The exhibition Sick and Desiring was activated and expanded through a series of discursive events. 

Sarah Browne, The Shambles of Science
Premier screening of new film followed by conversation with Sarah Browne, Iris Dressler and Nora Heidorn
6 September 2019 at Belgin, Bergen Assembly 2019

Sarah Browne's new film The Shambles of Science, featuring human and canine protagonists, makes a connection between two historical events: the involvement of Swedish physiology students Lizzie Af Hageby and Leisa Schartau in anti-vivisection protests in London; and the contemporaneous force- feeding of suffragettes held in Holloway prison. Central to the film is the way the bodies of both the dogs and the women were represented in the contemporary press as prone and unspeaking, whether subject to illegal experiments or resisting state-sanctioned ‘care’ in the prison system.


Sarah Browne, The Shambles of Science, 2019, 4K video, 27', sound, production photograph by Joshua Aylett


Politicising Healthcare: Activate Knowledgefrom the Health Movement
Workshop by Inga Zimprich from the Feminist Health Care Research Group
6 September 2019 at Hordaland Kunstsenter

In order to politicise health, we need to begin by learning to consider health as a space for political action and to empower ourselves to develop our own concepts of health and care. Inga Zimprich from the Feminist Health Care Research group invites you to formulate desires, re-activate knowledges from the Health Movement and to develop ideas for collective resistance.


Politicising Healthcare: Activate Knowledgefrom the Health Movement


Politicising Healthcare: Activate Knowledgefrom the Health Movement


Politicising Healthcare: Activate Knowledgefrom the Health Movement


Politicising Healthcare: Activate Knowledgefrom the Health Movement


Politicising Healthcare: Activate Knowledgefrom the Health Movement


Practising Radical Health Care
A free poster-publication by the Feminist Health Care Research Group (Julia Bonn & Inga Zimprich), commissioned for the exhibition Sick and Desiring as part of Bergen Assembly 2019.

“We publish this poster in hope of sharing multiple examples of practices which we learned from our colleagues and from protagonists of the Health Movement. Together we want to establish more radical bonds, leaving our internalized ableism behind. Together we want to move beyond (self-)exploitative modes of doing cultural work.“  -FHCRG





Hacking Science for a Transfeminist Narrative
Workshop by Paula Pin/BioTransLab
2 November 2019 at Hordaland Kunstsenter

In this workshop, we will explore the HardGlam Kit, an open-source gynaecological kit for self-diagnosis, originally designed as part of the transfeminist Gynepunk project. Participants will also learn to build and use their own microscopes. We will discuss the political implications and limitations of the kit itself and learn about ways to conduct basic self-care, free from the medical gaze of the clinic. Interested individuals from any background are invited to participate.

Hacking Science for a Transfeminist Narrative


3D printed model of a clitoris, Paula Pin


Hacking Science for a Transfeminist Narrative


Hacking Science for a Transfeminist Narrative


DIY Mircroscope dedicated to Mary Ward, Paula Pin


Cell analysis using microscopes made during the workshop


Referring to Juliana Cerqueira Leite’s A Potential Space, 2016, artist book


Taking water samples to analyse under the microscope from the swamp plant bogbean in the installation Phytogyne Garden, 2019 by Juliana Cerqueira Leite / Zoë Claire Miller


Cell analysis using microscopes made during the workshop

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