Visning, Forelesning
Listen_in
First year MFA students and professors at Art & Public Space are inviting you to Listen_in a platform to connect those of you who are interested to hear what our students are reflecting upon, thinking about, and working on.
Rather than being a grandiose public event – this event aims to create a modest moment. We invite you to share with us as much time as you have. The floor will be open for conversations and we would be more than happy for you to come and discuss our work with us!
Program
4 June, 2018
09.00 – 09.15
Welcome by Apolonija Šušteršič, professor, Head of Program Art & Public Space
09.20 – 10.20
Henriette Eik, Playing with the city
Location: Studio MAPS
The city is developing like a game. The players are fighting for power. Come and watch this game being played out!
10.30–11.30
Maina Camille G. Joner, Constructing fragments
Location: Studio MAPS
Maina Joner is observing Oslo through construction sites and how urban development is affecting the changing landscape of the city. By looking at her own artistic practice as a construction site, she is building and deconstructing ideas. Hence she is proposing a sarcastic vision of the future and creating installations in public spaces. During the Listen_in she will present her work in process: texts, collages, drawings and stories.
11.40–12.40
Shahrzad Malakian, Embodied Narratives: Visual life of unspeakable words
Location: Studio MAPS
Shahrzad Malakian's works aim to give an aesthetic voice to the unspeakable and translate it to a collective physical/visual experience. Through a dialogue between movement, space/installation and the human experience, she works on representing the parts of memory that the narrator is not able to express in words, and instead communicates through physical expressions/gestures. During the Listen_in, she will transform the studio into a vibrant performance stage where the audience will be the participators.
12.40–13.40 Lunch Break
13.40–14.40
Sarah Kazmi, Why // we eat what we eat // and what it means when we do
Location: Project space, Art & Craft
Kazmi’s research is dealing with the migration/movement of foodstuffs; observing ingredient's candid representations of the banalities of everyday life, highlighting some of the following questions: How world food habits are changing and how the causes of such change work? How the food systems of West and Asia are interpenetrating? The search of these questions has lead her in building archival material of receipts, food boxes, (import ones), documentation of people's kitchen, recipes, ingredients and recordings of everyday conversations. During the Listen_in, Sarah will open her studio to the audience and have conversations around her research (drawings and sound pieces) and eating practices.
14.50–15.50
Lucia Fiorani - An attempt to build a paradise
Location: Kuba Parken
Lucia will host a quick workshop and a round table. Sitting on a carpet in the public garden, we will together enquire into the condition of being out of place. This occasion will be used as a further research step in the project, whose main focus is on invasive plants. Those plants are used as an artistic medium to challenge what is considered native, autochthonous and what is considered migrant and foreigner. Always keeping in mind that somewhere there must be a paradise of infinite grass for all the solitary weeds.
Very welcome!