Center of Unseen Trans Survival (C.U.T.S.) is an itinerant, para-institutional, artist-run initiative aimed at sustaining and realizing the visions of trans artists, as well as supporting projects investigating themes informed or indebted to strategies of trans survival. Founded by artist Ruby Nilsson (SE/DK) in 2024, the center merges art, curation, and infrastructural thinking to find new models of creative production in times of rampaging transmisogyny and trans antagonism. Open to visual artists, writers, performers, filmmakers and more, C.U.T.S. supports its members through curated showcases, network gatherings, and distribution. It also offers anonymity to members by lending itself as an artistic vessel when needed.
More information coming soon, including artist line-up.
Entrance: Free, with sign-up
Time: 19:00
At the moment C.U.T.S. collaborates with institutions such as Warehouse9 (DK), Bastard Nordic (DK), Index (SE), and My Wild Flag (SE).
With support from Nordic Culture Fund, Nordic Mobility Fund and Vanløse Lokaludvalg.
Access Information:
Warehouse9 has a level entrance and an accessible toilet, which is reachable via a certified stairlift.
All events are run as relaxed spaces, with a safer space policy in place. We kindly ask visitors to orient themselves to the space and policy upon arrival.
Jasmin has a master’s degree in English and cultural communications from the University of Copenhagen and has worked with several fields within the cultural sphere. She has worked with executing and communicating films, festivals, art fairs, and literature, and has now embarked upon queer performance art at Warehouse9.
Emma (they/she) has been a core member since 2012 and a leading effort in driving organisational development. They have helped shape WH9’s artistic profile, initiated national and international collaborations and consolidated WH9 through fundraising strategies, and insisting on production methods centering care and accessiblility.
In addition, Emma works as an independent curator, e.g. through the curatorial duo osborn&møller, where they have acted as guest curator at the Wellcome Collection (UK) and curated part of City of Women’s 25 year anniversary festival in 2019 (SL). Emma has experience as a freelance producer in the UK, where they worked with artists such as Poppy Jackson, Manuel Vason and SPILL Festival. Emma holds a MA in Theater and Performance from Queen Mary, University of London and a BA (Hons) in Drama, Applied Theatre & Education from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.
Jørgen Callesen (They/He) is co-founder and co-director of Warehouse9.
For the past 17 years, they have been an integral part of developing Warehouse9 to become a leading organisation for cross-aesthetic queer art, including international festivals and socially engaged projects. He holds a Ph.D. in information & media science from Aarhus University (2005) and has an artistic practice with the performance figure “miss fish”. They have presented solo work in Denmark and internationally since 2002 and work in collaboration with numerous queer artists as well as in lager scale productions.
