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.
RUBY NILSSON
CASSIE AUGUSTA JØRGENSEN
ADA ADA ADA
STORM MØLLER MADSEN
FASCIA
HOST FOR THE EVENING BA BLADH
Entrance: Free, with sign-up
Time: 19:00 – 22:00
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Ruby Nilsson (SE/DK, b. 1993) is the founder of C.U.T.S. She works as an artist, writer, and organizer whose practice interrogates the philosophies, politics, mythologies, and conspiracies that shape our understandings of sex as a physical and psychical phenomenon. Through performance, installation, curation, and writing, she explores the liminal and often contradictory overlaps between major and minor forces in the creation of sex — including capital, science, and state power vis-à-vis individual and local needs, wants, and desires.
Work: Magna Paranoia (2024)
Cassie Augusta Jørgensen (DE b.1991) art practice unfolds at the intersection of visual art, performance, film, and dance where performativity is at the heart of her work. The Berlin-based artist has danced throughout her life. She is a trained dancer from the Alvin Ailey School of Dance and graduated from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 2022 with the film work ‘The Danish Girl Dick,’ based on the 1920s diary of Danish transgender landscape painter Lilli Elbe, who, like Jørgensen, began her transition at the academy.Inspired by everything from the history of classical art forms, to Christian moral conduct and fetish, Cassie Augusta Jørgensen uses the absurd and gravity to challenge and deconstruct stereotypical representations of women, not least addressing the way pop culture has portrayed trans women as mentally disturbed, crazy, when really they’re compounded with struggle.
Work: Natures Freak (2025)
Storm Møller Madsen (DK, b.1987) is a performance and trans studies scholar, as well as a dramaturg. They are currently finishing their dissertation at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark entitled: ”Turning Toward Each Other: Trans-separatist Sensibilities, Communal Becoming, and Survival in Contemporary Trans Performance Art”. Their current work centers performance art and trans separatist practices and practicing within and beyond trans studies and trans artistic work.
Work: Turning Toward Each Other – a trans separatist practicing (2025)
Ada Ada Ada (DK, b.1992) is an algorithmic artist, writer and speaker, who works with gender, queerness and bodies as perceived by computers through algorithms, software, “artificial intelligence” and more. Ada moves between art forms, and so far, her practice has included performative photography, video, generative art, net art, writing, interactive installations as well as live “artificial intelligence” performance. Her work often deals directly with societal struggles, concerns and politics, for example through data visualization or performative engagements, and her identity as a trans woman often informs the work she does.
Work: in transitu
FASCIA (SE, b.1996) is a composer and instrument designer whose practice explores sensualities, symbiosis, invasions and blurred borders in relation to digital technologies, approaching them as gateways to unknown becomings.
rip ME (SE, b. 1996) is the musical project of Em Silén. Carried by the love of combination, rip ME’s artistic ideals are the result of their larger objective of channeling an endless generosity. Effortlessly and infinitely moving in between styles, genres and modes of expression, rip ME resigns any final definition, resulting in a soundscape that is both unmistakably strange and familiar; all-consuming and intensifying. In the midst of disparate circumstances, rip ME remains nothing but their own
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.
