Isak Wisløff

Isak Wisløff (b.1989)

Assistant Professor of Furniture Design at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts.

Curator and co-founder of the artist-run space Hulias in Oslo.

Wisløff’s
artistic practice is eclectic, multimedial and interdisciplinary. He works in
the cross-sections between design and fine art. He seeks the universal human through
the code of three statements.
Dopamining is an ongoing artistic research project that is a result av a method Wisløff has named deschiphering

1. Everyone is a composite made of
flesh, guts and bones.

2. Everyone is a consumer of things and
culture.

3. Everyone is spiritual in one way or
another.
Dopamining
is an ongoing artistic research project where Wisløff tests
a method he has named Deciphering. By decoding a device back to its natural habitat and material
origin several narratives occur. In this case, the device is an iPhone.

Work Group

Objective Enactive
This online lecture-demonstration unfolds the term ´Poetic Materiality´ within the context of designing and choreographing with Somatic Costumes. Through critiquing and applying the somatic practice of Skinner Releasing Technique, the poetics of philosopher Gaston Bachelard and the materiality of anthropologist Tim Ingold, this talk begins to map poetic and material agencies between bodies-costumes within the design-performance encounter.

Artist Talk

Objective Enactive

This talk will focus on the first outcome of Glitsch(ening) Ci(rculari)ty, a tripartite site-specific, where I am pursuing a speculative exploration of the ecology of the city, between the urban and the biological, unfolding its layers and materiality of time. The talk will end in a conversation between fellow researchers and artists in the collaborative project Urban Ecologies, where Glitsch(ening) Ci(rculari)ty, is generated from.

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Presentation

Polyvocal Tongue The presentation will focus on relational ethics and polyvocality in performative text. It will also explore the use of plural languages in a play, looking at how a polylingual praxis can open up new aesthetic potential in playwrighting and in artistic research in general.

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Conversation

TRANSPOSITIONS— JAR, Mette Edvardsen and modular diaries At the start, the idea for an artistic research conversation with Mette Edvardsen did not spring out of the topics shortlisted for the conference—hospitality, vulnerability and care—but a book that she had co-edited, and dropped in my shelf.

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Panel Discussion

The Ethics of Vulnerability and Artistic Research

Any ethical framework must take account of the vulnerability of the human condition. This is significant in all creative endeavours – especially in artistic practice and the teaching of it – since the very act of creating something and putting it out into the world is an expression of vulnerability.

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