Queer Fire: On Touching and Being Touched

CAPIm’s Senior Visiting Researcher Liv Bugge proposes a four-day pracitce-based workshop from the perspective of her own artistic practice, thinking with multidirectional relationships, taking Nigel Calrk and Kathryn Yusoff’s text, “Queer Fire: Ecology, Combustion and Pyrosexual Desire” as a startingpoint to work with the relation between energy politics and our bodies. The course moment will explore notions of learning as multidirectional, touching as key to knowledge, and the relationship between politics of desire, reproduction, and fire.  

Liv Bugge studied at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts and the Higher Institute for Fine Arts in Belgium. She completed her PhD, “The Other Wild: Touching Art as Confrontation”, at Oslo National Academy of the Arts in 2019. Bugge’s research explores how mechanisms in society are internalized and contribute to the maintaining of normative notions and ethics around, for example, such dichotomies as life and non-life or human and nature. Liv has a practice informed by queer and feminist perspectives and was during the period 2012-2020 running the platform FRANK together with artist Sille Storihle. 

Bugge has had solo presentations at, among other places: Marabouparken Konsthall in Stockholm, Kunstnernes Hus and Intercultural Museum in Oslo, and Sørlandets Kunstmuseum in Kristiansand. She is part of the 2022 Venice Biennale and has previously presented work at among others Gothenburg International Biennial for Contemporary Art. She is Associate Professor of Sculpture and Installation at the Academy of Fine Art in Oslo.

This course is open to HDK-Valand and KKH students.