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Centre for
Nordic Otherwise
Centre for
Nordic Otherwise
Centre for Nordic Otherwise will be a cultural centre based in Copenhagen, Denmark established in a future near you. It is a creative home for emerging artists to build and sustain their commitments to liberatory work1 in the Nordic region. The Centre’s unique edge is its critical artist development curriculum.
Nordic Otherwise was initiated in response to the need for resources2 capable of supporting the Nordic racialized artist and the criticality of their art-making processes. We will run initiatives including an intensive course, community programming and independent scholarly research. We do this in cahoots with others in Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, and other western contexts. What we do is both intimate—touching the artist, their materials, and their deepest concerns—and meta—developing strategies capable of supporting critical art practice.3
BY US, FOR US
Nordic Otherwise is designed by and for4 emerging critical creative practitioners of the global majority (BIPoC) navigating life in western Nordic contexts. We will support folks who explore, for example, architecture and Black critical thought; textiles and ecofeminism; jazz and Islamophobia; ceramics and queerness; performance and disability studies; archiving and immigration; internet art and Indigenous knowledges, etc. We aim to be a trustworthy model for how to move towards divergence, autonomy, liberation, and plural realities in western Nordic contexts.KNOWLEDGE
In addition to addressing the needs of our artist community, we do academic research that aims to contribute to how art is taught, researched, evaluated, and understood. Nordic Otherwise designs interventions on the orderly academic apparatus of knowledge production. We seek to undiscipline5 critical artistic research.For more information or to support this project, contact Myriam D. Diatta at myriamddiatta[at]gmail[dot]com or visit myriamdiatta.com