Cancel Culture Club & Spa: Public Symposium

Name: Cancel Culture Club & Spa: Public Symposium
Start: 2024-12-21T10:00:00+01:00
End: 2024-12-21T21:00:00+01:00
Location: Kirkegata 10A, 2000 Lillestrøm, Norway

Schedule

Sat Dec 21 2024 at 10:00 am to 09:00 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Kirkegata 10A, 2000 Lillestrøm, Norway | Lillestrøm, AK

Welcome to Cancel Culture Club & Spa Public Symposium, with with lectures by Olivier Marboeuf, Candice Breitz, and Mari Qviller & Ida Helene Benonisen.
The symposium is open to all interested, participation is free.
The symposium will be held in English.
PROGRAMME:
– 10.00–11.00: Introduction to Cancel Culture Club & Spa + report from the Fellows
– 11.00–12.30: the Fosen Case, report from the trial by Mari Qviller & Ida Helene Benonisen
– 12.30–13.30: Break
– 13.30–15.30: The Anatomy of Cancellation – A Performative Lecture by Candice Breitz // collective discussion
– 15.30–16.00: Break
– 16.00–17.30: Online keynote: The End of Non-White Innocence by Olivier Marboeuf // collective discussion
– 17.30–18.30: Closing session with hosts, fellows, CCC&S guests, audience
– 18.30–21.00: Sauna, food, mingling
– 21.00–06.00: Winter Solstice
PARTICIPANTS AND PRESENTATIONS:
Ida Helene Benonisen (she/her) is a Sámi-Norwegian slam poet. Along with Asha Abdullahi, she runs the slam scene Blue Monday at SALT in Oslo, where workshops, writing sessions, and poetry nights are held. She is also an active performing slam poet. Ida uses poetry both as a means of expressing the personal and intimate, as well as a tool in her activism and political engagement. Benonisen’s poetry became a central part of the demonstrations during the Fosen Action, when she entered the Ministry of Oil and Energy to protest the ongoing human rights violations against the Fosen Sámi people.
Mari Qviller (b. 2000, Norway) is a Norwegian playwright and activist. In 2022 she received a bachelor’s degree in script writing from the Norwegian actors institute (NSKI) and debuted at Unge Viken theatre with the play «Little blue men». The same year she appeared in the mini-documentary «The biggest test» made by Norway's state owned oil company Equinor. Qviller worked for three years in the environmental organization «Young friends of the earth», and in the spring of 2023 she occupied the Norwegian ministry of oil and gas for five days with fellow environmental and Sámi activists.
Ida Helene Benonisen and Mari Qviller contribute to the Cancel Culture Club & Spa public symposium with a report on the ongoing Fosen case trial, addressing the Sámi struggle and in Norway today.
Candice Breitz (b. 1972, South Africa) is a Berlin-based artist whose moving image installations have been shown internationally over the last thirty years. Throughout Breitz’s career, she has explored the dynamics by means of which an individual becomes their self in relation to a larger community, be that the immediate community that one encounters in family, or the real and imagined communities that are shaped not only by questions of national belonging, race, gender and religion, but also by the increasingly undeniable influence of mainstream media such as television, cinema and social media. Most recently, Breitz’s work has focused on the conditions under which empathy is produced, reflecting on a media-saturated global culture in which strong identification with fictional characters and celebrity figures runs parallel to widespread indifference to the plight of those facing real world adversity. In 2022, she completed the 'White Noise Trilogy,' a trio of multichannel video installations that includes 'Love Story' (2016), ‘TLDR' (2017) and ‘Whiteface' (2022).
In November 2024, the Saarlandmuseum canceled an exhibition of Breitz’s work abruptly (and in the absence of due process) in response to her criticism of Israel’s far-right governing coalition. Previously, a symposium titled ‘We Still Need to Talk’ (which Breitz co-curated with Michael Rothberg) was prevented from taking place with the support of German state funding on two separate occasions (first by Berlin’s Akademie der Künste in December 2022, then by the Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung in mid-October 2023).
Candice Breitz contributes to the Cancel Culture Club & Spa symposium programme on Saturday 21st December with the performative lecture The Anatomy of a Cancellation.
Olivier Marboeuf (b. 1971) is a writer, performer, independent curator and film producer of Caribbean origin. Marboeuf founded the independent art centre Espace Khiasma, which he ran from 2004 to 2018, in Les Lilas on the outskirts of Paris. At Khiasma, he developed a programme addressing minority representation through exhibitions, screenings, debates, performances and collaborative projects across the North-East of Paris. He is also an educator and has taught visual arts in several Fine Art schools in Europe. He is member of the cinema and performance collective ‘The Living and The Dead Ensemble’ and recently presented, as an artist, the first part of his sonic collective project ‘The Museum of Breath’ in the context of the Berlin Biennale 12. He currently produces films within Spectre Productions, a production company he founded in 2013 in Rennes (France). In 2022, Marboeuf published the collection of essays, ‘Suites décoloniales: s’enfuir de la plantation’ (Decolonial Suites: Fleeing from the Plantation) as well as the poetry book ‘Les matières de la nuit’ (Matters of the Night) (both Éditions du commun, Rennes, France). In 2023, two new books will be published: ‘L’emeutier et la sorcière’ (The Rioter and the Witch) in French and ‘Vers un cinéma déparlant’ (une hypothèse caraïbe) (Towards a De-speaking Cinema: A Caribbean Hypothesis) in French, English, German and Spanish. Many of his texts are available to read on his blog, Toujours Debout.
Olivier Marboeuf contributes to the Cancel Culture Club & Spa public seminar with the online keynote The End of Non-White Innocence: For a Politics of Minority Art Spaces.
Cancel Culture Club & Spa is organised by artists Hanan Benammar, Katrine Dirckinck-Holmfeld and Miriam Haile in collaboration with Nitja Centre for Contemporary Art.