Exhibition: Moon in your Mouth
26 May – 25 June
UKS – (Unge Kunstneres Samfund / Young Artists’ Society)
Curated by Max Hannus and presenting the works of artists Thora Dolven Balke, Tarek Lakhrissi and Inari Sandell, Moon in your Mouth considers consent, intimacy and emotional labour in the realm of exhibition making.
Thinking of consent in artist-curator relationships, Hannus asks how to think about consent as a methodological tool, and how to host or mediate different agencies in relation to the presentation of artistic work. Moon in your Mouth looks at processes of desire and intimacy in relation to questions of access. If we think of intimacy as seeing and being seen, what is required for the seeing to take place: how does one access intimacy?
I CONSENT – Summer School
30 May – 1 June
How does it change our ways of living and working together, if we bring questions of consent, complaint and intimacy to the forefront?
Growing from the exhibition Moon in your Mouth, UKS (Unge Kunstneres Samfund / Young Artists’ Society), Bedside Productions and Frame Contemporary Art Finland come together to co-host I CONSENT, a three-day summer school in Oslo from 30 May to 1 June 2023. Convening around consent, complaint and intimacy, this multi-day programme offers a tender environment to explore alternative, safe and loving ways of relating, particularly in the context of arts institutions and cultural production.
Taking place at UKS, the school supports a small cohort of 20 participants from across the art and cultural sectors – including hosts, contributors, guests and attendees – to learn alongside one another for three days. As part of a shared responsibility of building a safe and intimate space participants are asked to commit to the full three days. An evening programme at UKS and Kunstnernes Hus is open to everyone.
I CONSENT is curated by Yvonne Billimore, Jussi Koitela and Miriam Wistreich. Session hosts include feminist pornographic film production collective Bedside Productions, curator Max Hannus, artist and activist Raju Rage, and artist Vishnu Vardhani, with others to be announced.
Read more about the exhibition and the summer school on Frame’s website.
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The exhibition Moon in your Mouth and the accompanying I CONSENT—summer school are part of Frame’s public program Rehearsing Hospitalities 2023. The program is part of the EU-funded project Islands of Kinship: A Collective Manual for Sustainable and Inclusive Art Institutions. The exhibition is suppoerted by The Finnish-Norwegian Cultural Institute (FINNO). The summer school is supported by Nordic Culture Point, Kulturfonden för Finland och Norge and Fritt Ord.