Post Design Tangle CHAPTER 2: SELF

Noam Youngrak Son often physically inserts themselves in their work in a simultaneously personal and performative manner. Based in Ghent, praciticing communication design and deviant, queer publishing, they attempt to convey the stories of marginalized bodies which often include that of themselves into designed forms that do not conform to the cis-hetero-normative and colonial power structure. They inscribe myths for the underrepresented in various mediums, from books to public workshops to 3D printed sex toys. Noam’s talk at the tangle will be centered around domesticity as a method to resist the temptation for scale and spectacle and instead attempt to distribute the authority of a designer so that they’re no longer a singular and divine creator but a social being entangled in collective creative processes.

How designed interfaces and AI impacts us as individuals is entangled with our personal identities. Berlin based transformation designer, artist and AI design researcher Nushin Yazdani works at the intersection of machine learning, design justice and intersectional feminist practices, and writes about the systems of oppression of the present and the possibilities of just and free futures. Through experimental online spaces such as the AI research, advocacy and art platform Dreaming Beyond AI, Nushin critically promotes the collective reimagination of better futures. Image: Dreaming Beyond AI is a collaborative project by Nushin Yazdani, R. Buse Çetin, Iyo Bisseck and Sarah Diedro Jordão, created in partnership with ifa (Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen).

Artist Jacky Jaan-Yuan Kuo and artistic researcher Valentina Martinez will join us at the tangle to represent the Oslo based art collective Tenthaus. Itself a tangle of artistic outputs, Tenthaus currently encompasses both a project room and an exhibition space, a mobile studio, and a wide range of curatorial projects. They focus on local contexts exploring collectivity and inclusion through different forms of engagement. As a collective Tenthaus reimagines themselves and what it means to be artists working with the public, and what makes a relevant socially engaged practice today. How is the practice of the individual informed by participation in open co-creation, collective discussion and community lead environments?

Sophie Douala is a Berlin based, France raised, Cameroon born artist and creative director specialised in storytelling and creative campaigns. In her practice and life, she seeks to explore the interplay between a formal visual language and its cognitive and emotional affect. Sophie's aesthetics are both very personal and immediately inviting to the audience, mixing the painful with the colorful, and politics with beauty. Currently with a solo exhibition at Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, we are excited to learn more about how and why Sophie Douala inserts herself in her complex and immersive work when she takes the stage at the Post Design Tangle in Oslo.

Hang on tight as we are about to announce the final speaker for the Oslo Tangle!