August Party at Preus Museum and Artilleriverkstedet! / QUEERING THE MUSEUM PT. 3.2

— 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 artistic methodologies as tools for interventions creating spaces of alternative speculation and presence — architectures of freedom and perhaps even parallel societies, all through a queer lens. This Friday night we fill Artilleriverkstedet in Horten — a party within historical frames. Perhaps even rewriting history, just a bit. We will also bring our own purple gem, the ale, ↗︎ A Kind of Magic.

Duo of beauties: Cassie Brødskive & Frida Marida, once more.

Cassie Brødskive and carnation. Photo by Paulina Tamara.

Glorious photos in album by Ingrid Aas for Preus Museum.

Timetable
17:00, ↗︎ Bus from Oslo Central Station, platform 19
18:30, Arrival at Preus Museum. Mingle and see ‘Over the Rainbow’?
19:30, Introduction Preus Museum and Hilde Herming, curator for ‘Over the Rainbow’, and Karmaklubb*
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.
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.

This is the third chapter of the Karmaklubb* ‘Queering the Museum’ investigations. More information about the exhibition and our contributions ↗︎ here. Event presentation by Preus Museum, ↗︎ here. Facebook event ↗︎ here. The programme is launching the ↗︎ Photography Day 2022, 27 August, with Paulina Tamara as main exhibitor. FInd a recent article in BLIKK (Bøyum, 26 August) ↗︎ here. *** DRAG, BURLESQUE, DANCE, AND JOY. Save the date! Please note that times are approximate, be early! Changes, pop-ups, and happy surprises will occur. 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. ***

All photos by Karmaklubb* unless marked otherwise.

This is Cassie Brødskive. Still from Cassie Brødskive & Frida Marida, *Queering the Museum — Preus* (2022). Part of the Karmaklubb* ‘Queering the Museum’ investigations. This work is made for the collaboration between Karmaklubb* and Preus Museum, national museum for photography. Produced by Preus Museum on the occasion of Queer Culture Year and the exhibition ‘Over the Rainbow’ / ‘Over regnbuen’, curator Hilde Herming. Courtesy of the artists, Karmaklubb*, Alex Benjamin, and Cloudberry. Preus Museum Collection 2022.

Endnotes

Established sometime around 2018, Karmaklubb* has for several years been investigating various architectures — physical as well as virtual, historical, archival — and how they can be challenged and tried out, potentially changed through a direct approach to the use and the presence of bodies in those spaces. ‘Queering the museum’ is an ongoing project (2019–) and one example of such hands-on-research, or perhaps field work, that deals directly with houses representing archives, collections, our perception of history and truth, in particular art museums. Among the ‘cases’ are the old and new Munch Museum / MUNCH, Oslo; KODE Art Museums and Composer Homes, Bergen; the National Museum of Norway, Oslo; and Preus Museum, Horten.

Collaborators