ANOTHER POSSIBLE INNER EXTERIOR MOMENT TO MOMENT NONLOCATION LOCATION 

Gathering works by three contemporary artists, international and local, Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, Xenia Klein, and Paula Slav, whose work in different ways touch upon trans femininity and trans survival, the exhibition tries to re-imagine trans fem aesthetics, not as an identity category so much as it is a potentially open way of differentiating and undermining gendered categorisation. How can we open up other spaces, virtual and actual–other ways of feeling, encountering, and sensing? The exhibition gathers perceptual and (a)signifying means of working with transversal, intersectional and transfeminist organizing within and outside the arts, cutting across and working against cisnormative and transmisogynist conditions in which we’re often isolated even when we’re included. 

Curated by Andria Nyberg Forshage and Ruby Nilsson. 

Opening on May 5
International symposium May 12th with keynote speakers including Maxi Wallenhorst (Berlin), Vala T. Foltyn (Copenhagen), Dinis Machado (Stockholm) and Nat Raha (Edinburgh)
Performative intervention by Xenia Klein TBA

Graphic design by Mika Kastner.

Co-produced by Konsthall C. With support from Swedish Arts Council and IASPIS

* the title is a quote by and homage to the work of artist and trans/queer activist poet kari edwards (1954-2006) 

Opening party for ANOTHER POSSIBLE INNER EXTERIOR MOMENT TO MOMENT NONLOCATION LOCATION

20-00 @ Konsthall C, Cigarrvägen 14 123 57 Farsta

DJ-set by rip ME

Since it's a closed event, please fill in the form to attend the opening party: https://forms.gle/w1tMXg9RVSWcnsas6

Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley (b. 1995, London) is a Berlin/London-based artist. They received an BA from the Slade School of Fine Art, London in 2019. Brathwaite-Shirley works predominantly in animation, sound, performance, and video game development. Their practice focuses on intertwining lived experience with fiction to imaginatively retell the stories of Black Trans people. Danielle’s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions and performances at institutions such as Villa Arson, Nice (2023) Fact, liverpool (2022) David Kordansky, LA (2022) Project Arts Centre, Ireland (2022); Skänes konstförening, Malmö, Sweden (2022); Arebyte Gallery, London (2021); QUAD, Derby, England (2021); Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo (2021); Tate Modern, London (2020); Focal Point Gallery, London (2020); Science Gallery, London (2020); and MU Hybrid Art House, London (2020). Their work has been included in group exhibitions at institutions such as Julia Stoschek Foundation, Berlin (2022); Münchner Kammerspiele, Munich (2019); Les Urbaines, Lausanne (2019); and Barbican, London (2018).

Paula Slav/Damelva is a scandinavian multi-dimensional artist, a woman/weapon seduced and induced by technology. She worships Nothing and she who lives inside and outside of time. She is a conjurer of the musical predilection as Godill, she is also armed with prose, from typewriter to cyberspace. She is the moth in the machine, the daughter’s daughter, the sweet blood, the will to will. Her music and performance has been featured at the Royal Institute of Art and Cinema Queer in Stockholm, PLX festival, Queer Noise Fest Stockholm, Etown Queerfest, O.C.D Fest Føkk den køen in Oslo, Norway, and more. She has been a hostess, artist and organizer at several clubs, most notably Technobastun. She has collaborated with artists including HAJ300 and Makode Lindé. Her art and poetry was last exhibited at the pop-up gallery Last Sunset for Today. She created the music for the dance performance L’Après-midi D’une Faune (2022) by Dinis Machado at ZDB Lisbon and Weld in Stockholm.

Xenia Klein and Nausi Love is an artist sex worker duo consisting of the artist Xenia Klein and her sex worker alias Nausi Love. Together they have a BFA in Fine Arts from Konstfack and an MFA in Artistic Research from The Royal Academy of Art (KABK) in The Hague. Since early 2022 the duo has worked together full-time. Creating art and performances. Selling porn and sex. Their joint practice blur the border between one of the most tabooed works – that of the sex worker and whore–with one of the most praised and glorified works – that of the artist. They won the Young Talent Award at the Dutch Design Week 2022 for re-imagining the escort industry according to transfeminine creativity and experience, implementing the perspectives of design and art in radically new ways on areas of human life and society often overlooked by art and design–the escort industry consisting of everything between brothels and independent sex workers.

Andria Nyberg Forshage is a writer, poet, art worker, and independent researcher based in Stockholm. They are a contributing editor for Paletten Art Journal. She publishes essays, poetry, criticism, and experimental/artistic text, e.g. in The Lulu-Journal, Kontext, and Datableed, and has presented her research on trans aesthetics and queer political philosophy including at Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Royal Holloway Centre for Continental Philosophy, The Posthumanities Hub and the Eco- and Bioart Lab, Linköping University, Karlstad University, and the conference Trans*Studies at the University of Arizona. Recent projects include co-writing and dramaturgy for the performance fera (2023, dir. Ruby Nilsson) and work with Autostrada Biennial through CuratorLab.

Ruby Nilsson is a director, playwright and writer. Her work is about the construction of the liminal and the (trans)feminine, conducted at the intersection between visual art and performing arts. She is a recurring writer in Paletten Art Journal and her work has been shown at Reaktorhallen (Stockholm), Turteatern (Stockholm), Atalante (Gothenburg), Estrad Norr (Östersund) among others. Was last seen with the work fera, which was co-produced by Inkonst. Fera will also be shown during the autumn as part of GIBCA at Göteborgs Konsthall and Fylkingen in Stockholm.