NSFW is proud to present The City is Your Eighth Finger, Your Forehead is Canopy curated by Keiu Krikmann and featuring nick von kleist, Zody Burke, Pire Sova, and Ando Naulainen. The exhibition runs through 6 December 2023 and will be available as an online PDF and a physical newsprint edition. A limited edition artwork in poster format has also been produced as part of the exhibition.
The online PDF, which also includes an introductory text by Tallinn-based Keiu Krikmann, is available at www.svilova.org. Copies of the newsprint edition will be available at NSFW headquarters and several art venues throughout the city. Furthermore, Zody Burke’s work, Post-Westernalia I, will be displayed in poster format on 31 public billboards around Gothenburg for the entire month of November, or until we run out of copies.
ABOUT THE CURATOR
–Keiu Krikmann is a curator, writer and translator. She also works as the managing editor of A Shade Colder magazine. Her latest curatorial projects include “Excess and Refusal” in 2020 at the Kim? Centre for contemporary art in Riga and 2021 at the Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia; “Her Legs, an Egg, Her Toil(e) and Blankets” at the Tallinn City Gallery in 2022; “Naturally, It Is Not” (co-curated with Darja Popolitova) at the Estonian Museum of Applied Art and Design in 2023.
nvk (nick von kleist) is an artist, poet, performer and producer who investigates the archive and its debris as repertoire to be rehearsed, fractured and reconfigured, repeatedly. nvk explores ways the virtual and personal can inspire new conceptions of context, time, access and equity. nvk has recently published a metamorphic book of poetry, “w-a-t-e-r-s-l-i-d-e-s” with Risiko Press (Antwerp), appearing as sound with Ignota Press, and a performance with Montez Press Radio (NY). nvk has ongoing performance-based collaborations with Michelangelo Miccolis, Kris Lemsalu, Autumn Knight, Cally Spooner, Nikima Jagudajev, and Dora García.
Pire Sova and Ando Naulainen are artists living in Tallinn, Estonia. Sova primarily works with installation and stage design. Naulainen works with video, sound and image manipulation. Since 2017, they co-run an ongoing participatory performance series Persona that focuses on exploring the self and community identity. The event series takes on different forms, such as installations, readings, dress-up events and a radio show. In addition to Sova and Naulainen, Persona often involves a number of participants, with the aim to provide a space for researching different ways of expression.
Zody Burke is an American multimedia artist and musician living and working in Tallinn, Estonia. She creates cyphers through sculpture and sound, through which she cartographs the complexity of identity within late capitalism, and interfaces world-building with geological time. Her material practice ranges from ceramic high-relief to experimental music, video, illustration and fibre work.