Forelesning
Open Forum: Mary Coble – Performing Queer Resistance
Open Forum are happy to introduce a talk with professor Mary Coble, a gender queer artist and educator at Valand Art Academy, she will discuss queer strategies of resistance through artistic practice and activism.
Time: Monday, November 19 at 19.00. Student beer and free soup from 18.00. Khartoum is open 17.00–01.00.
Place: Khartoum Contemporary Art Center, Bernt Akers Gate 17.
Performing Queer Resistance
A talk with Mary Coble
Thinking along with the social, artistic and political potential of queer performance art.
social (in) justice
mis (communication)
(in) action
in (ex) clusion
(sub) cultural mainstreaming
Mary Coble is a gender queer artist and educator at Valand Art Academy. The talk will include examples from Coble’s current research project Gestures of Defiance, which looks at symbols of protests such as the raised fist, as well as uses of tactical frivolity (such as glitter bombing or drag). Through live work and multimedia installations - including photography, video, sound and sculpture - Coble aims to manifest problems of bodily, societal and symbolic navigation particularly focusing on issues of injustice and normative boundaries. Recurrent themes in Coble’s work revolve around queer politics, poetics and histories, and the projects are often site-specific, research-based and - from time to time – collective and participatory.
Open Forum is a student run initiative from the Academy of Fine Art in Oslo that runs at Khartoum Contemporary Art Center (KCAC) every other Monday night. Open Forum seeks to create a meaningful exchange of ideas and a dynamic space for dialogue and debate between art students, artists and others. The talks are structured around different topics, from those closer to artistic and curatorial practices to other of social and political relevance.