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The Art and Craft Lectures, hosted by the Art and Craft Department at Oslo National Academy of the Arts, is an annual lecture series devoted to art education, research, theory, and politics. The program, curated by Sara R. Yazdani and Susanne M. Winterling, nurtures an interdisciplinary exchange of practice and theory.
Crafting Knowledge and Community
The 2025/2026 program explores knowledge and its production: through ways of making, thinking, and practice. Moving away from Modern dualities towards what Rosi Braidotti defines as the posthuman condition, we are concerned with the relational, affective, and epistemic processes that define our ways of being, with the human, nonhuman, and technical mediations.
From the perspectives of art and craft—as materiality, techniques, and critical tools—we wish to collectively reflect on knowledges and knowledge processes, and in line with Braidotti, we believe that this can only be done in making—in hands-on practices of composing a “we” through new forms of interdisciplinary connections. We will open dialogues with the archivist, artist, materiality, infrastructures, exhibition making, scholarly knowledge, situated knowledges, and hi(story) making, precisely to reflect on different forms and ways of knowing, through practice.
The lecture series is part of the MFA art and theory course contextualization and artistic practice of the two programs Medium- and Material Based Art, and Art and Public Space. Taking a collaborative approach to practice and research, the lecture series seeks to generate inspiration, critical navigation, and community across the arts. It invites scholars, artists, and curators from different disciplines to give traditional keynotes, performances, and conversations that guide the semester. It is a platform for students and faculty to share and discuss practice, concerns, and inspiration, with an open door to the public.
The Art and Craft lectures take place in the main auditorium, KHiO, on Thursdays at 3pm CET. The lectures are free and open to the public and convened by Sara R. Yazdani and Susanne M Winterling.
Un/foldings in Materiality
The fall 2024/spring 2025 program un/folds connections between materials and bodies. From the perspective of art and craft, we wish to consider the fold as an artistic and academic method and tool to understand materials and their interconnections with machines, bodies, techniques, and space, as well as culture, politics, and affective relations in the world.
In The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque (1988) Gilles Deleuze uses the figure of the fold to interpret the world as a body of endless folds that weave through time and space. His conception challenges the idea of subjectivity as something that only human beings have, and moves beyond the nature and culture divide. In that conception, humans are not sovereign subjects among passive objects, but matter and humans emerge dynamically and uncontrollably between states of being in a world of endless folds, materials, and surfaces. We find this idea of the fold and weaving intriguing, especially in times of multiplying crisis.
The lecture series is part of the MFA art and theory course Contextualization and artistic practice of the two programs Medium- and Material Based Art, and Art and Public Space. Taking a collaborative approach to practice and research, the lecture series seeks to generate inspiration, critical navigation, and community across the arts. It invites scholars, artists, and curators from different disciplines to give a traditional keynotes or conversations that guide the semester, and as a platform for students and faculty to share and discuss practice, concerns, and inspiration, with an open door to the public.
The Art and Craft lectures take place in the main auditorium, KHiO, on Thursdays at 3pm CET, or on Zoom. The lectures are free and open to the public.
The spring 2024 program, curated by Sara R. Yazdani and Susanne M. Winterling, continues our commitment to art and ecology.
Taking Isabelle Stengers’ manifestation “An Ecology of Practice” as a place of departure, the series aims to construct tools for thinking. Ecology is here understood as the relations between living and non-living bodies and matter, forming a “different practical landscape.” This semester, the focus is on artistic practice to form such landscapes– inside, in-between, and in the surroundings–as a critical way to audit knowledge and new possibilities. Taking a collaborative approach to practice and research, the lecture series seeks to generate inspiration, critical navigation, and community across the arts.
The series, part of the MFA programs in the department, invites scholars, artists, and curators from different disciplines to give a public lecture. It takes the form of traditional keynotes that guide the semester as a platform for students and faculty to share and discuss practice, concerns, and inspiration, with an open door to the public.
