MERETE RØSTAD STUDIO
News
2024
Research
Reactivation
MEMORYWORK
Project Lab 5
2023
Research
Absence, a place where something happened MEMORYWORK
Project Lab 4
2023
Exhibition
Sorry, the Hardest Word P74 Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2023
Research
Embodied Resistance MEMORYWORK
Project Lab 3, Lisbon, Portugal
2023
Residency
Alfabet of Resilience
Live Studio, Bergen Kunsthall, Norway
2023
Presentation
MEMORYWORKArtisitc Research Forum, Sentralen, Norway
2023
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
2022—23
Exhibition
Dancing Forest
Parabol
3,14, Bergen, Norway
2022
Book launch
ARCTIC SOUTH University of Lisbon, Portugal
2022
Presentation
The Listening Academy
Bergen, Norway
2022
Book launch
PUBLIC MEMORY, PUBLIC ART
Reflections on Monuments and Memorial Art Today
Stockholm, Sweden
2022
Research
Who tells y/our story
MEMORYWORK
Project Lab 2, Berlin, Germany
2022
Exhibition
Betraktninger = Observations, Dialogues and Actions
ROM, Oslo, Norway
2022
Exhibition
Habitat
F15, Moss, Norway
2022
Educational
Critical Reflective Practice NTNU, Trondheim, Norway
2022
Exhibition
Everything must go
The Mildred Complex(ity),
United States
2022
Residency
Mildred Lane
United States
2022
Presentation
Mining the Borders of Artistic Research Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon, Portugal
2022
Exhibition
CORPOREALITY
REPAIR CONCILIATION
Investigating Ways Into a Better Coexistence
Neue Galerie, Innsbruck, Austria
2022
Presentation
The Labour of MemoryBergen Kunsthall, Norway
2022
Presentation
“Apologoscapes” of Objects, Bodies, and Memories: Materiality and Institutionality of Apology
Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen, Austria
2022
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
2021
Visiting Artist
An 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
Alfabet of Resilience Social sculpture and archive
Keywords: social sculpture, representation, score
Weight of Whispers Commemorative plate
Keywords: memorywork, erasure, rePurpose
Acts of Repair
Sculpture 12 copper needles, 3 m
Keywords: land acupuncture, urban landscape, landart
To Do List Installation
Keywords: sculpture, representation, memorywork
Entangled Life Social sculpture and archive
Keywords: participatory monument, social sculpture, sound art, representation
Dancing forest and other stories Sound installation, 29 min.
Keywords: sound art, participatory monument, embodied futures past and present
Hearing Social sculpture
Keywords: participatory monument, social sculpture
/ɑːkʌɪv/ Installation, social sculpture
Keywords: archive, installation, participatory monument, social sculpture
Chamber Sound sculpture
Materials: concrete, speakers Keywords: participatory monument, social sculpture, sound art, representation, memory site
Nine positions of Protest Performative sculpture Keywords: participatory monument, social sculpture, representation
Folkets Hus
(People House)
Social sculpture
Keywords: participatory monument, social sculpture, representation, memory site, memorywork
Exercises in Consciousness Social sculpture
Keywords: participatory monument, social sculpture, representation, memorywork
Vocabulary of Thought Installation
Material: 26 collages, text
Keywords: installation, sculpture, memorywork
Zeitreise Light sculpture and participatory work
Material: projection, collage
Keywords: participatory monument, social sculpture
Visions of the Future Participatory installation
Material: mixed media, stamp, UV flashlight Keywords: participatory monument, social sculpture
Arctic Artist Survival Kit (AASK)
InstallationMaterial: mixed media
Keywords: collective memory, archive, representation, ecology, collector
18 Ice Charts / 22 days
Material: Embroidery, cotton on rubber
Keywords: collective memory, archive, ecology, embroidery
The Livingroom Light sculpture, social sculpture
Materials: textile and metal
Keywords: participatory monument, social sculpture, sound art, representation, memory site
Presence of Absence Sculpture, mixed media
Materials: surveillance camera, projector, metal basin, water Keywords: participatory monument, social sculpture
Itinerant memorial to the spoken wish Performative sculpture
Materials: concrete, castor wheels
Keywords: participatory monument, social sculpture
Research
2020—ongoing
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
2023
ACT III Keywords: third cycle education, supervision, art education
2023
Listening is its own language Keywords: listening
2022
PUBLIC MEMORY, PUBLIC ART
Reflections on Monuments and Memorial Art Today Keywords: participatory monument, social sculpture, listening
2022
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