MEMORYWORK is a platform for sharing interdisciplinary artistic research on performative memory work. The project is developed by artists with backgrounds in Choreography, Theatre, Performance Art and Art in Public Spaces, and comes out of a research collaboration between the departments of Dance and Art & Craft at KHIO.

For more information: 
https://memorywork.no

Project Lab # Mapping the field
Day 1 – 26th January – led by Per Roar
Day 2 – 27th January – led by Merete Røstad

MEMORYWORK day 1  

Per Roar works as a choreographer, performer, and artist-researcher, and has an interdisciplinary background and strong concern for socio-political matters. He combines strategies from social research with somatic approaches to make choreography and public art, as seen in his doctoral project Docudancing Griefscapes (2015) from UniArts Helsinki. 

Per Roar holds the position as a Professor and Head of MA Choreography at the Department of Dance at KHIO, and is together with Merete Røstad, project leader of MEMORYWORK.

Eliot Moleba is a researcher, playwright and theatre director. He is one of the founding members of PlayRiot. He was the resident dramaturg at The South African State Theatre. He is currently a Research Fellow at KHiO and an Editorial Committee member of VIS – The Nordic Journal for Artistic Research. 

Manuel Pelmuş.is a choreographer and artist who lives and works in Oslo and Bucharest. Pelmuş could be seen as one of the protagonists of the “new performance turn,” artists who have been reimagining the role of performance in the context of visual arts. He often deploys continuous live presence within the context of exhibitions, using enactment as a strategy and the human body as a medium and a means to explore the body’s relationship to memory and the construction of history. His projects have been featured at several major institutions internationally. Pelmuş was awarded the Berlin Art Prize for performance arts in 2012. He represented Romania at the 55th Venice Biennale with a collaborative project with Alexandra Pirici in 2013, and he received the prize for excellence from the National Dance Center of Bucharest in 2015. Manuel Pelmuş has since 2019 been a research fellow at the Academy of Fine Arts Oslo (KHIO) with his PhD project: https://khioda.khio.no/khio-xmlui/handle/11250/2618469

Myna Trustram has worked in England for many years as a historian, curator and academic. In 2021 she stopped paid work in institutions and focus now on being a writer. She writes short experimental essays in which she calls upon literary and academic forms to consider themes such as mourning, loss and separation.