The Curating Lab Collective. Photo: Sigurd Ytre-Arne
Curating Lab invites you to Tøyen
Access your solar plexus, your North Star, and your fury! This compass allows us to defy, navigate and reform; to play our own game – not as instruments, but by being instrumental. Moving from play to interplay, we can make room for shared experiences and knowledge exchange.
In alienating and at times disorienting encounters, would our compass help steer a steady course? Would it drive us away from or closer towards x, y or z? And how can the body consciousness become a guiding force?
Curating Lab's event To be in the margins is to be part of the whole* wants to explore these questions around travelling and visiting, arriving and departing, leading and being led.
What happens when orchestra and dancehall fuse, when the audience become artistic co-creators? Experiments, performances and collective events like these will bring all of Tøyen to life from day to night in every nook and corner of the Tøyen Square, old Munch Museum, and in the transitional areas in between.
Through an improvised live looping by Vjolla Emiri, performances with Ilavenil Vasuky Jayalapan experimenting with Tamil lyrics and sounds, and interactive music carousel in the Square free of charge, the audience can get a taste of how a composition forms spontaneously and in the moment.
Embark on the train ride Gebrokken, a sound journey where voices and electroacoustics are weaved into an abstract dialogue about language, identity and belonging in the local cityscape. With percussive rhythms and vibrant movements, the local school band Tøyen Orchestra with Harald Johannessen and David C. Timme, and street dance collective B16 will activate the Square, and literally guide the audience towards more full-scale events in the old Munch Museum.
Interactive signaling systems, nations and identity – all defined and ever-shifting constructs – will be explored through various concerts and workshops in the old Munch Museum. Build your own micro-radio transmitter in a hands-on workshop with Venus Ex Machina, stirring a conversation about imagination and private versus public space. Viktor Bomstad and Ruhail Qaisar’s noise-centered sound collaboration springs from an unlikely connection to the precarious borderlands of indigenous Sami ground and the mountain passes of India.
The day draws to a close with a percussive tribute by Mohammad Reza Mortazavi, actively defying traditional techniques and reclaiming artistic agency. Share a meal in the community kitchen, and vibe through the night in an afterparty featuring Amuleto Manuela, NAGAVER and back-to-back DJs.
On this special day, we invite you to become aware of your own rigid borders, and learn, play and participate. We invite you to leave your imprint wherever you go.
The event is free of charge with optional donation on site.
About Curating Lab
Curating Lab is formed by David Cariano Timme, Sally Sayehdār, Shaon Bedannita Mukherjee, Faduma Mohamud, Luis Félix, Kristine Utne Stiberg and Lisa Teige. They have taken part in a year-long course for young curator aspirants organised by Ultima in partnership with the European network Sounds Now. The Curating Lab participants share an interest in different types of sound and music, inclusivity and wide representation of voices in culture. There is no single target audience for the events. Instead, multiple art forms and perspectives are presented in a way that involves and includes local businesses, public and organisations and venues, old and young.
*Source: Feminist Theory: from Margin to Centre by bell hooks
