Discussing possible futures, world building, body modification, utopias, dystopias, queering architectures and more!

You are invited to join a conversation with Danja Burchard (DE) and Maike Statz (AU) and residents of 'Perfection/Speculation' — Marte Aas, Jonathan Armour, Louis Alderson-Bythell, Trinley Dorje, Adam Peacock, Erika Stöckel, and Bobby Yu Shuk Pui.

PRAKSIS Residency 18, 'Perfection / Speculation' explores the connotations and ethics of genetic technologies. It has been developed with Adam Peacock and Danai Papadimitriou, in collaboration with Karmaklubb* and the Vigeland Museum.

This event is presented by Karmaklubb* in collaboration with PRAKSIS Residency 18.

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Maike Statz is an interior architect and artist educated in The Netherlands and Australia, now living in Bergen, Norway, working with writing and installation. Maike is invested in the influence of architecture on individuals and society, focusing on the relationship between gender, sexuality, and space, questioning how history is embedded in our various architectures and what power dynamics are at play. Recently Maike also introduced science fiction into their work, suggesting feminist science fiction is a literary genre through which the cultural constructions of race, class, sex, sexuality, and gender can be decoded. ‘What can we learn from spaces built through writing, in a context where reality is ruptured and re-imagined?’ Maike grasped our attention by these various opening approaches to how architectures are constructed and functioning, and even better: Suggesting methods of how to challenge those structures both on physical as well as philosophical levels. You may call it ‘hacking of disciplined reality’.

Danja Burchard, is an artist, dramaturg, creative producer, and researching mind, currently based in Bergen, Norway. We know Danja through common interests in non-binary thinking and perceptions of the world, challenging patriarchal structures — it be through imagination, investigating the gaps and glitches, in language, or physical gestures and interventions in various architectures. Recently we have been extremely fascinated by written/performative works such as 'The ALMOST' (2020) and 'The Space Between The Lines (SBTL)' (2020–2021, in development) looking at the different potentials of the ‘yet undefined’, also drawing parallels to concepts such as ‘failure’ and what is considered ‘successful’ behavior or achievements.
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Karmaklubb* is a celebration of good things. It is queer and nomadic by nature, doing clubbing, publishing (we like words), ‘thought and pleasure’ sessions at museums, bars, artist driven hubs, public spaces — wherever. And we are liquid. Probably the most active project of its kind in Scandinavia. https://karmaklubb.com/

The Vigeland Museum is devoted to Norway's most famous sculptor, Gustav Vigeland (1869–1943). It combines the curating of Vigeland’s heritage with the presentation of contemporary art. https://vigeland.museum.no/en