AGF: kuu-tee listening session - Circular session about language, translation, listening and spine

Welcome to kuu-tee listening session led by artist AGF at the Oulu Art Museum on Thursday 13 March at 4.30 pm–6 pm.

In the first kuu-tee session for 2025 we hold a circular session about language, translation, listening and spine. The meeting will be held in the Satula space.

The session is about anti-colonial language, micro-colonialisms and intra-community hierarchies, musicality of language. How do we deal with forms of micro-colonialism within us, our communities and ourselves, within our bodies and minds. Is adopting a dominant language a sacrifice? How to be open but stay strong? What is periphery and semi-periphery and how to live together in coexistence, how do we voice our voices within dominant cultures?

The language of the meeting is English, but informal interpretation will be provided in Finnish.

Communal listening meetings for all ages can be attended with a museum ticket. Museum Card, Kaikukortti and culture vouchers (Epassi, SmartumPay and Edenred's Virike card) are also accepted as a means of payment.

Read more about kuu-tee listening sessions on the Art Museum's website: https:/­/­ouluntaidemuseo.fi/­en/­exhibition/­agf-kuu-tee-listening-sessions/­

The session is based on a joint workshop, hosted by AGF and Lölä Florina Vlasenko at Taideturvapaikka on International Women’s Day March 8th, 2025. Art Refuge – TaideTurvapaikka, is an artistic research and workshop project developed by Lölä Florina Vlasenko in 2023. Together with local artists from Oulu, Vlasenko has organised community-based workshops on art and cultural well-being at the Oulu refugee reception centre in Heikinharju. At the core of TaideTurvapaikka is common humaneness and peace, accessibility of art and cultural well-being.