This event will be accessible online over Zoom by clicking here during the event (Passcode: 520128)
This artists’ book arises from collective work conducted in March 2022 during PRAKSIS’s residency 21, Nature Scribbles and Flesh Reads. The residents were artists Kajsa Dahlberg, Miriam Döring, Annike Flo, Sive Hamilton Helle, Eli Maria Lundgaard, malatsion, Lexie Owen, Rebekka Sæter and Ylva Westerlund.
The residency investigated the ways that the human body, constantly entangled as it is with the other stuff of the world, serves as a measure of the health of the whole environment. The residents’ research focused on the idea of porosity: a softening of the boundaries between human and non-human bodies and the visible and invisible elements that surround them.
Key research questions included: What is an environmentally “normal” body? How is that norm established, and by whom? Might non-normative experiences of heightened sensitivity offer opportunities to better understand our environment? How is toxicity defined: at what point do we recognize something as toxic? In precarious times, how can relationships of care be fostered between human and non-human bodies?
This publication, containing reflections, proposals, artworks, documentation and traces of collective thinking processes, charts the residents’ responses to these questions.
During this launch event the artists will present the book, material from it, and thinking behind it. The launch will also be accessible online over Zoom by clicking here during the event (Passcode: 520128).
The book is now available in the PRAKSIS webshop for 250 NOK and will be sold at a special launch price on Monday, both at the event and online. Click here to order your copy.
PRAKSIS residency 21, Nature Scribbles and Flesh Reads was developed with Kajsa Dahlberg in collaboration with Index – The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation. It was supported by Arts Council Norway, City of Oslo, The Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm, The Swedish Arts Grants Committee and Goethe Insitut Norge.
