Dis Mon Nom on friendship

Best friends, distant friends, work and play friends, few friends or lots of them, battle buddies, party buddies, allies and frenemies, chosen family or accidental besties - friendship comes in all smells and colours and shapes and sizes. All these different friendships and how they influence our experiences and identities add up to a social phenomenon of stature.
And yet, friendship is hardly the subject of study. It remains surprisingly absent from institutes of knowledge and cultural or political events (where it often has to stand in the shadow of romantic love or family ties).
This is what curatorial collective Dis Mon Nom wants to change. The aim is to organise a multi-day friendship festival in the future. The plan for now is an invitation for you and all your friends to come along and think, talk and workshop about friendship.
And to stimulate the festival imagination, there is another important detail: friendship karaoke!!!!!

Dis Mon Nom is a nomadic curatorial platform that organises exhibitions, conversations, performances and encounters. Founded by Déborah Claire and Erell Hemmer, both photographers, Dis Mon Nom offers a retort to an overly visual (art) world that still tends to exclude certain identities and bodies. By means of intersectional, feminist and inclusive collaborations with artists, institutions and other cultural players, Dis Mon Nom calls these things by their names. Because to name them is to make them exist.
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