Arts
Kirsty Kross Considering collegial exchange, informal peer-to-peer/practice-to-practice learning, and attempts at friendship as a fundamental part of our remit, UKS introduced a new, weekly walk-in-workshop in January 2019, called HOW TO PRACTICE? Starting off the workweek every Monday morning at 10am during exhibition periods, rotating local and international practitioners in the cultural field teach their conspicuous version of this essential question, serving up their tricks and toolboxes, fears and desires, excel sheets, or yoga positions as UKS serves free coffee. For the twentieth walk-in-workshop, Oslo-based artist KIRSTY KROSS will play with notions of how to be an artist during the climate crisis. Working mainly in performance, Kross often uses her biography and body as a starting point to talk about wider themes. At UKS she will discuss how to “stay with the trouble” through keeping it light, so that it can then get deep, by asking questions such as: Did she choose to perform as a fish, or did the fish choose her? What is an Anthropocene Nun and could this be a cool ’n’ sexy lifestyle choice? How does one surf the waves of chaos and imperfection and disrupt the attention economy all whilst falling down the stairs at Kunstnernes Hus? #20 How to Practice? took place on 16.09.2019 www.uks.no/archive/how-to-practice/ www.uks.no/archive/20-htp-kirsty-kross/