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
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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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.
Supported by
CONTACT
Postal address:
Oslo National Academy of The Arts
MEMORYWORK
Postboks 6853, St. Olavs plass
0130 Oslo
Norway
Email: contactmemorywork@gmail.com
Oslo National Academy of The Arts
MEMORYWORK
Postboks 6853, St. Olavs plass
0130 Oslo
Norway
Email: contactmemorywork@gmail.com
WORKS
LAB
FINAL EVENT:
Performative Time
Fall 2024Project Lab #5
Reactivation
Spring 2024Project Lab #4
Absence, a place where something happened
13 - 17 November 2023On-site Utøya, Norway
Project Lab #3
Embodied resistance
13–15 April 2023 FeildworkOn-site Lisbon, Portugal
Project Lab #2
Who tells y/our story
13–15 September 2022 Feildwork16–17 September 2022 Symposium
On-site Berlin, Germany
Project Lab #1
Mapping the field
26–27 January 2022 Research weekStreaming on Zoom Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Norway
WORKS
Exhibition
Sorry, the Hardest Word
7-30 November 2023P74 Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Residency Part 2
Alfabet of Resilience
9 - 17 September 2023Live Studio, Bergen Kunsthall, Norway
Article
PUBLIC MEMORY, PUBLIC ART
Reflections on Monuments and Memorial Art Today
Keywords: participatory monument, social sculpture, listeningPresentation
Mangfoldsstemmer i kulturlivet,
OsloMet, Oslo, Norway12 April 2023
Article
«Sign ‘O’ the Times: en dansekunstners minnearbeid fra ei skeiv tid» ,
Danseinformasjonen, Norway
16 February 2023Exhibition
Dancing Forest
3,14, Bergen, Norway
19.11.2022-05.02.2023Presentation
Critical Reflective Practice, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway
20 October 2022Presentation
Embodied Sound Archive, The Listening Academy, Bergen, Norway
17-19 October 2022Residency
Take over @ Betraktninger = Observations, Dialogues and Actions , ROM, Norway
26 September–1 October 2022Exhibition
Betraktninger = Observations, Dialogues and Actions , ROM, Norway
8 September–9 October 2022Exhibition
Everything must go, The Mildred Complex(ity, United States
23 July–3 September 2022Residency
Mildred's Lane, United States
July 2022Presentation
Mining the Borders of Artistic Research, Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon, Portugal
8 June 2022 10.00Presentation
Plattform: The Labour of Memory, Bergen Kunsthall, Norway
4 June 2022 14.00Exhibition
Habitat, F15, Norway
28 May–5 October 2022Exhibition
CORPOREALITY REPAIR CONCILIATION. Investigating Ways Into a Better Coexistence, Neue Galerie Innsbruck, Austria
13 May–16 July 2022Presentation
“Apologoscapes” of Objects, Bodies, and Memories: Materiality and Institutionality of Apology, Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen, Austria
18 January 2022 19:00Visiting Artist
An Archive of Action, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, United States 2021
Research-led teaching
Flea Market Project, School of the Art Institute of Chicago/Oslo National Academy of the Arts
January 2021-October 2022ARTISTIC RESEARCH SEMINARS
Artistic Research Spring Forum
25–27.10.2023 Artistic Research Spring Forum
14–16.3.2022 PUBLICATIONS