MEMORYWORK







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.  

We ask questions about whose memories and which memories count, and how do we remember? Whose lives are afforded space?



MEMORYWORK 2020 - ONGOING

WORKS

LAB

FINAL EVENT:

Performative Time

Fall 2024

Project Lab #5

Reactivation

Spring 2024


Project Lab #4

Absence, a place where something happened

Fall 2023

Project Lab #3

Embodied resistance

13–15 April 2023 Feildwork
On-site Lisbon
, Portugal


Project Lab #2 

Who tells y/our story

13–15 September 2022 Feildwork
16–17 September 2022 Symposium
On-site Berlin, Germany


Project Lab #1 

Mapping the field

26–27 January 2022 Research week
Streaming on Zoom Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Norway




WORKS
Presentation

Mangfoldsstemmer i kulturlivet, OsloMet, Oslo, Norway

12 April 2023

Article

«Sign ‘O’ the Times: en dansekunstners minnearbeid fra ei skeiv tid» ,

Danseinformasjonen, Norway

16 February 2023

Exhibition

Dancing Forest
3,14, Bergen, Norway

19.11.2022-05.02.2023


Presentation

Critical Reflective Practice, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway

20 October 2022

Presentation

Embodied Sound Archive, The Listening Academy, Bergen, Norway

17-19 October 2022

Residency

Take over @ Betraktninger = Observations, Dialogues and Actions , ROM, Norway

26 September–1 October 2022

Exhibition

Betraktninger = Observations, Dialogues and Actions , ROM, Norway

8 September–9 October 2022

Exhibition

Everything must go, The Mildred Complex(ity, United States

23 July3 September 2022

Residency

Mildred's Lane, United States

July 2022

Presentation

Mining the Borders of Artistic Research, Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon, Portugal

8 June 2022 10.00

Presentation

Plattform: The Labour of Memory, Bergen Kunsthall, Norway 

4 June 2022 14.00

Exhibition

Habitat, F15, Norway

28 May–5 October 2022

Exhibition

CORPOREALITY REPAIR CONCILIATION. Investigating Ways Into a Better Coexistence, Neue Galerie Innsbruck, Austria

13 May–16 July 2022

Presentation

“Apologoscapes” of Objects, Bodies, and Memories: Materiality and Institutionality of Apology, Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen, Austria

18 January 2022 19:00  

Visiting Artist

An Archive of Action, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, United States 2021 


Research-led teaching

Flea Market ProjectSchool of the Art Institute of Chicago/Oslo National Academy of the Arts

January 2021-October 2022



ARTISTIC RESEARCH SEMINARS

Artistic Research Spring Forum

25–27.10.2023 


Artistic Research Spring Forum

14–16.3.2022




PUBLICATIONS


«Sign ‘O’ the Times: en dansekunstners minnearbeid fra ei skeiv tid» 

2023

EVERYTHING LEFT, The fleamarket project, collected and reassembeld

2022

PUBLIC MEMORY, PUBLIC ART
Reflections on Monuments and Memorial Art Today

2022



MEMORYWORK comes out of a research collaboration at Oslo National Academy of the Arts (KHIO) between the departments of Dance and Art & Craft. Merete Røstad and Per Roar initiated MEMORYWORK in collaboration with Sasa Asentic (Serbia/Germany), Manuel Pelmus (Norway/Romania), Eliot Moleba (South Africa), Solveig Styve Holte (Norway), Nayria Castillo (Venezuela/Austria), Ingri Fiksdal (Norway), Xavier Le Roy, Institute for Applied Theatre Studies in Giessen (France/Germany) and Myna Trustram (United Kingdom), Helena Elias, Faculty of Fine Arts Lisbon(Portugal). 

The project is supported by a group of experts who will thematically contribute to the critical discourse, contextualisation and dissemination. They include Suzana Milevska, Lars Ebert (H401), Boris Boden (Public Art and New Artistic Strategies, Bauhaus University, Weimar), Mary Jane Jacob (Institute for Curatorial Research and Practice, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, United States).

The artists contribute to the project with their artistic practices and network, based respectively in Austria, France, Germany, Makedonia, Netherland, Norway, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, South Africa, the United Kingdom, United States and Venezuela.


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CONTACT

Postal address:
Oslo National Academy of The Arts
MEMORYWORK
Postboks 6853, St. Olavs plass
0130 Oslo
Norway

Email: contactmemorywork@gmail.com