Queer Geography

Queer Geografi
(Scroll down for English version)
En workshop organiseret af APR - Agentur for Offentlige Ressourcer
i Råhuset, d. 4 -5 juli 13:00- 17:00, 6 juli 21:00-?
beliggende i Kulturstaldene Halmtorvet nr. 13 D.

Efterfølgende udstilling og fernisering i Kabine
Åbning lørdag d. 8 juli 20:00- 22:00
Reykjaviksgade 4, Islands Brygge.

Eksisterer der en bestemt logik for ”Queer Geografi?” Workshoppens
formål er at remodelere det offentlige rum, og at se på muligheden for at genetablere og ændre steder eller ligefrem besætte områder i byrummet til bestemte former for QUEER formål.
Traditionelt set har Queer rum ofte eksisteret i magtesløse
strukturer, parallelt med gader, skulpturer, parker,
offentlige toiletter, strande m.m. Det er disse fysiske rum der
rummer muligheden for indskrivelsen af en særlig social og geografisk Queer logik.

Workshoppen vil undersøge disse oaser og deres unikke karakter, samt de forskellige forbrugs cirkulationer der ligger mellem kønnene. Det kan iagttages bl.a. gennem samfundets hegemoniske struktur, der de seneste år har forudsagt en social (fra)filtrering af Queer formationer i det offentlige rum. Dette sammenstød af rumlige konflikter, skriver David Harvey, skyldes mødet mellem mikro skalaen, mellem kroppen og det personlige, sat op mod makro skalaen, de globale politiske og økonomiske interesser.
Spørgsmålet er: om ønsket om at opretholde en Queer kultur derfor fordrer at vi i fremtiden bliver vores egne arkitekter?

Praktisk vil workshoppen starte ud med at forsøge fælles at kortlægge
Queer København. Workshoppens vil således finde nye hemmelige strategier for måder at tænke og formulere Queer rum. Workshoppen vil være en mulighed for socialt at diskutere og praktisk forsøge nye former for auto-organiserede metoder at indskrive Queer erfaringer i byrummet. Vi vil tage ud I marken og registrere det eksisterende byrum og udveksle personlige erfaringer, intervenere, samt diskutere de historiske betydninger eksistensen af mod-offentlige rum har haft.

Resultatet af den kollektive proces vil dokumenteres og vises med en
lille fælles udstilling i Kabine. Kabine er et lille progressivt
kunstnerstyret udstillings rum som ligger på Islands Brygge. Desuden
er der mulighed for at up-loade vores materiale fra workshoppen gennem T-vlog, og dele processen og resultatet via Internettet sendt direkte på Tv-Tv.

Tider for workshop i Råhuset: 4. juli kl. 13-17
5. juli kl. 13-17
6. juli kl. 21-?
Fernisering 8. juli kl. 20-22

Udstilling Åben i Kabine: 9-15. juli kl. 14-17

Kontakt Lasse Lau email Queer@lasselau.dk for mere information
eller besøg www.kabine.dk


Queer Geography
(English version)
Workshop organized by APR- Agency for Public Resources
in Råhuset, d. 4 -5th July 13-17 PM 6th July 9-? PM
located in Kulturstaldene (meatpacking district) Halmtorvet nr. 13 D.

With following exhibition at Kabine which
Opens Saturday the 8th of July 20:00- 22:00 located at Reykjaviksgade 4, Islands Brygge.


Is there certain logic to queer geography? The aim for the workshop is to think through models that can change, recover, appropriate or even occupy public spaces for queer and social purposes. The Queer space is often seen as a powerless structure, that exist parallel to streets, sculptures, parks, public toilets, beaches, etc. and time-to-time gets appropriated socially into the roam of queer meaning. This workshop wants to examine these so-called “queer oases,” and their special significance, and look into the role of gender relations by the different circulation of inhabitation. The hegemony of social structures in society has frequently resulted in the filtering of social uses in the public space. This clash between perceptions of space, David Harvey writes, happens between the micro-scale of the body and the personal and the macro-scale of the global political economy. The question is if we have to become our own architects of living to sustain queer culture?

The workshop will take place as a laboratory finding new secret ways of thinking and formulating of queer experiences into the public space. We will make field trips, and talk about individual experiences, and the inherited social and historical spaces that was importance for the formation of a counter-public. We will start out by collectively map; Queer Copenhagen based on the social exchange of knowledge between the participants; visits some of those desired locations; and recover and re-inscribe new and auto-organized -ways through interventions of engaging the city.

The outcome of this process is to be collectively documented and shown at Kabine, which is a small progressive artist space located on Islands Brygge, and further publicizing is individually available through T-vlog a do it your self Television program, where you can upload from your own web based computer to broadcast direct on the local Station Tv-Tv.

Workshop schedule in Råhuset: 4th of July 1-5 PM
5th of July 1-5 PM
6th of July 9-? PM
Opening 8th of July 8-10PM

Exhibition opening times: 9-15 of July 2-5 PM

Please contact Lasse Lau on email queer@lasselau.dk for more information, or visit the website www.kabine.dk