Bojana Cvejić’swork spans philosophy, theater and performance-making and performance education. She is author of several books (a.o. Choreographing Problems, Palgrave 2015, Public Sphere by Performance, with A. Vujanović, bbooks 2012 and three volumes of A Choreographer’s Score with A. T. De Keersmaeker, Mercatorfonds 2011-13) and collaborated on many theater and dance works as dramaturge/performer/writer since 1996. Cvejić is Professor of Dance and Dance Theory at the Oslo National Academy of Arts and teaches at P.A.R.T.S. Brussels. She has been the co-founding member of TkH collective (Belgrade) 2000-2016 with whom she realized many journals, performance and other projects. Among more recent works, in 2013, she curated the exhibition Danse-Guerre at Musée de la danse, Rennes and in 2014, she devised a choreography and lecture program titled Spatial Confessions for Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall. Cvejić is currently completing a book (co-written with Vujanovic) Toward a Transindividual Self(Archive Books, forthcoming).

Theodor Barth
An anthropologist working in artistic collaborations on the experimental backdrop of philosophical queries, Theodor Barth is broadly engaged in the clarification of design as a duplicating practice: transposing experimental query unto sensorial reflection through acts of making. His work aims at developing a practical understanding of how particular facts can hatch specific understandings, with a substantial bearing on broader issues in artistic research. He has developed a method of portraiture as a hatching ground for collaborative ventures with colleagues in the design-field, at universities and the art-field (visual and performing). Portraits are intermediate creations between knowledge and understanding. The portraits enter small data-sets—HEX—that are made up of 6 portraits in flyer-format (A5), that are assemblages in the sense that the elements are permutable, yet structured according to a certain logic. These data-sets similarly aim to portray certain topics, in the form of modular diaries, and the more recent ones have been uploaded on the school’s knowledge database (KHiODA), responding to the encouragement of the KHiO-library to do so. Featuring theory development as a distinctive practice, and exploring what artistic research could be in the area of theory development. This activity has been ongoing for about 10 years in collaborative ventures involving Victor Boullet, Dag Erik Elgin, Jan Pettersson and Peter Burgess (ENS). But also to hatch a joint method of feedback and documentation of the theory curriculum of the MA in design. He has been involved in book and editing projects with: Martin Lundell, Dragos Gheorghiu, Ane Thon Knutsen and FormAkademisk (a special issue on drawing at the occasion of Bicentennial of the Drawing School in 2018). He published a comprehensive review of the book Transpositions(ed. Schwab 2018) in Journal of Aristic Research in 2019. Currently engaged with learning from the Corona pandemic, in activities involving hybrid platforms of encounter in virtual/actual space.

https://khioda.khio.no/khio-xmlui/handle/11250/2722434

Mette Edvardsen

The work of Mette Edvardsen is situated within the performing arts field as a choreographer and performer. Although some of her works explore other media or other formats, such as video, books and writing, her interest is always in their relationship to the performing arts as a practice and a situation. She has worked for several years as a dancer and performer for a number of companies and projects, and develops her own work since 2002. She presents her works internationally and continues to develop projects with other artists, both as a collaborator and as a performer. A retrospective of her work was presented at Black Box theatre in Oslo in 2015, and the focus program Idiorritmias at MACBA in Barcelona in 2018. Her project Time has fallen alseep in the afternoon sunshine is ongoing since 2010, and develops in various formats. The project was part of the long term program of osloBIENNALEN FIRST EDITION 2019 – 2024 in Oslo. 

The ongoing PhD project “Level up” which focus on ornaments, woodcarving, cabinetmaking and writing by making Curious Cabinetsis hatched from Bjørn Jørund Blikstad (1981) former teaching in furniture design at Oslo National Academy of the Arts and freelance designer work (2010-2018), as a consequence of his maladaptive juggling of commercial and academic considerations/values.

Petrine Vinje is an artist based in Oslo.She received her MA in Fine Art at the Institute of Colour, Oslo National Academy of the Arts in 2005. Her sculptural installations often combine audiovisual and textual elements in a large scope of materials, where she explores ideas about belief, temporality and spatiality in the systems of the material and immaterial. Vinje`s artistic practice is informed by mysticism, technology, phenomenology and feminist theory.

Petrine Vinje has been conducting temporal, transdisciplinary projects in public space, commissions and artistic research projects. Her work have been exhibited in a number of national and international group exhibitions, and in solo exhibitions at Fotogalleriet, Oslo (2018), the Museum of Cultural History, University of Oslo (2014), Tegnerforbundet (2017) amongst others. She has conducted several public commissions including for the Research Council of Norway, and the Norwegian Defence Estates Agency. In 2018, Vinje published Anthology – _Anatomical Theatre, a book based on a project where she invited scholars and artists to contribute in a vast associated programme that was set in a replica of an anatomical theatre from the 1500s produced for the Norwegian Sculpture Biennale (2013).

Linda Gathu is a UK and Norway based actress,/writer/director who trained at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and is currently a student at the MA in theatre program at KHiO. Her work has been commissioned by the National Theatre of Norway and in 2018 & 2019 she was a lab fellow at Nord University’s film laboratory.

Her current project is a trilogy that will explore notions of memory, belonging and archives relating to the African diaspora in Norway. 

The short “ The Director”  (dir: Gathu & Liavaag/ prod: Barbosa Film) will be released in 2021.