News
2025
Interview
Come and make a change!
Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Norway
Research/ Exhibition
Artistic Research Week
Oslo National Academy of the Arts, 21 - 23.1.Norway
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
Unfording Silence (2025)
Sculpture
Keywords: dissolves time, presence, memorywork
Loss is Not an End (2024)
Sculptural triptych
Keywords: impermanence, balance, memorywork
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, repair
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
Research
2020—2026
MEMORYWORK
Research cluster
2022—ongoing
ARCTIC SOUTH
Research cluster
2020—ongoing
Embodied sound Archive
Research project
2019—2020
PILOT: PREPARING Performative Time – a choreographic enquiry into the politics of remembrance and representation
Research project
2014—2019
The Participatory Monument – Remembrance and Forgetting as Art Practice in Public Sphere
Research project
2015—2016
A possibility study
Research project
2009—2010
Visions of the Future – Collective Memory in Arctic Science, POLART
Research project
2008—ongoing
The Collective Memory Collector
Research project
2006—2008
On the trace of Memory
Research project
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