Monday January 25
All Day Open Exhibition! "Materiality draws human attention sideways”, Marte Johnslien.
Exhbition open!
10:00 - 11:50 Workshop, “The Alternative Histori[es] Project“, Eliot Moleba, Theatre.
This workshop offers the first glimpse of the collected stories. It invites you into the artistic process of translating each story into a monument to commemorate the lived experiences. It’s also a call-out for potential collaborators at KHiO (and beyond), keen to be part of the construction of these monuments.
13:00 - 14:20 Presentation, “Vulnerability”, Maziar Raein. Design.
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.
15:00 - 15:40 Exhibition Artist Talk, "Materiality draws human attention sideways”, Marte Johnslien. Art and Craft.
“Materiality draws attention sideways”
Marte Johnslien
Marte Johnslien presents new sculptures in process and gives an artist talk based on her recent investigations into the practice of late British artist Gillian Lowndes. The works will be presented in an upcoming trio exhibition in FOLD gallery, London, with Gillian Lowndes, Lydia Gifford and Marte Johnslien.
16:00 - 16:50 Book Launch, “Love With Obstacles”, Dora Garcia. Fine Art.
Love with Obstacles (Amor Rojo) brings together Spanish artist Dora García’s collaborative research on the life and legacy of Alexandra Kollontai (1872–1952)—a revolutionary, socialist….
18:00 - 20:00 OPENING EVENT
Fernanda Branco, Artistic Research PhD fellow, Theatre Department.
Camille Norment, Prorector of research, KHiO
Tuesday January 26
All Day Open Exhibition! Melissa Gordon. Fine Art.
Exhbition open!
09:00 - 10:50 Workshop, “Gjentagelsens Frihet” Karen Disen. Design. (in Norwegian)
Workshop
Dette påbegynte jeg i 1988 for å illustrere hva som skal til av opptegning for å karakteriserer en form. Kravet var at en lett skulle kjenne igjen formen ved ulike framstillinger. Dette eksempelet er basert på trekanten…
11:00 - 12:20 Panel Discussion, “Conversation Choreography”, Andre Eierman, moderator. Research Fellows. Dance.
With: Dragana Bulut, Mette Edvardsen, Rosalind Goldberg, Manuel Pelmus, Eszter Salamon.
Within the framework of the research week, the Ph.D. candidates departing from choreography and dance, come together in a self-organized seminar together with an invited moderator. The seminar starts with a day closed session dedicated to interests and questions each fellow currently works with….
13:00 - 14:20 Panel Discussion, “CRISIS-----CARE”, Bojana Cvejic, moderator. Dance. Theodor Barth, moderator. Design.
Care is omnipresent, even through the effects of its absence. Like a longing emanating from the troubles of neglect, it passes within, across, throughout things. Its lack undoes, allows unraveling. To care can feel good; it can also feel awful. It can do good; it can oppress.
María Puig de la Bellacasa, Matters Of Care
15:00 - 15:50 Exhibition Artist Talk, Melissa Gordon. Fine Art.
Gesture, Liquidity and Archiving Female Voices.
This talk will outline recent research of artist Melissa Gordon on the relationship to voice and gesture in painting, and describe her current process of archiving a ten year long feminist project around voice.
16:00 – 17:20 Presentation, “Material agency and the performing arts”, Christina Lindgren, Sodja Lotker. Design and Performing Arts.
VIDEO
Material agency and the performing arts
Costume Agency Artistic Research Project project researches the agency of costume in performance and how costume can generate or be a centre of gravitation in performance.
18:00 - 20:00 Performative Demonstration, “Flying Blind”, Kristin Norderval. Opera.
My PhD research project at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts Opera department examines the technical, physical and pedagogical challenges that opera singers face in relation to the use of interactive audio processing technology in opera.
Flying Blind, is a new work for solo voice and interactive audio processing that I premiered in concert on August 28, 2020 at Sentralen in Oslo.
Wednesday January 27
All Day Open Exhibition! «Utprøving av digitale tegneverktøy», Tiril Schrøder. Art and Craft.
Exhbition of Tiril Schrøder open!
All Day Open Exhibition! “Curious Cabinets”, Bjørn Blikstad. Design.
Exhbition of Bjørn Blikstad open!
09:00 - 10:50 Workgroup, Sally Dean. Design.
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.
11:00 - 12:20 Exhibition Artist Talk, “Curious Cabinets”, Bjørn Bilkstad. Design.
Presentation of the finished furniture-like artefacts, the Peacock Cabinet and the Dawkins-Kardashian Stele, by the unfinished Selvskap: an embodiment of myself that manifests on the horizon as the work congregates into a stable compound.
13:00 - 13:50 Conversation, “Transpositions -JAR, M.Edvartsen and modular diaries”, Theodor Barth, Mette Edvardsen moderators. All dep.
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.
14:00 - 14:50 Presentation, "Reflexive Dramaturgy", Tore Vagn Lid. Theatre.
Inspired by this (directorial) approach, and now also for an English-speaking audience, this new work attempts to follow a three-part dramaturgy, where artistic, scenic reflection – produced in different forms of performances – is brought back to the forms of reflection of the writing and the book, and then again becomes subject to new artistic forms of reflection.
15:00 - 15:50 Exhibition Artist Talk, «Utprøving av digitale tegneverktøy», Tiril Schrøder. Art and Craft. (in Norwegian)

- Selvutviklet skjema for testing av streker og notere inntrykk fra selve tegneopplevelsen.
- En serie kopier av samme tegning, etter J.C. Dahl for å se eventuelt utslag på en ferdig tegning.
16:00 - 17:20 Presentation, “Polyvocal Tongue”, Tale Næss. Theatre.
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.
18:00 - 19:20 Film Screening, “Love With Obstacles”, Dora Garcia. Academy of Fine Art.
Love with Obstacles (Amor Rojo) brings together Spanish artist Dora García’s collaborative research on the life and legacy of Alexandra Kollontai (1872–1952)—a revolutionary, socialist….
Thursday January 28
All Day Open Exhibition! Petrine Vinje. Art and Craft.
Exhbition of Petrine Vinje open!
09:00 - 11.20 Workshop, “Map Ethics”, Anne-Helen Mydland, Jostein Gundersen. The Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design (KMD), University in Bergen.
11:30 - 12:45 Exhibition Artist Talk, "Objective Enactive” and Conversation on Urban Ecologies, Petrine Vinje. Art and Craft.
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.
14:00 - 16.50 Panel Discussion, “Memory Work”, Merete Røstad. Art and Craft.
MEMORY WORK comes out of a research collaboration at Oslo National Academy of the Arts (KHIO) between the departments of Dance and Art & Craft. The project involves an international group of artist-researchers, including research fellows at KHIO, as core members.
17:00 - 17.50 Presentation, “Mediating Uncertainties”, Susan Schuppli invited by Sara Eliason. Fine Art.
Susan Schuppli
invited by Sara Eliassen
Susan Schuppli´s presentation is the first event in the lecture series Mediating Uncertainties, part of Sara Eliassen´s PhD project at the Academy of Fine Arts, KHIO.
In Mediating UncertaintiesEliassen invites writers and practitioners to respond through their own practices to the questions and themes at the core of her ongoing PhD project in artistic research.
18:30 - 20:00 CLOSING EVENT
Fernanda Branco, Ph.D. Candidate Artistic Research. Theatre Department.
A collective stitched soundscape narrative of remembrances. Practicing ways of listening and remembering.