Behind an unsuspecting door on a rainy street in Oslo, a small group of people came together across two days to reimagine what bodies could be. The workshop “Chimera Gastronomy”, led by Noam Youngrak Son, offered a sticky, existensialist investigation into (co)existence via edible mediums.

In order to understand the self, you need to know what to call it. From the Tangle in Oslo, Laurenz Brunner takes us on an onomastic journey.

Artist Jacky Jaan-Yuan Kuo and artistic researcher Valentina Martinez joined 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.

A dive into the cultural, social, political and ecological ‘self’, questioning the notion of the ‘individual’ and a call towards connected ways of being.

After giving the closing talk at the second chapter of the Post Design Tangle in Oslo in September 2022, we checked back in with Sophie Douala to hear more about her reflective approach to her practice and how (and if) she separates herself from her work.

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. These are takeaways and resources from her talk at the Tangle.

Noam 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.

The artist collective Tenthaus, represented by artist Jacky Jaan-Yuan Kuo and artistic researcher Valentina Martinez, gave a talk at the second chapter of the Post Design Tangle, which took place in Oslo in September 2022. Afterwards we checked in with Jacky and Valentina to learn more about their thoughts on collectivity, collaboration and how to know whether what you are doing is working.

Noam Youngrak Son was the first speaker to take the stage at the second chapter of the Post Design Tangle, which took place in Oslo in September 2022. After getting home, we checked back in with Noam to chat about chimera creatures, adaptability and crab meat.

Sophie 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. In her lecture we learn more about how and why Sophie Douala inserts herself in her complex and immersive work.