Spanning two years, four locations, and a patchworked, online hub, the Post Design Tangle is a bind that ties together communities across the Nordics and the digital world; it’s an informal circuit of flashing cables and intimate, in-person conversations. In four chapters, the festival takes us deep into the theme of “entanglement,” where we’ll unravel the intersections, interconnections, and invisible strings that give shape to our visual and political surroundings.

The second chapter, SELF, took place from 23–24 September 2022 in central Oslo, Norway, and brought together four wildly inspiring designers and an artists' collective for two intense days — type designer and educator Laurenz Brunner, designer and queer publishing practitioner Noam Youngrak Son, designer, artist and AI design researcher Nushin Yazdani, designer and artist Sophie Douala, and Oslo-based artists’ collective Tenthaus.

Co-organized and hosted by Grafill, the festival investigated how the body, personal identity and the situated knowledge of the self/selves can inform the work of designers and artists.

I was very fortunate to get to interview the organizing team for Grafill before the festival commenced — interview in Norwegian, but try Google Translate!