Running from February 13th until May 3rd at Kunstnernes Hus in Oslo, No Master Territories: Feminist Worldmaking and the Moving Image bridges the fields of documentary and experimental film and video, offering an expansive, intersectional account of underappreciated encounters between feminism and the moving image.
No Master Territories: Feminist Worldmaking and the Moving Image is dedicated to works of nonfiction that seek to invent new audiovisual languages for the representation of gendered experience. Concentrating primarily on the period of the 1970s to 1990s, a time when women’s liberation movements took hold internationally, it stages an expansive encounter as an act of intergenerational memory. Through a presentation of films and videos alongside documents and artworks, it pays homage to the important work of the past and responds to the urgencies of today. As the outcome of research conducted in dialogue with collaborators from around the world, presented in its first iteration at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, in 2022, the project aims to enlarge available histories by tracing multiple genealogies that circumvent the impasses of contemporary neoliberal feminisms
Curated by Erika Balsom with Silja Espolin Johnson and Clemens Ottenhausen, No Master Territories: Feminist Worldmaking and the Moving Image is a new edition of an exhibition previously presented at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin in 2022 and The Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw in 2023, by Erika Balsom and Hila Peleg.