November, 2025
Arrangementsdetaljer
Innmeldt arrangement:
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 event is in sweet
collaboration with artists duo ONLY SLIME and Det Norske Teatret. Introduction
by Karmaklubb* and ONLY SLIME. Time: 16:00–17:30 (sharp).
FREE! Language:
English. Location: Det Norske Teatret, Bikuben (‘the beehive’), Kristian IVs
gate 8.
Please note: 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 event, and we
will do our best to assist and solve.
*
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, 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.
Credits:
Photo by Z Walsh. Courtesy of McKenzie Wark.