Underskog

This event is a RSVP-event only. Please send your full names to [email protected], 18:30 pm at the latest on the same day or attend at the facebook-event. No doorbell, the gate closes at 19:15.

This is the first event of several held in our not so well furnished home in Osterhausgate 12 in Oslo. We will serve gløgg and the fire will be burning to warm you up for:

Oslo needs it, you need it, we need it, they definetly need it, and finally it is here!

FILM SCREENING: COMMUNITY ACTION CENTER, 2010, 69 min, AK Burns & AL Steiner (New York)

Community Action Center is a 69-minute sociosexual video by A.K. Burns and A.L. Steiner which incorporates the erotic of a community where the personal is not only political, but sexual. This project was heavily inspired by 1970’s porn-romance-liberation films, which served as distinct portraits of the urban inhabitants, landscapes and the body politic of a particular time and place. Community Action Center is a unique contemporary womyn-centric composition that serves as both an ode and a gap-filler. Sex, sexuality and the complexities of gendered bodies are inherently political. This project is a small archive of an intergenerational community built on collaboration, friendship, sex and art. The work attempts to explore a consideration of feminist fashion, sexual aesthetics and an expansive view of what is defined as ‘sex’. Burns and Steiner worked with artists and performers who created infinitely complex gender and performance roles that are both real and fantastical. This was set to a soundtrack of music culledfrom the worldwide sisterhood: Chicks on Speed, Effi Briest, Electrelane, K8 Hardy, Lesbians on Ecstasy, Light Asylum, MEN, Motherland, NGUZUNGUZU, I.U.D. (Lizzi Bougatsos & Sadie Laska), Kinski and Thee Majesty (Genesis P-Orridge), and featuring original compositions by Justin Bond, Nick Hallett & Sam Greenleaf Miller, Ashland Mines & Wu Tsang, Sergei Tcherepnin and Tri-State Area. The video seeks to expose and reformulate paradigms that are typical of porn typologies, intentionally exploiting tropes for their comical value, critical consideration and historical homage. The artists have created a reason to reflect on the cultural realness of homo-grown lesbian sexuality. The work aims to be a hedonistic and distinctly political adventure.

The artists will join us for reflections and affections on skype from US.

THE ARTISTS

A.K. BURNS is an interdisciplinary artist who lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She received a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design 1998 and an MFA from Bard College, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, in 2010. A.K.’s practice explores interpretation and implications of sexuality, power and language, often taking the form of sculpture, video, drawing or social actions. A.K. has been a frequent contributor and active member of both LTTR and Ridykeulous. A.K. is a founding member of the artists’ activist group W.A.G.E. (Working Artists and the Greater Economy). Her work can be found in the Judith Rothschild Contemporary Drawings Collection at the MoMA. This fall, A.K. will launch the inaugural issue of RANDY in collaboration with Sophie Mörner/Capricious Publishing. http://akburns.net/

A.L. STEINER uses constructions of photography, video, installation, collage, collaboration, performance and curatorial work as seductive tropes channelled through the sensibility of a cynical queer eco-feminist androgyne. Based in Brooklyn, NY, Steiner is a collective member of Chicks on Speed, the co-curator of Ridykeulous, a founding member of W.A.G.E. (Working Artists and the Greater Economy) and collaborates with numerous visual and performing artists. Her work has been recently featured in Greater New York 2010, P.S. 1, New York and has been subject to solo exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Sofia, Bulgaria, the Portland Institute of Contemporary Art and the New Museum, New York. She is a visiting instructor at the School of Visual Arts and University of California Los Angeles, and is represented by Taxter & Spengemann, NY. http://www.taxterandspengemann.com/category/artist/a-l-steiner/