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, William Demant Fonden, Dansk Tennis Fond, Region Nordjylland, 15. Juni Fonden, S.C van Fonden, Aalborg Kommune, UMMK, and Himmerland Boligforening 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, William Demant Fonden, Dansk Tennis Fond, Region Nordjylland, 15. Juni Fonden, S.C van Fonden, Aalborg Kommune, UMMK, and Himmerland Boligforening as part of an ongoing artist-initiated program.
S for Sound, S for Solidarity, Episode 9:
“Listening Lounge”
Featuring Cancel Culture Club & Spa (CCC&S)
“Listening Lounge”
Featuring Cancel Culture Club & Spa (CCC&S)
S for Sound, S for Solidarity: Listening Lounge is a collective listening session & sauna of S for Sound, S for Solidarity - episode 9 Cancel Culture Club & Spa Radio: Connecting the Dots featuring Hanan Benammar, Katrine Dirckinck-Holmfeld & Careen Koleilat. We will listen to the episode at Haraldslund Vand- og Kulturhus in a relaxing setting experiencing the episode as it is broadcasted live on Radio alHara. Prior to the launch of the episode there is the possibility to take part in a sauna.
This ninth episode of SfS, SfS dives into Cancel Culture Club & Spa, an exhibition and symposium held at Nitja Centre for Contemporary Art in Lillestrøm, Norway, in 2024. Organized by Hanan Benammar and Katrine Dirckinck-Holmfeld in collaboration with Miriam Haile, the project brought together more than 30 artists and cultural workers from the Nordic region and beyond, all of whom have been subjected in different forms of cancellations, intimidations, and attacks. In this episode, Benammar, Dirckinck-Holmfeld, and CCC&S fellow Careen Koleilat discuss the background of the project, how these power mechanisms operate specifically within the Nordic region, and the project’s future trajectories. The conversation is interwoven with montages and excerpts with the voices of the participants who presented their cases at CCC&S.
A special thanks to Radio alHara, Haraldslund Vand- og Kulturhus og Morten Poulsen for helping in the realization of this project.
This ninth episode of SfS, SfS dives into Cancel Culture Club & Spa, an exhibition and symposium held at Nitja Centre for Contemporary Art in Lillestrøm, Norway, in 2024. Organized by Hanan Benammar and Katrine Dirckinck-Holmfeld in collaboration with Miriam Haile, the project brought together more than 30 artists and cultural workers from the Nordic region and beyond, all of whom have been subjected in different forms of cancellations, intimidations, and attacks. In this episode, Benammar, Dirckinck-Holmfeld, and CCC&S fellow Careen Koleilat discuss the background of the project, how these power mechanisms operate specifically within the Nordic region, and the project’s future trajectories. The conversation is interwoven with montages and excerpts with the voices of the participants who presented their cases at CCC&S.
A special thanks to Radio alHara, Haraldslund Vand- og Kulturhus og Morten Poulsen for helping in the realization of this project.
Thursday, October 29th:
Collective Listening Session & Sauna from 5:00 - 8:00 pm
Haraldslund Vand- og Kulturhus, Kastetvej 83, 9000 Aalborg
Program:
5:00 pm Sauna (optional)
6:30 pm Welcome with snacks & drinks
7:00 pm Collective listening to Episode 9
Note: The event is free of admission and anyone can attend, no sign up is necessary. The language of the event will be primarily in English (with some Danish). Complimentary snacks and refreshments will be provided.
Collective Listening Session & Sauna from 5:00 - 8:00 pm
Haraldslund Vand- og Kulturhus, Kastetvej 83, 9000 Aalborg
Program:
5:00 pm Sauna (optional)
6:30 pm Welcome with snacks & drinks
7:00 pm Collective listening to Episode 9
Note: The event is free of admission and anyone can attend, no sign up is necessary. The language of the event will be primarily in English (with some Danish). Complimentary snacks and refreshments will be provided.
Cancel Culture Club & Spa (CCC&S) is a performative project centered around conviviality, community, and solidarity, gathering artists, art workers, scholars, and activists from across the Nordic region and beyond. CCC&S is a platform to exchange, analyze, and critically engage with the phenomenon of widespread cases of censorship, attacks, and intimidations against artistic practices situated at the intersection between emancipatory politics, institutional critique, and solidarity movements. The project appropriates the term “cancel culture” as a form of satire, self-critique, and political commentary. By subverting the use of the term, the aim is to dissect the anatomy of these cases, refine our strategies, and sharpen our tools of resistance.
Hanan Benammar is an Algerian / French artist based in Oslo, Norway educated at l'Ecole Supérieure d'Arts de Rueil-Malmaison, Paris, France, the Oslo National Academy of the Arts (KhiO), Oslo, Norway, the Dutch Art Institute, Arnhem, The Netherlands and the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm, Sweden. Benammar works conceptually between geopolitical, environmental, and societal issues with projects that usually unfold over a long period of time and materialise as sound and video installations, performances, music, sculpture, and interventions in public space. She also curates, organises, and initiates collective endeavours and platforms as a part of her art practice and is a core organizer of CCC&S.
Katrine Dirckinck-Holmfeld, PhD, is a visual artist, postdoctoral researcher, and educator born in Aalborg, Denmark. Working across audio, video essays, installation, performance, and text, she collaborates with communities to explore historical residues and reassemble their fragments into new compositions. For the past two decades, her work has developed around what she terms reparative praxis. She holds a PhD from the University of Copenhagen, an MFA from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, and an MA in Contemporary Art Theory from Goldsmiths, University of London. She is co-founder of the Reparative Encounters network, Sorte Firkant, bar and cultural venue and core organizer of CCC&S.
Careen Koleilat is a Lebanese-Palestinian trans/non-binary filmmaker, artistic researcher, and creative entrepreneur working across film, sound, and research. Their practice explores diasporic storytelling, experimental narrative forms, and the shifting relationship between audience and filmmaker, often using sound and sensory elements to create immersive spaces where distance and closeness resonate. Educated in Beirut, London, and Gothenburg, Koleilat holds an MFA in Film from HDK-Valand and has completed postgraduate studies in the UK. They co-founded Blue Fox Studios, a queer-led post-production studio based in London and Dubai, centred on inclusive and decolonial approaches to film post-production. They were a fellow at CCC&S, and this SfS, SfS episode was recorded at their studio in Gothenburg, Sweden.
Hanan Benammar is an Algerian / French artist based in Oslo, Norway educated at l'Ecole Supérieure d'Arts de Rueil-Malmaison, Paris, France, the Oslo National Academy of the Arts (KhiO), Oslo, Norway, the Dutch Art Institute, Arnhem, The Netherlands and the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm, Sweden. Benammar works conceptually between geopolitical, environmental, and societal issues with projects that usually unfold over a long period of time and materialise as sound and video installations, performances, music, sculpture, and interventions in public space. She also curates, organises, and initiates collective endeavours and platforms as a part of her art practice and is a core organizer of CCC&S.
Katrine Dirckinck-Holmfeld, PhD, is a visual artist, postdoctoral researcher, and educator born in Aalborg, Denmark. Working across audio, video essays, installation, performance, and text, she collaborates with communities to explore historical residues and reassemble their fragments into new compositions. For the past two decades, her work has developed around what she terms reparative praxis. She holds a PhD from the University of Copenhagen, an MFA from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, and an MA in Contemporary Art Theory from Goldsmiths, University of London. She is co-founder of the Reparative Encounters network, Sorte Firkant, bar and cultural venue and core organizer of CCC&S.
Careen Koleilat is a Lebanese-Palestinian trans/non-binary filmmaker, artistic researcher, and creative entrepreneur working across film, sound, and research. Their practice explores diasporic storytelling, experimental narrative forms, and the shifting relationship between audience and filmmaker, often using sound and sensory elements to create immersive spaces where distance and closeness resonate. Educated in Beirut, London, and Gothenburg, Koleilat holds an MFA in Film from HDK-Valand and has completed postgraduate studies in the UK. They co-founded Blue Fox Studios, a queer-led post-production studio based in London and Dubai, centred on inclusive and decolonial approaches to film post-production. They were a fellow at CCC&S, and this SfS, SfS episode was recorded at their studio in Gothenburg, Sweden.
S for Sound, S for Solidarity, Episode 8:
“Kinkurimba”
Featuring Kabila Kyowa Stephane (CD/BR), Luyando Muleya (ZM), Joseph Chembe (Joe Sage) (ZM), Simone dos Santos Palmiera (BR), & Scott William Raby (DK/US)
“Kinkurimba”
Featuring Kabila Kyowa Stephane (CD/BR), Luyando Muleya (ZM), Joseph Chembe (Joe Sage) (ZM), Simone dos Santos Palmiera (BR), & Scott William Raby (DK/US)
S for Sound, S for Solidarity - episode 8 “Kinkurimba” prototypes an artistic educational infrastructure that seeks to connect the regions of Southern Africa and Northern Europe toward new cultural exchanges. The project emphasizes non-commercial, ecological, and local cultural approaches to (art) education in Southern African contexts to put non-western and alternative approaches into play alongside critical artistic pedagogy from Scandinavia. In doing so, the project seeks to collapse geography and highlight shared values that encourage experimental and critical approaches to art as a pedagogical and social infrastructure across borders.
In this eighth episode of the ongoing program S for Sound, S for Solidarity (SfS, SfS) - the current Kinkurimba group unfolds their practices through a new sonic episode set across Congo, Zambia, Brazil, and Denmark. By combining monologues, speeches, and poetry readings mixed with fragments of the discursive event that launched the Kinkurimba project, the new episode highlights both current trajectories and the origins of the collective. Set to a context specific soundtrack including Zamrock and Kuyabile with lo-fi recordings of the natural settings where the group is located, the episode seeks to draw a rich portrait that serves as a sonic introduction to Kinkurimba.
A special thanks to Radio alHara, Anawana Haloba, Livingstone Office for Contemporary Art (LoCA), Morten Poulsen, Kunsten Museum of Modern Art Aalborg, and The Danish Institute in Rome for helping in the realization of this project.
In this eighth episode of the ongoing program S for Sound, S for Solidarity (SfS, SfS) - the current Kinkurimba group unfolds their practices through a new sonic episode set across Congo, Zambia, Brazil, and Denmark. By combining monologues, speeches, and poetry readings mixed with fragments of the discursive event that launched the Kinkurimba project, the new episode highlights both current trajectories and the origins of the collective. Set to a context specific soundtrack including Zamrock and Kuyabile with lo-fi recordings of the natural settings where the group is located, the episode seeks to draw a rich portrait that serves as a sonic introduction to Kinkurimba.
A special thanks to Radio alHara, Anawana Haloba, Livingstone Office for Contemporary Art (LoCA), Morten Poulsen, Kunsten Museum of Modern Art Aalborg, and The Danish Institute in Rome for helping in the realization of this project.
Saturday, July 11th:
Broadcast Premiere* from 7:00 - 8:00 pm (CEST)
*Online Broadcast Event with Radio alHara راديو الحارة
Sunday, August 9th:
Kinkurimba Listening Lounge from 2:00 - 4:00 pm (CEST)
Plot 34, Likute Way, Livingstone Office of Contemporary Art (LoCA), Livingstone, Zambia
Click here to listen to episode 8 (soundcloud)
Broadcast Premiere* from 7:00 - 8:00 pm (CEST)
*Online Broadcast Event with Radio alHara راديو الحارة
Sunday, August 9th:
Kinkurimba Listening Lounge from 2:00 - 4:00 pm (CEST)
Plot 34, Likute Way, Livingstone Office of Contemporary Art (LoCA), Livingstone, Zambia
Click here to listen to episode 8 (soundcloud)
Kinkurimba is a socially-engaged pedagogical project that was initiated by Kabila Kyowa in collaboration with f.eks. and Livingstone Office for Contemporary Art in 2024. Now operating as a mostly online international collective, Kinkurimba was initially launched as a gathering at the library of Kunsten Museum of Modern Art Aalborg as a “détournement” that included a cross-border exchange and a collectively designed “kinkurimba” poster as a public artwork. This episode features the voices of the current Kinkurimba collective members Kabila Kyowa Stephane (CD/BR), Luyando Muleya (ZM), Simone Dos Santos Palmiera (BR), Joseph Chembe (Joe Sage) (ZM), and Scott William Raby (DK/US) as well as many other special guests.
S for Sound, S for Solidarity hosted by f.eks. will be featured at Gudskul Ekosistem in Jakarta as part of the group exhibition Lumbunghissima curated by Diventare Lumbung.
In the exhibition, S for Sound, S for Solidarity (SfS, SfS) will be featured as an audio installation playing the current catalog of published SfS, SfS episodes. SfS, SfS is a sonic platform and radio communications project co-initiated by artists Yazan Khalili and f.eks. in 2023. Initially launched as a pilot project in 2024, SfS, SfS is now continuing as an ongoing program hosted and organized by f.eks. in Aalborg, Denmark that is broadcasted internationally in collaboration with Radio alHara. It is also enacted physically across institutions and public spaces as sonic installations, listening events, and sound walks, a.o.
The Episodes (no. 1 - 7) featured in Lumbunghissima include artists Scott William Raby, Yazan Khalili, Morten Poulsen, Razan Sabbagh, Artists Project Group (APG) (Lukas Heistinger, Bernhard Garnicnig, and Andrea Steves), Miriam Simun, Parsa Sanjana Sajid, Bureau of Analogies (BoA), Aalborg Artists Association (AAAA) (with Kamilla Mez and TWIIID), Hannibal Andersen, and Verdensrommet (featuring Sara Shooshtari and Tara Fraser with Sandro Masai).
A special thanks to Alessandro Rolandi, Viviana Sacchi Sorbonne, and The Danish Institute in Rome for helping make this collaboration possible. Lumbunghissima is kindly supported by The Italian Cultural Institute in Jakarta and hosted by Gudskul, Serrum, Jurnal Karbon, and RURUradio.
In the exhibition, S for Sound, S for Solidarity (SfS, SfS) will be featured as an audio installation playing the current catalog of published SfS, SfS episodes. SfS, SfS is a sonic platform and radio communications project co-initiated by artists Yazan Khalili and f.eks. in 2023. Initially launched as a pilot project in 2024, SfS, SfS is now continuing as an ongoing program hosted and organized by f.eks. in Aalborg, Denmark that is broadcasted internationally in collaboration with Radio alHara. It is also enacted physically across institutions and public spaces as sonic installations, listening events, and sound walks, a.o.
The Episodes (no. 1 - 7) featured in Lumbunghissima include artists Scott William Raby, Yazan Khalili, Morten Poulsen, Razan Sabbagh, Artists Project Group (APG) (Lukas Heistinger, Bernhard Garnicnig, and Andrea Steves), Miriam Simun, Parsa Sanjana Sajid, Bureau of Analogies (BoA), Aalborg Artists Association (AAAA) (with Kamilla Mez and TWIIID), Hannibal Andersen, and Verdensrommet (featuring Sara Shooshtari and Tara Fraser with Sandro Masai).
A special thanks to Alessandro Rolandi, Viviana Sacchi Sorbonne, and The Danish Institute in Rome for helping make this collaboration possible. Lumbunghissima is kindly supported by The Italian Cultural Institute in Jakarta and hosted by Gudskul, Serrum, Jurnal Karbon, and RURUradio.
Wednesday, July 1st:
Opening feat. Riff22 (DJ set) from 7 pm
Gudskul Ekosistem, Jl. Durian No. 30A, Jagakarsa, Jakarta Selatan, Jakarta, Indonesia
Opening feat. Riff22 (DJ set) from 7 pm
Gudskul Ekosistem, Jl. Durian No. 30A, Jagakarsa, Jakarta Selatan, Jakarta, Indonesia
Lumbunghissima is a collective exhibition organized by an informal group of art and cultural workers who gather in monthly assemblies under the name Diventare Lumbung (Becoming Lumbung) in Italy. Within Lumbunghissima, the spaces of Gudskul Ekosistem in Jakarta, will be filled with geographies, languages, and contexts that intertwine to activate new and unexpected ecosystems. Lumbunghissima's genesis stems from online interactions between Gudskul Ekosistem and art and cultural workers in Italy at Museo d'Arte Moderna di Bologna (MAMbo) in Bologna (IT) initiated by Paola Pietronave in July of 2024.