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News

2024

Presentation
Plattform
Åsa Elzén, Benedicte Brun and Merete Røstad
Bergen Kunsthall, 5.12, Norway

Research
Artistic Research
Autumn Forum MEMORYWORK
Trondheim 26.10, Norway

Seminar
Artistic Research
Norwegian Artistic Research School Seminar 4
Bergen, Norway

Public art commission
Open seminar Ti skisseforslag til nytt nationalt minnested for 22. juli
National Museum, 6.5, Oslo, Norway

Research
Reactivation MEMORYWORK
Project Lab 5, 13 - 21.5, Paris, France

Public art commission
Introduction to Utøya Minnested for 22.juli
Utøya, 3 - 4 .4, Norway

Workshop
Archives as Art Practice
HDK-Valand Academy of Art and Design, Sweden
2023

Public art commission
National memorial 22.july

Regeringskvartalet Oslo, Norway


Research
Absence, a place where something happened
MEMORYWORK
Project Lab 4, 13 - 17.11, Utøya, Norway

Exhibition
Sorry, the Hardest Word
P74, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Seminar
Agenda: Magdalena Abakanowicz
Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Norway

Presentation
Using digital approaches and Canvas to enhance student learning and engagement in teaching art subjects
Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Utdanningsforum, Norway

Residency Part 2
Alfabet of Resilience
Live Studio, Bergen Kunsthall, Norway

Seminar
Relationships in Artistic Research
Norwegian Artistic Research School: Seminar 4
Bymuseum, Bergen, Norway

Research
Embodied Resistance MEMORYWORK
Project Lab 3, Lisbon, Portugal

Residency Residency Part 1
Alfabet of Resilience
Live Studio, Bergen Kunsthall, Norway

Presentation MEMORYWORK
Artisitc Research Forum,
Sentralen, Norway

2022
Presentation
Critical reflective practice – examples of a reflect-in-action trough an orchestrated approach to artistic research-based teaching 
Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Utdanningsforum, Norway

Exhibition
Dancing Forest
Parabol
3,14, Bergen, Norway

Book launch
ARCTIC SOUTH
University of Lisbon, Portugal

Presentation
The Listening Academy
Bergen, Norway

Book launch
PUBLIC MEMORY, PUBLIC ART
Reflections on Monuments and Memorial Art Today
Stockholm, Sweden

Research
Who tells y/our story MEMORYWORK
Project Lab 2,
Berlin, Germany

Exhibition
Betraktninger = Observations, Dialogues and Actions
ROM, Oslo, Norway

Exhibition
Habitat
F15, Moss, Norway

Educational
Critical Reflective Practice
NTNU, Trondheim, Norway

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

Residency
Mildred Lane
United States

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

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

PresentationThe Labour of Memory
Bergen Kunsthall, Norway

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

Research
Mapping the field
MEMORYWORK
Project Lab 1, Zoom
2022—2021
Presentation Flea Market Project
School of the Art Institute of Chicago/Oslo National Academy of the Arts

Visiting ArtistAn Archive of Action
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, United States
2020
Presentation
Sites of Reckoning Symposium
Georgia State University, Atlanta, United States  

Works

What Endurs (2023)
Participatory installation
Keywords: apology, representation, memorywork

Alfabet of Resilience (2023)
Social sculpture and archive
Keywords: social sculpture, representation, score
Weight of Whispers (2022)  
Commemorative plate
Keywords: memorywork, erasure,rePurpose
Acts of Repair (2021)  
Sculpture
12 copper needles, 3 m
Keywords: land acupuncture, urban landscape, landart

To Do List (2021)
Installation
 Keywords: research, representation,  memorywork
Entangled Life (2020)
Social sculpture and archive
Keywords: participatory monument, social sculpture, sound art, representation

Dancing forest and other stories (2020)
Sound installation, 29 min.
Keywords: sound art, participatory monument, embodied futures past and present
Hearing (2018)
Social sculpture
Keywords: participatory monument, social sculpture

/ɑːkʌɪv/ (2018)
Installation, social sculpture
Keywords: archive, installation, participatory monument, social sculpture
Chamber (2017)Sound sculpture
Materials: concrete, speakers Keywords: participatory monument, social sculpture, sound art, representation, memory site
Positions of Protest (2016)
Performative sculpture
Keywords: participatory monument, social sculpture, representation
Folkets Hus (2015)
(People House) 
Social sculpture
Keywords: participatory monument, social sculpture, representation, memory site, memorywork
Exercises in Consciousness (2014)
Social sculpture
Keywords: participatory monument, social sculpture, representation, memorywork

Vocabulary of Thought (2014)
Installation
Material: 26 collages, text 
Keywords: installation, sculpture, memorywork
Zeitreise (2013)
Light sculpture and participatory work
Material: projection, collage
Keywords: participatory monument, social sculpture
Visions of the Future (2010)
Participatory installation
Material: mixed media, stamp, UV flashlightKeywords: participatory monument, social sculpture
Arctic Artist Survival Kit (AASK) (2009)
InstallationMaterial: mixed media
Keywords: collective memory, archive, representation, ecology, collector

18 Ice Charts / 22 days (2009)
Material: Embroidery, cotton on rubber
Keywords: collective memory, archive, ecology, embroidery
The Livingroom (2008)
Light sculpture, social sculpture
Materials: textile and metal
Keywords: participatory monument, social sculpture, sound art, representation, memory site
Presence of Absence (2007)
Sculpture, mixed media
Materials: surveillance camera, projector, metal basin, water Keywords: participatory monument, social sculpture

Itinerant memorial to the spoken wish (2007)
Performative sculpture
Materials: concrete, castor wheels
Keywords: participatory monument, social sculpture

Publications

2024
Navigating Trauma-Informed Memorywork in Artistic Research Practices Keywords: artistic research, ethics, memory work

Relational Acts – Listening as Art practice Keywords: public art, art practice, memory, relational acts

2023
ACT III
Keywords: third cycle education, supervision, art education

2022
PUBLIC MEMORY, PUBLIC ART
Reflections on Monuments and Memorial Art Today Keywords: participatory monument, social sculpture, listening

ARCTIC SOUTH
Keywords: mining, border, care, artistic research
2020
Embodied sound Archive Keywords: participatory monument, social sculpture, listening
2018
The Participatory Monument – Remembrance and Forgetting as Art Practice in Public Sphere Keywords: participatory monument, social sculpture, collective memory
2014
Forget Me Not – Berlin and the Battle of Memory Keywords: participatory monument, collective memory, tanturism