McKenzie Wark: On ‘Raving’ & ‘Deserters’ Dance’, Karmaklubb* in collaboration with ONLY SLIME
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We want to warmly welcome you to this afternoon session of thought and pleasure with McKenzie Wark. The agenda: A dive into ‘Raving’ (Duke University Press, 2023) and the recently published ‘Deserters' Dance’ (Karmaklubb*, PRAKSIS, and Dilettante Army, 2024) that reflects further on raves as spaces of resilience and transcendence.
About ‘Raving’: “What is an art of life for what feels like the end of a world? In Raving McKenzie Wark takes readers into the undisclosed locations of New York’s thriving underground queer and trans rave scene. Techno, first and always a Black music, invites fresh sonic and temporal possibilities for this era of diminishing futures. Raving to techno is an art and a technique at which queer and trans bodies might be particularly adept but which is for anyone who lets the beat seduce them. Extending the rave’s sensations, situations, fog, lasers, drugs, and pounding sound systems onto the page, Wark invokes a trans practice of raving as a timely aesthetic for dancing in the ruins of this collapsing capital.”
This conversation is in sweet collaboration with artists duo ONLY SLIME and Det Norske Teatret. Time: 16:00–17:30 (sharp). 🎟️ FREE! Language: English. Location: Det Norske Teatret, Bikuben (‘the beehive’), Kristian IVs gate 8.
Due to limited capacity, please arrive early to secure your spot <3 Please reach out if you have any further questions or concerns regarding the events, and we will do our best to assist and solve it.
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Since 2018, Karmaklubb* has organized several international discursive events, screenings, artist presentations, facilitated artistic and theoretical research as well as published texts focusing on spaces—physically, virtual, hybrid—that allows senses of freedom; where hierarchies dissolve and categories vanish, for something else to form. There are many keys: Art can be one, clubbing too, or writing. Our first encounter was with American artist Tony Cokes’ video work ‘Mikrohaus, or the black atlantic?’ (2018), while one of the most recent outcomes: a week-long festival with Australian thinker and writer McKenzie Wark, taking place at Trekanten, Det Norske Teatret, and MUNCH, followed by a celebration at Black Box teater, Oslo.
Acknowledgements: This series of events has been made possible through the collaboration with McKenzie Wark; PRAKSIS; Anders Dunker and Existenz Forlag, Oslo; ONLY SLIME and Det Norske Teatret; MUNCH and MUNCH Triennale 2025: Almost Unreal; Trekanten, Oslo; Black Box teater, Oslo; Tronsmo bøker & tegneserier, Oslo; Prismatic Pages, Oslo, and all Partners and Artists involved in the individual events. We are grateful for the support from Arts and Culture Norway (Kulturdirektoratet); Agency for Cultural Affairs, City of Oslo (Kulturetaten, Oslo kommune); The Royal Norwegian Consulate General, New York, NY, USA / The Ministry of Foreign Affairs; The Fritt Ord Foundation / Stiftelsen Fritt Ord; MUNCH, Oslo, and Det Norske Teatret, Oslo.
Photos by Z Walsh. Courtesy of McKenzie Wark.
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Det Norske TeatretKristian IVs gate 8
0164 Oslo