f.eks. is
a roaming exhibition platform for contemporary art that seeks to generate
critical and speculative dialogues between audiences, artists, and broader
publics. f.eks. produces temporary art events that are
located in and around the urban spaces of Aalborg and the Northern Jutland region – activating architecture,
infrastructure, ecological sites, and public spaces through a series of live
art engagements. These include
performances, talks, workshops, readings, pop-ups, social installations,
screenings, and many other forms of interactive and ephemeral art making.
f.eks. is an award-winning, non-profit organization supported by the Danish Arts Foundation, Den Jyske Kunstfond, Augustinus Fonden, Det Obelske Familiefond, Ny Carlsbergfondet, Region Nordjyllands Kulturpulje, 15. Juni Fonden, Aalborg Kommune Kulturpulje, UMMK, Himmerland Boligforening, and Aalborg Kommunes Kunstfond as part of an ongoing artist-initiated program.
f.eks. is an award-winning, non-profit organization supported by the Danish Arts Foundation, Den Jyske Kunstfond, Augustinus Fonden, Det Obelske Familiefond, Ny Carlsbergfondet, Region Nordjyllands Kulturpulje, 15. Juni Fonden, Aalborg Kommune Kulturpulje, UMMK, Himmerland Boligforening, and Aalborg Kommunes Kunstfond as part of an ongoing artist-initiated program.
“Kinkurimba”
Kabila Kyowa Stephane, Joseph Chembe (Joe Sage), Luyando Muleya, Banji Chona, Scott William Raby & Rikke Ehlers Nilsson
Kabila Kyowa Stephane, Joseph Chembe (Joe Sage), Luyando Muleya, Banji Chona, Scott William Raby & Rikke Ehlers Nilsson
Kinkurimba is a socially-engaged pedagogical project initiated by Kabila Kyowa Stephane in collaboration with f.eks. and Livingstone Office for Contemporary Art (LoCA) featuring Joseph Chembe (Joe Sage), Luyando Muleya, Banji Chona, Scott William Raby, and Rikke Ehlers Nilsson.
With Kinkurimba, the collaboration has come together to prototype a new artistic educational infrastructure connecting Southern Africa and Northern Europe toward new cultural exchanges. This event will take place at Kunsten Museum of Modern Art’s Library to activate it as a site of educational production toward new agencies. By hosting an in-person and digital gathering as well as handing out a Kinkurimba poster as a collective artwork, the event serves as the initial public launching point for the project.
Kinkurimba seeks to highlight shared values that encourage experimental and critical approaches to art as a pedagogical and social infrastructure. More specifically, the project seeks to highlight ecological, non-commercial, and local cultural approaches to (art) education in Southern African contexts across Congo, Zambia, and Zimbabwe to put non-western and counter approaches into play alongside critical artistic pedagogy in Scandinavia. The term Kinkurimba derives from a trust-based economic exchange that is often used by Congolese people. It serves as an analogy to not only establish healthy collaborative relationships between the project partners, but also support the curiosity, dedication, and care needed for the establishment of new artistic educational exchanges that allow places to connect. This is also a part of the project’s aim to create transcontinental networks and new infrastructure spaces that redistribute cultural resources and knowledge in a more sustainable manner.
A special thank you to Kunsten Museum of Modern Art Aalborg and Anawana Haloba.
With Kinkurimba, the collaboration has come together to prototype a new artistic educational infrastructure connecting Southern Africa and Northern Europe toward new cultural exchanges. This event will take place at Kunsten Museum of Modern Art’s Library to activate it as a site of educational production toward new agencies. By hosting an in-person and digital gathering as well as handing out a Kinkurimba poster as a collective artwork, the event serves as the initial public launching point for the project.
Kinkurimba seeks to highlight shared values that encourage experimental and critical approaches to art as a pedagogical and social infrastructure. More specifically, the project seeks to highlight ecological, non-commercial, and local cultural approaches to (art) education in Southern African contexts across Congo, Zambia, and Zimbabwe to put non-western and counter approaches into play alongside critical artistic pedagogy in Scandinavia. The term Kinkurimba derives from a trust-based economic exchange that is often used by Congolese people. It serves as an analogy to not only establish healthy collaborative relationships between the project partners, but also support the curiosity, dedication, and care needed for the establishment of new artistic educational exchanges that allow places to connect. This is also a part of the project’s aim to create transcontinental networks and new infrastructure spaces that redistribute cultural resources and knowledge in a more sustainable manner.
A special thank you to Kunsten Museum of Modern Art Aalborg and Anawana Haloba.
Wednesday, October 30th:
Introducing Kinkurimba (Presentation & Discussion) from 5 - 7 pm
Kunsten Museum of Modern Art Aalborg (Kunsten Library)
Kong Christians Alle 50, 9000 Aalborg
Note: Regular museum admission applies (BKF and UKK members receive free admission). Kinkurimba poster will be free to collect during the event. The event will be held in English.
Introducing Kinkurimba (Presentation & Discussion) from 5 - 7 pm
Kunsten Museum of Modern Art Aalborg (Kunsten Library)
Kong Christians Alle 50, 9000 Aalborg
Note: Regular museum admission applies (BKF and UKK members receive free admission). Kinkurimba poster will be free to collect during the event. The event will be held in English.
Kabila Kyowa Stephane (born Dubie, 1993) is a Congolese curator, artistic practitioner and researcher working on the African continent. He recently completed a Master's degree in Curatorial Practice from the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Bergen (NO). A member of the International Committee for Museums and Collections of Modern Art (CIMAM), he collaborates with the Livingstone Office for Contemporary Art (LoCA) in Livingstone (ZM), and the Centre d´Art Waza in Lubumbashi (DRC). He is a consultant for Agency Kolkwen, co-founder of NidjeKonnexion, a support platform for young artists in Lubumbashi and a member of Another Roadmap of Arts Education Africa Cluster (ARAC) - a network of researchers and professionals studying history, politics, and possible alternative practices in the field of arts education. He is currently a Gerda Henkel Foundation provenance research fellow at the Museum Am Rothenbaum in Hamburg (DE) on a collection from the Kasai region in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
blue synnyt is a new site-specific public art project by Alex/Alexandra Sofie Jönsson.
blue synnyt is an performative audio-visual guide to posthuman relations exploring how infrastructures, practices, and colors mediate between bodies and the environment. The work draws on Karealian knowledge practices of synnyt - a mythical aetiology practiced by tietäjät, the ancient healers, working with care practices and spells connecting phenomena in their origin contexts. Presented as a temporary outdoor audio-visual installation, with swimming & sauna, and a collective listening moment, blue synnyt will reframe the public spaces of Vestre Fjordparken along Aalborg’s Limfjord in new ways.
The project examines the aesthetics of bodily (dis)comfort, in an attempt to dismantle numbness towards natural ecologies, and open up for new agencies as a temporary form of eco-surrender and solidarity. Can water - with its currents, coldness, ice, and waves - momentarily reorganize the body? blue synnyt focuses on care and temporality that centers practice-based forms of knowledge - such as hydro feminist and queerfeminist perspectives - in which knowledge is not to be uncovered, but relearned in bodily, material, and social contexts in which it can nurture new relations.
blue synnyt was created during two seasons of ice swimming in the Limfjord - the same location which is currently endangered by a planned motorway connection bridge. The project draws on a range of embodied knowledges co-created with local ice swimmers, activists, family members, and (more than human) friends - highlighting ecological bonding experiences in the nearby area through audiovisual material, underwater footage, and soundscapes.
Special thanks to Tanja Schlander, Nina Wöhlk, Caro Gervay, Liisa Annikki Jönsson, Katrina Louise Jönsson, Elisabeth Thomsen, Clara Dybbroe Viltoft, Helle Nygaard, Sara Hagins, Limfjorden, Nikolaj Kühn, Tine Steensgaard Bach, Käte Vestergaard Pedersen, Jens Bugay-Hougaard, Julianne Concepcion, Nikolaj Skjold, Simon Bendix Borregaard, Sackit, Isbjørnen and its iceswimmers for their contributions, and to The Danish Arts Foundation, Huset i Hasserisgade, Vestre Fjordparken, and Aalborg Streetfood for additional support.
blue synnyt is an performative audio-visual guide to posthuman relations exploring how infrastructures, practices, and colors mediate between bodies and the environment. The work draws on Karealian knowledge practices of synnyt - a mythical aetiology practiced by tietäjät, the ancient healers, working with care practices and spells connecting phenomena in their origin contexts. Presented as a temporary outdoor audio-visual installation, with swimming & sauna, and a collective listening moment, blue synnyt will reframe the public spaces of Vestre Fjordparken along Aalborg’s Limfjord in new ways.
The project examines the aesthetics of bodily (dis)comfort, in an attempt to dismantle numbness towards natural ecologies, and open up for new agencies as a temporary form of eco-surrender and solidarity. Can water - with its currents, coldness, ice, and waves - momentarily reorganize the body? blue synnyt focuses on care and temporality that centers practice-based forms of knowledge - such as hydro feminist and queerfeminist perspectives - in which knowledge is not to be uncovered, but relearned in bodily, material, and social contexts in which it can nurture new relations.
blue synnyt was created during two seasons of ice swimming in the Limfjord - the same location which is currently endangered by a planned motorway connection bridge. The project draws on a range of embodied knowledges co-created with local ice swimmers, activists, family members, and (more than human) friends - highlighting ecological bonding experiences in the nearby area through audiovisual material, underwater footage, and soundscapes.
Special thanks to Tanja Schlander, Nina Wöhlk, Caro Gervay, Liisa Annikki Jönsson, Katrina Louise Jönsson, Elisabeth Thomsen, Clara Dybbroe Viltoft, Helle Nygaard, Sara Hagins, Limfjorden, Nikolaj Kühn, Tine Steensgaard Bach, Käte Vestergaard Pedersen, Jens Bugay-Hougaard, Julianne Concepcion, Nikolaj Skjold, Simon Bendix Borregaard, Sackit, Isbjørnen and its iceswimmers for their contributions, and to The Danish Arts Foundation, Huset i Hasserisgade, Vestre Fjordparken, and Aalborg Streetfood for additional support.
Friday, March 22nd:
Outdoor Installation with Sound by Tanja Schlander, Ice Swimming & Sauna from 4:00 - 8:00 pm
Vestre Fjordpark, Skydebanevej 14, 9000 Aalborg
PROGRAM:
4:00 pm Ice Swimming & Sauna Session
6:00 pm Artist Talk with Karelian Refreshments
7:00 pm Listen & Viewing of blue synnyt
Note:
This is an outdoor event - please dress warmly.
Please bring whatever you feel comfortable swimming in and a towel if you wish to swim in the fjord and use the sauna. Isbjørnens iceswimmers will introduce ice swimming and assist with water safety. Changing locations at Vestre Fjordparken will be made available.
We will serve drinks and Karelian refreshments. The event will be in both Danish and English and is free of admission, no sign up is necessary.
Outdoor Installation with Sound by Tanja Schlander, Ice Swimming & Sauna from 4:00 - 8:00 pm
Vestre Fjordpark, Skydebanevej 14, 9000 Aalborg
PROGRAM:
4:00 pm Ice Swimming & Sauna Session
6:00 pm Artist Talk with Karelian Refreshments
7:00 pm Listen & Viewing of blue synnyt
Note:
This is an outdoor event - please dress warmly.
Please bring whatever you feel comfortable swimming in and a towel if you wish to swim in the fjord and use the sauna. Isbjørnens iceswimmers will introduce ice swimming and assist with water safety. Changing locations at Vestre Fjordparken will be made available.
We will serve drinks and Karelian refreshments. The event will be in both Danish and English and is free of admission, no sign up is necessary.
Alex/Alexandra Sofie Jönsson is a socially-engaged artist who works with theoretical and visual practices around the environment and ecofeminist knowledge to make open-source conceptual and emotional tools and useful infrastructures for everyday contexts. Jönsson has exhibited and created workshops internationally at Tate Modern (UK), Art Center Nabi (SKR), Roskilde Festival (DK), and Kunsthal NORD (DK); completed a residency with Art Hub Copenhagen (DK); and was awarded a working grant from The Danish Arts Foundation in 2022 as well as the Ars Electronica Prize in 2011. Jönsson is a co-founder and organizer of the experimental artistic platform Lím Collective and completed a practice-based PhD from Westminster University, London (UK) in 2020.
S for Sound, S for Solidarity is a radio communications project initiated by Yazan Khalili and f.eks.
With this collaboration, Yazan Khalili and f.eks. have co-developed a nomadic radio project in Aalborg to rethink the autonomy of art and culture from the point of view of infrastructure. The project will utilize radio programming to highlight artistic, socio-political, and cultural conversations in relation to localized power dynamics and broader geo-political contexts. By drawing attention to underserved cultural and political voices attempting to common locally, the project gives voice to resistance and facilitates critical discourse across milieus. Along with practitioners across publics in Aalborg, f.eks. will carry this out through producing pop-up broadcasts, sounds, and other radio programming over the course of 2024.
S for Sound, S for Solidarity asks, “how can we build autonomous infrastructures for art” and “what are the mediums and tools for these infrastructures? After reflecting on the need for improved communication for critical artistic, political, and social practices, Khalili and f.eks. are launching this collaborative artistic project toward addressing these needs. The project draws on f.eks.’s local organizational platform, combined with Khalili’s broad communal and artistic practice and knowledge, particularly across other radio platforms such as Radio Alhara. In doing so, the project seeks to rethink and reframe artistic practice in the hopes of producing new socio-cultural solidarities, awarenesses, and connections, while creating infrastructure for cultural and political activism and organization across scales and contexts.
With this collaboration, Yazan Khalili and f.eks. have co-developed a nomadic radio project in Aalborg to rethink the autonomy of art and culture from the point of view of infrastructure. The project will utilize radio programming to highlight artistic, socio-political, and cultural conversations in relation to localized power dynamics and broader geo-political contexts. By drawing attention to underserved cultural and political voices attempting to common locally, the project gives voice to resistance and facilitates critical discourse across milieus. Along with practitioners across publics in Aalborg, f.eks. will carry this out through producing pop-up broadcasts, sounds, and other radio programming over the course of 2024.
S for Sound, S for Solidarity asks, “how can we build autonomous infrastructures for art” and “what are the mediums and tools for these infrastructures? After reflecting on the need for improved communication for critical artistic, political, and social practices, Khalili and f.eks. are launching this collaborative artistic project toward addressing these needs. The project draws on f.eks.’s local organizational platform, combined with Khalili’s broad communal and artistic practice and knowledge, particularly across other radio platforms such as Radio Alhara. In doing so, the project seeks to rethink and reframe artistic practice in the hopes of producing new socio-cultural solidarities, awarenesses, and connections, while creating infrastructure for cultural and political activism and organization across scales and contexts.
February, 2024:
Radio episode no. 1 between Yazan Khalili and Scott William Raby
Click here for full episode (soundcloud)
Radio episode no. 1 between Yazan Khalili and Scott William Raby
Click here for full episode (soundcloud)
Yazan Khalili is an artist, architect, and a cultural producer. Currently he is a PhD candidate at ASCA, The University of Amsterdam (UvA) as part of the Imaginart group. His practice frames landscapes, institutions, and social and technological phenomena as politicized entities. He is the co-founder of Radio Alhara in 2020, and The Question of Funding collectives in 2019. His work has been exhibited widely across different venues, such as Documenta Fifteen, Kassel (DE) 2022, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (DE) 2020, MOCA Toronto (CA) 2020, Kunstforeningen GL STRAND, Copenhagen (DK) 2019, and MoMA, New York (US), 2018.