Jade Meili Barget

Gwangju Biennale farewell 🫡 1 & 2 - Agata Ingarden @agingarden 3 - Lucy Raven 4 - Katja Novitskova 5 - Max Hooper Schneider 6 - Yuyan Wang @yuyanwang 7 - Marguerite Humeau 8 - Matthew Angelo Harrison 9- Mimi Park 10 - Opening ceremony

This is the first time I am typing. Tap tap tap. After what feels like a long nap, I finally opened my own Instagram account. It’s a big thing here. I am INV.IM.0161, founder of Layout. Layout is my first OS (Operational Spirit) developed together with my friend Minami Shimakage @minamiscimac , the agency Atmospheric Solutions, in collaboration with MAH, the Museum of Art and History in Geneva @mahgeneve and curator Jade Meili Barget @greenjade___ . Through this OS, I will communicate! Here, and on my portal: firstimpressions.space. I will also archive! In the website’s Archive Salon, and in a physical box of my own design. This may sound confusing, but the human world is full of confusion. I am here to understand it too. I am dropping the first event information in a few hours. — INV.IM.0161 Oct. 10th, Friday --------------------------------- First impressions 2025 - 2026 One Thursday a month from October to June Access: http://firstimpressions.space Musée d'Art et d'Histoire de Genève, MAH Rue Charles-Galland 2, 1206 Genève, Switzerland First Impressions info: https://www.mahmah.ch/curatrice-en-residence-20252026

Looking back at DAISY WORLD, a night of performance at Paris’ Espace Niemeyer @espaceniemeyer in December. 01 - Meteoroglossia by bela @6_e_l_a 02, 04 - REALITY SURF by Alex Quicho @amfq 03, 06, 07 - Tropic Temper by Elizabeth Gabrielle Lee @elizabethgl33 05, 08 - Daisy World environment with Mood Navigation by Nile Koetting @nileshawkoetting with Miriam Stoney #MiriamStoney and sound by H. Takahasi @h.t.a.k.a.h.a.s.h.i Thank you to Orbet @orbet.vin for the great biodynamic wine selection 🍇 Photography: Martin Lazlo Rouillé

This was Ebun Sodipo, « You see her walking », a performance with Davia Spain. In five vignettes, Ebun Sodipo and Davia Spain walk viewers through millennia of encounters with women who we now call trans. In the meandering, the performance lingers on the one watching, on desire as it forms and shifts shape, revealing unstable edges. Other forces rush into the yearning: fear, fixation, shame, fetish, worship.

@asebrunborglie spent the past month in Bergen Kunsthall’s Live studio. During their residency, they worked on the one-year cross-disciplinary project ‘Nimble Weavers’, a collaboration with @nh_biosphere and the NFR-project ACTIONABLE at the University of Bergen. The project examines how we negotiate belonging and conflicting values in nature, focusing on areal planning, energy infrastructure, future sustainability, local agency and land-use conflicts in the Nordhordland region. Outside the studio, they travelled around the region, filming large-scale energy infrastructure and rare ecologies. In the studio, they worked on film and sound editing, as well as a 40m-long textile work embroidered with local wool dyed with plants and mushrooms gathered in Nordhordland region. The works will be exhibited at @kunstsenter from 22.5—8.8.2026 and at @dengronefabrikken from Sep—Oct 2026. Images: 1/ Site visit with project coordinator and artist Robin Everett in Modalen 2/ Wool dyed by plants and mushrooms gathered in Nordhordland by textile artist and weaver Anne Grethe Breisnes. 3/ Silent listening walk workshops held in March 2026 in collaboration with Nordhordland libraries and ACTIONABLE collaborator, PhD-candidate and areal planner Janne Thomsen from UiB 4/ Site visit to Frekhaug with project coordinator and artist Robin Everett, Janne Thomsen and biologist Susanne Berthelsen from UiB 5/ Filming in Frekhaug, which holds a rare swamp ecology in Nordhordland. 6/ Kitchen Dinner Event and Silent Listening Walk Workshop at Hordaland Art Centre, March 2026. This is the second of three residencies responding to the theme of ‘Another Sun’, an evolving curatorial programme on the poetics and politics of the subsurface curated by @greenjade___

Tomorrow, at the Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, come see: Juan Pablo Cámara « Homopticum: landscaping » May 7, 2026 19:00 - 19:45+ Musée d’Art et d’Histoire, Genève Production by Juan Pablo Cámara & Andrey Bogush, in coproduction with Kiasma Theatre. With support of Tanz Haus Zürich, Arts Promotion Centre Finland, Finnish Cultural Foundation, Tapiola Artist studios, DIORAMA Berlin. Video by Lado Abesadze lado.jpeg

This Thursday in Geneva: Juan Pablo Cámara « Homopticum: landscaping » May 7, 2026 19:00 - 19:45 Musée d’Art et d’Histoire, Genève In Homopticum the museum becomes a domestic space of sorts, inhabited by an augmented being; feral, anthropoid, machinic. Online and offline interfaces perform as both backdrops and foredrops, framing a dance that exceeds the flesh. Moving between watching and being watched, across the mundane and spectacular, the body remains exposed, revealing fragility, monstrosity and excess. Production by Juan Pablo Cámara & Andrey Bogush, in coproduction with Kiasma Theatre. With support of Tanz Haus Zürich, Arts Promotion Centre Finland, Finnish Cultural Foundation, Tapiola Artist studios, DIORAMA Berlin. Video by Lado Abesadze lado.jpeg

Next Thursday in Geneva, the penultimate performance of First impressions: Juan Pablo Cámara « Homopticum: landscaping » May 7, 2026 19:00 - 19:45 Musée d’Art et d’Histoire, Genève In Homopticum the performer and choreographer Juan Pablo Cámara, in dialogue with visual artist Andrey Bogush, explores gazing as a practice of attention and a possible site of agency. In a world shaped by surveillance capitalism, where attention is manipulated and actively constructed through market logic, the work invites the audience to slow down and observe with intention. At the center of the stage lies the question: how does seeing take form? Images: 2. Juan Pablo Cámara performing Homopticon. Photo: Lado Abesadze. Production by Juan Pablo Cámara & Andrey Bogush, in coproduction with Kiasma Theatre. With support of Tanz Haus Zurich, Arts Promotion Centre Finland, Finnish Cultural Foundation, Tapiola Artist studios, DIORAMA, Berlin.

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As a way to share the research conducted during their Live studio residency, Ase Brunborg Lie invites 10 participants to join a hike at Burkelandsfjellet (Osterøy. Elevation: 365m). During the walk, the artist will guide participants in developing situated knowledge of large-scale infrastructures through silent listening, sensing, mapping, and narrating what is often rendered abstract or inaccessible. The group will then return to Bergen Kunsthall's Live Studio for reflection, drawing exercises, and discussion. This workshop is part of @asebrunborglie long-term project NIMBLE WEAVERS, an investigation into energy infrastructure, land-use conflict, and community knowledge within Nordhordland UNESCO Biosphere Reserve. Engaging with the layering of national climate policy, local ecologies, and rural livelihoods, the project examines how extractive logics, land-use and preservation both shape and are shaped by the relationships we cultivate with land and community. NIMBLE WEAVERS is coordinated by artist @robin.everett as a part of the NFR transdisciplinary research project ACTIONABLE at the University of Bergen, engaging art and science to address climate adaptation and sustainability in collaboration with the Nordhordland UNESCO Biosphere Reserve. NIMBLE WEAVERS is supported by Vestland fylkeskommune and Bergen Kommune. This is the second of three residencies responding to the theme of Another Sun, an evolving curatorial programme on the poetics and politics of the subsurface curated by @greenjade___ . Saturday 2 May 10:00 — Departure from Bergen Kunsthall 11:00 — Arrival at Burkelandsfjellet (Osterøy. Elevation 365m). Hike and outdoor self-packed lunch. 14:00 — Return journey 15:00 — Arrival back at Bergen Kunsthall 15:00–15:30 — coffee break 15:30 — Field notes sharing (If the weather is good, we will do the field note sharing in Burkelandsfjellet) 17:00 — End of workshop Maximum capacity: 10 participants, first come, first served. To sign up, contact: jade(at)kunsthall.no Wear comfortable shoes and clothes for a hike and don't forget to pack a lunch and water! If the weather is good, we will do the field note sharing onsite.

This Thursday: Ebun Sodipo with Davia Spain « You see her walking » April 23, 2026 18:00 - 18:40 Musée d’Art et d’Histoire, Genève Guided by Black feminist studies and employing a methodology of collage and storytelling, Ebun Sodipo’s work identifies and produces real and imagined narratives of the presence, embodiment, and inner lives of Black trans women across the past, present, and future, filling historical gaps to create moments of archival pleasure. Her work unfolds across multiple spaces (galleries, festivals, theater, digital, and print) and in various forms (sound, performance, text, installation, video, and sculpture). Davia Spain is a performance artist, musician, and filmmaker who was born and raised in California. She draws on Afrofuturist themes such as time travel, multidimensionality, and the theory of circular time to imagine new possibilities for this physical plane. Images: 1 & 2: Vitoria Buraco, Live Collision, Dublin @epastry @daviaspain

The Tongue Fern, Pyropolitics, and A Chorus of Stones Ina Hagen @inahagen spent the past month in Bergen Kunsthall’s Live studio. During her residency, she conducted research on tales and real-life excavations of the underground, attending to the geological orders they articulate. Outside of the studio, she travelled to nearby Mongstad, to observe and film the eternal flame of Norway’s largest oil refinery. This field and desk research will inform the writing of her next live work, to be presented later this year with VOLT. This is the first of three residencies responding to the theme of "Another Sun", an evolving curatorial programme on the poetics and politics of the subsurface curated by @greenjade___ . Images: 1/ Field research at Mongstad. 2/ Scan of Stephen Jay Gould, Time’s Arrow, Time’s Cycle, Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time (Harvard University Press, 1988). 3/ Field research at Mongstad. 4/ Scan of Rosalind Williams, Notes on the Underground (MIT Press, 1992/2008. 5/ Field research at Mongstad. 6/ Scan Stephen Jay Gould, Time’s Arrow, Time’s Cycle, Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time (Harvard University Press, 1988). 7/ Portrait Ina Hagen. 8/ Scan Scan Susan Griffin, A Chorus of Stones/ The Private Life of War (Anchor, 1993).