Krabstadt Education Center’s Open House

You are warmly invited to Krabstadt Education Center’s Open House event at Oslo Kunstforening.

The event starts at 18. Performance lecture at 18.30.

Krabstadt is where all the Nordic countries send their unwanted people and problems – different demographics, such as feminists, burned-out artist-teachers/teacher-artists, teachers, emotionally stuck creatures, the long-term unemployed and architects.

Krabstadt is a fictional town in the Arctic created by Ewa Einhorn and Jeuno JE Kim in a transmedia project also including artist/writer Karolin Meunier. Together, they present their most recent collaboration, the Krabstadt Education Center (KEC). The Open House aims to show and expand the wider network of participants that shape KEC.

On Friday February 10 they will introduce the Education Center where you can learn about the school’s different teaching methods, peek inside the fictional classrooms, and watch the documentation of their special online teaching format.

At the event the audience will be treated as KEC students to get a taste of what it means to study at their school, and why KEC could be the perfect place of learning. You will be served Indonesian Coffee and German well-being tea from the school’s Stuck Cafeteria, which is central to their learning method and pedagogy. This will be followed by a performance-lecture, that collates different student, teacher and admin voices from the school, and is a textual tour of the school building and facilities.

The evening is an excellent opportunity for students, parents, and pets to speak with our admissions representatives, and why KEC could be a place of learning for you: 
– Discover the academic program that best fits you and your educational goals
– Get detailed help on the admissions process, including information on financial aid, scholarship opportunities, housing, dining programs, and more
– Explore career opportunities specific to your area of study
– Explore how you can learn between fictional and real places of study.

Krabstadt consists of animated films, digital games, online as well as onsite performances, sculptures in public space, academic texts, and an art school. Krabstadt has now animated its Education Center (KEC) which traverses between being a drawn element in an animated fictional universe and an actual context hosting educational time. It seeks to exchange ideas on teaching methods and attitudes, learning outcomes and activities that are informed by performance, translation, digital and non-digital games.

For further reading visit krabstadt.com

Krabstadt Education Center (KEC) was initiated in 2020 and participated in the Jakarta Biennale 2021: ESOK and guest-edited the Spring 2022 issue of PARSE Journal for Artistic Research.

Karolin Meunier is an artist and writer. Her performance, text and video works observe how access to individual experience is accomplished through cultural techniques. Her research is oriented towards feminist writing strategies, translation processes, learning methods, and the politics of dialogue. She is part of the collective book shop and publisher b_books in Berlin; her artist book on the work of Italian feminist Carla Lonzi is forthcoming in 2023.

Ewa Einhorn is a visual artist and filmmaker working with animation, satirical drawing and documentary formats. She currently teaches at HDK-Valand, Gothenburg University. Influenced by popular culture, her work seeks to unhinge everyday assumptions by misusing language and images. The topics relate to the construction of societies, more specifically the relations between political rhetoric and nations as brands in the Nordic context. Since 2009 she has been working together with Jeuno JE Kim.

Jeuno JE Kim is an artist with a background in feminist theology, music, and radio. Kim’s artistic practice and research focus on sound, performance, video, and text. Her work is influenced by the ongoing modernization in Korea and the Pacific East region, and the urgency of the political, sociological, and cultural issues that permeate this reality such as nationalism, identity construction, and historical narration. Currently, she is the study leader of the BFA School at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts.

KEC is supported by the Nordic-Baltic Mobility Programme for Culture / Network funding by Nordic Culture Point and by the Swedish Research Council.