Art and Craft Lectures
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 stresses an interdisciplinary approach to rethinking practice and theory in new desirable ways. 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.
