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QUI VIVE! - Live Program

13 September Oslo Kulturnatt: Launch of [VIDEO]KUNSTPLASS

28 September: Films and performance at Kunstplass For the exhibition series ”Qui Vive!”
HÆRK has curated the event titled ”Reverberation - Resonating Voices and Storytelling” as a response to the themes of QUI VIVE Part I. The programme consists of two short films RECLAMATION by Thirza Cuthand (11 min, 2018) and NUTSIGASSAT / TRANSLATIONS by Tinne Zenner (20 min, 2018) and a performance by the artist Elina Waage Mikalsen (image to the left).

Seminars in collaboration with Oslo World 2019

Wednesday 30 OCT 18.30-19.30 @Kunstplass
Feminism and art in post-apartheid South Africa

25 years has passed since South Africa introduced democracy, and Nelson Mandela was elected president and started the work on reconciliation and reconstruction. Developments in the country have been cumbersome and fatiguing, and Mandela’s goal of reconstruction and development has been successful to a limited extent. Corruption, violence, gender-based discrimination and xenophobia are some of the negative aspects that characterize South Africa today. Together with artist Berni Searle we want to look at current situation and the role of art in post-Apartheid South Africa.

Thursday 31 OCT. 18-19 @Kunstplass
Contemporary art in China - from a feminist and queer perspective
China generally experiences a setback in gender equality, and the country is ranked # 103 of 149 countries in The Global Gender Gap Report 2018. Female artists were invisible in Beijing’s art market and galleries in the 1990s, and it has been challenging for women to establish themselves as contemporary artists. Shi Tou has against all odds succeeded in becoming a recognized artist. The questions raised in this seminar are: Does the newer generation of female and queer artists have a better starting point and other possibilities? Is it room for politically active artists in 2019, 30 years after the protests and the dream of democracy were violently stopped at Tiananmen Square in Beijing? These questions and Shi Tou’s art will form the backdrop for a conversation between Shi Tou and Elisabeth L. Engebretsen at Kunstplass. Engebretsen is an Associate Professor at theUniversity of Stavanger (UiS) with expertise in queer, theory, gender issues and contemporary China.

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