N*A*I*L*S hacks-facts-fictions, 2018

Workshop, lecture and video installation

Work. Service. Care / SPA. Toxic. Migration. Body. Class. Race. Sex. Gender. Politics. Story. Visa regime. Precarious entrepreneurship. Aesthetics. Fashion. Submission. Subversion. Knowledge. Appropriation. Shape, color, sound, language, touch, pictures. What can nails do?
After a semester of learning and questioning, hacking and re-imagining, the research group N * A * I * L * S invites you to take a look at the nail salon as a place of critical, trans*cultural and solidary practices. Objects, videos and encounters materialize questions about queer potentials, economies and identities, hegemonies and emancipation. During the exhibition, the exchanges between artists, activists and beauticians stay in movement and open up for visitors in conversational and manicuring transactions. 
N*A*I*L*S hacks* facts* fictions is a cross-faculty artistic research project on nail art in the contexts of migration, biopolitics and capitalism.