Porch sitting with Linh Le & Andie Flores
Porch sitting with Linh Le & Andie Flores
Join Linh and Andie in a relaxed porch sitting conversation.
Both artists are a part of the CopenhAustin residency exchange programme between Copenhagen and Austin, Texas initiated and facilitated by The Museum of Human Achievement (ATX), Unlsited Projects (ATX) and Warehouse9 (DK). Join them in conversation as they share their thoughts and experiences in an informal conversation.
More details coming soon….
After the conversation we invite everyone to stay on for a community dinner. We ask the your RSVP separately for this event, so that we have an accurate idea of numbers: RSVP for the dinner by clicking here.
LANGUAGE: the conversation will be in English.
ACCESS: Level free entrance to the mainhall and workspace. Accesible toilets are accessible via a certified stairlift. This event is considered relaxed. Service dogs are welcome.
ANDIE FLORES
ANDIE FLORES (b. 1990) (she/her) is a performance artist in Austin, Texas, who uses embarrassment as a medium for investigating hyper, almost obsessive, visibility in a racialized body across barriers of border, history, and capital. Her practice works to unsettle categorical, site-specific expectations of genres of performance (femininity, Latinidad, drag, citizenry) and aims to recontextualize the mechanisms required to do the work of the absurd. Flores creates experimental live performances that pair identity and comedic culture moments with over-exaggerated, often grotesque shapes and sounds. She is fascinated by the urgent task of world-building at the edge of the limits of art-making.
Her work has been shown at Bushwig, Presa House Gallery, The Museum of Human Achievement, Ivester Contemporary, MASS Gallery, Future Front Film Fest, Contrast Film Festival, Fusebox Festival, and The Dallas Latino Cultural Center; and her writing has appeared in fields, Precog, Jezebel, and Remezcla. She was named one of Remezcla’s ‘40 Emerging, Texas-based Artists to Know’ in 2020, and made Glasstire’s ‘Best of 2021’ list. She debuted her first solo stage show, To Get There… You Must Undergo… A Radical Transformation at OUTsider Festival in February 2023 and produced a sold-out 6-show run at Crashbox in November 2023. She was voted best performance artist and among the top three art writers in Concept Animals’ Community Favorites poll of December 2023.
https://www.andieflores.com/
LINH LE
Linh Le (she / her) works with performative activism and fights for a just world for life on earth. At the moment, she explores the sensuousness and philosophy of species, making rituals for the diversity of life.
Linh Le is of a new generation of artists who with their own bodies are exploring the possibility of finding a balance between a growing desperation in a world of polycrisis and maintaining the belief in a different way of being human / species.
As a child of freedom fighters who came to Denmark as boat refugees from Vietnam, and as a witness to their struggles in Danish society, Linh Le is strongly called to free herself through dance, to challenge the norms, to transcend boundaries and explore how the body can act, transform and demand space for the less heard voices.
Linh Le is educated in Aesthetics and Culture from Aarhus University and Performance Design & Planning from Roskilde University. She is co-founder and member of the performance climate activist group Becoming Species which in close alliance with Extinction Rebellion and Embassy of the Species Copenhagen has made several performative actions in public space to amplify nature’s diverse voices.
https://linhle.dk/
Giorgia Ohanesian Nardin: Talk body to me – how would you move if you had everything you need?
Giorgia Ohanesian Nardin is an italian artist of Armenian descent practicing in the fields of dance and performance. Over the past 7 years they have been facilitating Pleasure Body, a space for theoretic/perceptive/somatic research and discovery around pleasure.
Talk body to me is the opening, in the form of a conversation, of the research around Pleasure Body, starting from some of its key questions:
- what are the ways in which the body assimilates/internalizes sistemic oppression?
- how, subsequently, do these structures become ways of being in the body? and in relationships? and in community?
- from this standpoint, what do we mean when we talk about care?
- what have we internalized? and how do we free ourselves from what we have internalized non-consensually?
- how would are lives, societies, worlds be if they were based on pleasure instead of profit?
During the talk we will traverse these and other questions trying to approach the discussion from a somatic perception.
ACCESS NOTES
Language: English.
Warehouse9’s workspace has level free entrance to the space and an accessible toilet that can be accessed via a stairlift.
All events at Warehouse9 are considered “relaxed”.
Duration: approx 90 minutes.
ABOUT
Giorgia Ohanesian Nardin is an Italian artist of Armenian descent working in the contexts of dance and live performance.
Trained in dance, their work exists in the shape of movement video text choreography sound gatherings and deals with the relationship between dancing, divination and writing; with geography and the opposite of belonging; with a fetish for language, its politics and its many frictions.
They began making work in 2010 in collaboration with artists Marco D’Agostin and Francesca Foscarini, with whom they founded Associazione Culturale VAN (2014).
Since 2018, Giorgia periodically holds Pleasure Body, a space for facilitating practices and conversations associated with pleasure and rest, questioning the narrations around labors of care and hosting critical thinking around words like well-being, health, healing, recovery. Pleasure Body is currently touring extensively, being held in a variety of situations, from cultural institutions to queer occupied spaces. Giorgia was invited to hold Pleasure Body at, amongst others: Harvard University in the context of Chiasmi – Queering Italian Studies, Siobhan Davies Studios, Saison Foundation Tokyo, Short Theatre Roma, Gropius Bau, Sophiensaele.
In 2020 they created Գիշեր | gisher, a multimedia piece that focuses on their experience as a diasporic Armenian. The work has been selected for LIFT Concept Touring and is currently on tour.
In 2022-23, Giorgia’s work is produced and supported by VIERNULVIER; they are also a selected artist for Breaking the Spell, research project that deals with ethics of care and feminist discourses in artmaking. As an independent writer and poet, Giorgia’s work has been included in L’Ano Solare – a year long programme of sex and self display (axis axis editions), curated by Il Colorificio.
They hold an ongoing writing/thinking practice with London – based artist Jamila Johnson-Small, with whom they have curated several events that focus on holding/facilitating/questioning space as/for subaltern subjectivities in institutional contexts.
Their work is produced and supported by, amongst others: Associazione Culturale VAN, VIERNULVIER, Centrale Fies Art Work Space, AtelierSi, BASE Milano, Lavanderia a Vapore, Milano Mediterranea ميلانو المتوسّطيةّ
Jessica Karuhanga: ground and cover me
Jessica Karuhanga
Artist talk @ 19:30 followed by performance @ 20:30
ground and cover me engages with the physical and figurative contours of the institutional space. Karuhanga enacts gradual movements that are intuitive and deliberate responses to the walls, windows and ground. This piece is a choreographic rupture to institutional spaces that otherwise insist upon Black Queer people’s disappearance.
Bio
Jessica Karuhanga is a first-generation Canadian artist of British-Ugandan heritage whose work addresses the cultural politics of identity and Black diasporic concerns through lens-based technologies, writing, drawing and performances. She explores individual and collective concerns of Black subjectivity and embodiment through her practice.
Karuhanga has exhibited her work at the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery (2023), Mitchell Art Gallery (Edmonton, 2022), the Robert McLaughlin Gallery (Oshawa, 2021), Varley Art Gallery (Markham, 2020), The Bentway (Toronto, 2019) and Nuit Blanche (Toronto, 2018). She has performed at Remai Modern (Saskatoon, 2023), Pallas Art Projects (Dublin, IE, 2022), WNDX Festival of Moving Image (Winnipeg, 2020), Long Winter (Toronto, 2019), Royal Ontario Museum (Toronto, 2018), Cooper Cole (Toronto, 2017), Goldsmiths (London, UK, 2017) and DoubleDouble Land (Toronto, 2016). C Magazine, BlackFlash, Susan Hobbs Gallery, Blackwood Gallery and Founderie Darling have published Karuhanga’s writing. She has been featured in AGO’s Artist Spotlight, i-D, DAZED, Visual Aids, Border Crossings, Toronto Star, CBC Arts, ESSE, and the Globe and Mail. She earned her BFA from Western University and MFA from the University of Victoria. She is an Assistant Professor in Studio Art in the Visual Arts Department at Western University (London, ON, Canada).
Presented as part of QALEIDOSCOPE QUEER FILM AND PERFORMANCE ON TOUR 2024
