz and the exhibition project ↗︎ Dissident Publics: Future Artefacts of Queer Methodologies (Exutoire & NOGOODS
  with Léa Brami, Mahé Cordier-Jouanne, Lexie Owen, Liene Pavlovska, and Jan Trinh) at ROM for kunst og arkitektur, Oslo,
  12 May–11 June 2023

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During week 42–43, the queer platform Karmaklubb* has joined forces with METEOR International Theatre Festival for the second time. Involving the local as well as national and international scene, Karmaklubb* will contribute to the programme with discoursive content such as a series of open conversations and ‘thought and pleasure’ sessions, film screenings, text launches, queer wine mingle and talks at Bergen Kjøtt, club content at ØSTRE, thought and pleasure at Bergen Kunsthall / Landmark, as well as the afternoon and night of the ‘Feminist School’ at Visningsrommet USF, Monday, 23 October. The programme is also part of the international network ↗︎ apap — FEMINIST FUTURES. Please find the full schedule ↗︎ online.

*** Inspirational track: ↗︎ Barker, Paradise Engineering (2019). ***