Maziar Raein, Tale Næss Lystøl and Eliot Moleba, “Metalogue Tools”. Talk, Departments of Design and Theatre.

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Maziar Raein, Tale Næss Lystøl and Eliot Moleba, “Metalogue Tools”. Talk, Departments of Design and Theatre.

“A metalogue is a conversation about some problematic subject. This conversation should be such that not only do the participants discuss the problem but the structure of the conversation as a whole is also relevant to the same subject. Only some of the conversations here presented achieve this double format.”
Gregory Bateson, Steps to an Ecology of Mind

This project explores the means for manifesting Bateson’s double format by creating a design framework so that authors and audiences of differing backgrounds can share communally generated narratives.

Moreover, the structure of these narratives invites audiences into digitally generated reflective spaces, where over a space of time, the audience can; reflect upon, comment, share resources, ideas and references in order to create a democratic community of reflection.

The expected results will be achieved by the designing and structuring of a poetic data-bases which can be shared via website platforms. The narratives for this project are extended versions of those generated during the MONO.DIO.POLI.META.LOGUES project.

Maziar Raein is an Associate Professor at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts (KHiO). He holds a BA (Hons) in Fine Art and an MA in Independent Film from St.Martin’s School of Art (later known as CSM). His film work include; Underwater Productions which specialized in arts documentaries and short dramas with commissions from Channel 4 and F.4 Films which made I Used To Be In Pictures.

He later founded Codex Design were he was responsible for the branding and identity of many businesses, amongst them Lastminute.com. His company specialised in developing identities and distilling them into brands. Before moving to Oslo, he taught on the BA Graphics course at CSM, were he was Head of the Context programme. He has published and worked on projects that focus on the positive aspects of visual and spatial ability, reflective practice and methodology. Moreover, he was a regular contributor to Graphics magazine, as well as having works published in; Typographics, Eye magazine etc. On moving to Oslo he established the MA Design course at KHiO, setting up a number of research forums that focused on the development of teaching and learning in design.

He is involved in a number of research projects including MONO.DIO.POLI.META.LOUGES Tools which is a developmental tool for artistic research.

Tale Næss is a playwright, author and dramaturge based in Oslo and Tromsø.
She has a PhD in artistic research in playwriting from the Theatre Department at KHiO.

She has studied at the NTNU (MA in film science) at the University of Oslo and the University of Bergen. She has written and published collections of poetry, novels and two collections of dramatic text for stage and radio. She has also written opera librettos, film manuscripts and worked collaboratory across the field with musicians, composers, performers and visual artists. Tale Næss has made several dramatic installation works for the voice, the web, and the stage.

Many of her projects are experimental in nature and challenges the border between the performative, the visual and the literary.

Tale Næss has a special interest in the human voice and its expressive quality. In how it addresses us, and how it ties the one that addresses to "the other". This interest is frequently at the core of her work.

In her PhD she developed several texts for the stage, a series of immersive installation pieces, and two audio plays. Her focus as a researcher has been on the connection between the collective and the individual in texts written for the stage

Eliot Moleba is a South African Oslo-based scholar, writer, dramaturg, artivist, and director. He is one of the founding members of PlayRiot, a collective of playwrights committed to telling bold, contemporary South African stories. In many ways, he can be described as an ‘unreliable narrator’, because his style of writing is often characterised by a fictionalisation of real historical events. He was recently one of the contributing authors in the book “I Want to go Home forever” (edited by Loren B Landau and Tanya Pampalone), which was a collection of short stories by people who have been affected by xenophobic violence in and around Johannesburg. His short story in the book was later the subject of an investigative project between journalists and creative writers that resultedin a long form written piece and a podcast series. One of his long-term projects is to produce a 10-part series of artistic productions under the theme “The War You Don’t See”, looking at how global conflicts and migration impact and/or affect children’s lives. He was the resident dramaturg at The South African State Theatre. He is currently pursuing a PhD in Theatre Directing at The Oslo National Academy of the Arts.

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