The pre-printed version of McKenzie Wark’s text Deserters’ Dance (2024), originally commissioned by PRAKSIS, Dilettante Army, Karmaklubb* and IGWTLI publishing / Tine Semb for the ↗︎ ‘PRAKSIS Presents' (#11) x Dilettante Army special issue: Party as Form that proposes parties—charged spaces full of potential—as an art form or medium. ↗︎ Read it here. Printed with artwork on the occasion of the ↗︎ week-long festival with Wark, taking place at many different locations in Oslo, November 2025.

Preface by Karmaklubb*

Since 2018, Karmaklubb* has organized several international discursive events, screenings, artist presentations, facilitated artistic and theoretical research as well as published texts focusing on spaces—physical, virtual, hybrid—that allows senses of freedom; where hierarchies dissolve and categories vanish, for something else to form. There are many keys: Art can be one, clubbing too, or writing. Our first encounter was with American artist Tony Cokes’ video work Mikrohaus, or the black atlantic? (2018), while one of the most recent outcomes: a week-long festival with Australian thinker and writer McKenzie Wark, taking place at Trekanten, Det Norske Teatret, and MUNCH, followed by a celebration at Black Box teater, Oslo.
Later on, a series of essays, interviews, and other written encounters on hybrid spaces—from art institutions to club spheres—crossing communities, queer perspectives, and gender(s) in flux will be published as an extension of the Karmaklubb* ‘Talks & screenings (on various forms of queerness)’ programme, launched fall 2018. We aim to make these texts available through different channels, as co-publications, limited edition printed drafts, as well as published in the online archive of Karmaklubb*—sometimes as interactive versions—later to be assembled in an anthology published by Karmaklubb* and IGWTLI publishing. This text is among those. Enjoy.