Noor Bhangu

Noor Bhangu is a curator and scholar, whose practice employs cross-cultural encounters to interrogate issues of diaspora and indigeneity in post- and settler-colonial contexts. She completed her BA in the History of Art and her MA in Cultural Studies: Curatorial Practices at the University of Winnipeg.

Her written work has appeared in academic and public journals, including Black Flash, gal-dem, Moveable Type: The University College London English Journal, Public Parking, Uncommon Sense, and C Magazine. Her curatorial practice includes projects: Overlapping Violent Histories: A Curatorial Investigation into Difficult Knowledge (2018), womenofcolour@soagallery (2018), Not the Camera, But the Filing Cabinet: Performative Body Archives in Contemporary Art (2018), and Digitalia (2019). In 2018, she began her PhD in Communication and Culture at Ryerson and York University in Toronto.

Lisa Andrine Bernhoft-Sjødin

Lisa Andrine Bernhoft-Sjødin is a curator, freelance writer, translator, producer, and occationally an exhibition guide and mediator.

She contributes regularly to the camera-based art magazine Objektiv Journal (OJ), her latest project; a review-series at OJ with ArtConstructs that runs through February 2020. The platform ArtConstructs launched the fall of 2018 as an IG account promoting futurity by combating white washing in the arts.

Lisa Andrine is also the programme curator for the inaugural contemporary art exhibition 2020 at the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design.

Olivia Berkowicz

Olivia Berkowicz is a curator and editor based in Stockholm. She works at the intersection of critical visuality studies, contemporary art theory and psychoanalysis. This manifests in work exploring geopolitics and human geography. Her previous studies include an MA in Curatorial Studies and a BA in History of Art, at Stockholm University and Goldsmiths College, University of London respectively. For the former, she completed a thesis titled Ecologies of Care and Intimacy – Curatorial Practices in the Capitalocene. The work sought to explore curatorial methodologies of intimacy, relatedness and non-capitalist modes of production.

Recently she worked at Sörmlands Museum where she co-curated Mending a Broken World, a retrospective exhibition on the Hungarian-Swedish artist Lenke Rothman, with contributions by contemporary artists Alina Chaiderov and Gery Georgieva. She is one of the founders of Ferrara Residency, an international residency program in Ferrara, Italy. Since 2017, artists and researchers have been invited to explore forms of togetherness while reflecting on means of precarious and affective labour under capitalist conditions.

Image 1. Sensory Futures: Consciousness razing (2018), Index - The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation, Stockholm. Photo: Emmeli Person

Image 2. Lenke Rothman & Alina Chaiderov - Mending a Broken World (2018-2019), Sörmlands Museum, Nyköping. Curated with Joanna Nordin. Photo: Valdemar Asp

Image 3. A Fluid Haze, Ferrara Residency (2018), Ferrara. Untitled degraded painting by Ruth Angel Edwards. Photo: Andrea Bighi

Image 4. Who Cares? Ferrara Residency (2017), Ferrara. Photo: Karolina Mikeskova

Anton Benois

Anton Benois (b.1979 Moscow, USSR) is a Norway-based Australian artist whose work collects found, made and commissioned objects within environments that trouble their worth. Benois' practice-based artistic research explores themes of provenance and dispossession, the ritualisation of the everyday and the universality of dissociative flows in the digital age. 

Benois graduated from the Trondheim Academy of Fine Art (NTNU) in May 2019. He has exhibited at Trondheim Kunstmuseum Gråmølna, Small Projects (Tromsø, NO), Kudos Gallery (Sydney, AU) and First Draft Gallery (Sydney, AU) with both individual and collaborative projects. His MFA graduate work will be shown as part of Statens Kunstutstilling Høstutstillingen in Kunstnernes Hus (Oslo, NO) in 2019. 

Image 1: 'Distant Relatives,' 2019, Trondheim Kunstmuseum Gråmølna (Trondheim, NO) materials: commissioned oil painting, 3D printed frame, bench, sound. Image Credit: Lili Zanetta

Image 2: ‘Come Inside Me,’ 2018, Tromsø, Norway. Site-specific installation using 57 recycled radios and fm transmitters in northern Norways oldest wooden kiosk. 

Image 3: ‘On a Clear Day you can see into Forever’ 2018, Video Still

Genevieve Bellevea

Genevieve Belleveau's relational practice informs her live performances, writing, video, photo, and new media investigations.

Her work has been featured in Frieze, Broadly, i-D, WIRED, The New Yorker, The Daily Beast, Playboy, PAPER, Bomb Magazine, Art21, Art Papers and Rhizome.org. She has shown at Moma PS1, Ekebergparken, DAM Gallery, Vox Populi, Transfer Gallery, Eyebeam, VOGT Gallery, Witte de With Contemporary, Garden LA, Murmurs, Art In General and Lilith Performance Studio, among others. She lives in Los Angeles, CA where she and her partner co-run Sacred Sadism,a conceptual BDSM tool company and social practice piece.

Image 1, Pressed Themba for Sacred Sadism, 2018.

Image 2, Seeking Arrangement live-streamed performance for "Girls Who Are Boys". 

Image 3, Elegy to the Dominator Model performance for "Soppen" festival at Ekebergparken, Oslo, NO, 2016. Curated by Tor Erik Boe and Jennie Bringaker.

Image 4, Pressed Elizabeth for solo exhibition "Circlusion" at Garden LA, 2018. Curated by Britte Geijer and Zachary Korol-Gold.

Siri Austeen

Siri Austeen is a Norwegian sound artist based in Oslo. Austeen is concerned with the relationship between sound, place and identity, working at the intersection of audio and visual art. Her interest in process-oriented art and extended vocal techniques in the early 80s became a bridge over to time-based media such as sound. Today her work focuses on the impact various listening strategies have on our reception of reality and the personal experience of an investigative and sensory self. Relations between individual, collective and ecological structures often form an underlying focus in her work. 

Sound and the act of listening relate to the passing of time, and accordingly to how time is spent. In her ongoing project, Sonic Propagation, the artist uses transducer technology to transmit sound by using various physical materials as membranes, allowing her to explore new approaches towards sound, place and reality. Austeen’s artistic practice is based on field recordings, site-specific installations, participatory projects, musical productions, performance and commissioned art projects. She is recently engaged in South North Sound Exchange, a commissioned art project at Sørumsand High School. She is part of Reality-based Audio Workshop – a collaborative project with Nordic sound artists. 

Isfrid Angard Siljehaug

Isfrid Angard Siljehaug graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in 2010 and from Mater Artistic Research at the Royal Academy in the Hauge in 2012. Through her work she researches art history looking for images that reoccur through the ages, which could offer clues to perspectives important for the future. She explores the integration of art and artistic thought in daily life — especially through historic cultural developments and often using textile and text.

Angard Siljehaug's work can be described as an interlacing of text and textile where she stitches, prints and draws images and words on textiles or draws directly on the wall. Working with textile as curtains, wall-hangings, carpets, tent and clothes, her work reside in the space between the surface of the body and the interior of our dwellings. Her practice includes performance, workshops and collaborations with various artists, architects and designers. Isfrid has exhibited her work in Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden, Germany, Austria and the Netherlands including 'Shifting Spaces' at the W139 Amsterdam (2016) and 'A Supernova' at the Hortus of VU Amsterdam (2015).

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Beatrice Alvestad Lopez

Oslo based artist, Beatrice Alvestad Lopez works across mediums including painting, installation and performance. She is co-founder of the independent press; Inner Space, which publishes books of art and poetry. The publication Colour will be part of CICA museum exhibition entitled; Colour 2019 taking place in August. She holds a BA from Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti, Milan including an exchange at the Pratt Institute, New York. Solo exhibitions include Ritual Lines at Art Licks festival, London and she has participated in numerous group exhibitions at institutions including White Space gallery, House of Foundation and SiM gallery. Her ongoing interest in nature led her to be part of the programme Arts Territory Exchange, a collaborative correspondence project based on ecology and topographies. In May 2019 Beatrice participated at the SiM residency in Iceland with her project Glitch, working environmentally along the coast of Reykjavik.

She writes texts/journals of her encounters and experiences of place that contextualise them within broader socio-political and environmental concerns. A recent example is her project on water - having participated in an artist’s residency organised by An Lanntair on a sailboat in the Hebrides, Scotland.

Ayman Alazraq

Ayman Alazraq makes films, photos, and mixed media artworks. His short film The Passport was screened at the National Museum of Cinema in Turin (Italy), Cologne International Video Art Festival (Germany), among other places. His video and photography installation You From Now On Are Not Yourself was screened in venues in Spain, Norway, Denmark, and the Gaza Strip. In 2015 Alazraq’s short film Oslo Syndrome was presented in the autumn exhibition in Oslo, Dubai International Film Festival and London Palestinian film festival. His collaborative work with Emanuel Svedin was shown at Svedin has been exhibited at Galleri Podium in Oslo and Theaterhaus Jena in Germany in 2017. Alazraq and Svedin were awarded a permanent public art installation at Høgskolen på Vestlandet, which was inaugurated in 2018.

Teju Adisa-Farrar

Teju Adisa-Farrar is a Jamaican-American writer, poet and geographer whose work centers on ecological resilience and cultural equity. She uses geography as an artistic and creative medium. Her work is interdisciplinary with a focus on connecting the dots, speculative geography, and human relationships to space, place and identity. She is interested in mapping and documenting Black (read: alternative / resilient / ecological) futures. Teju uses a transnational, uncolonial lens that is informed by culturally resonant moments. Her practice is research-based and integrative… participatory observation, conversation, listening and different ways of seeing / being. Teju’s work is multi-sensory, meaning she employs whichever senses can best negotiate and articulate what she’s trying to grasp or explore.

Teju took part in Residency 17, Climata developed with Lasse-Marc Riek and the Goethe Institut.

Cori Ready

Cori Ready (b.1980, USA) is a hospitality activist, conceptual event director, artist and designer based in Oslo. Since 2005, Cori has created and hosted events that incorporate art, design, and commerce in the United States and Europe.

As an artist working towards the concept of radical hospitality, she relies on aesthetic and critical engagement, bringing people and spaces together in the spirit of inclusion and invention, hilarity and humility. Through these events, installations, and experiences, she invites and explores generosity, culture and community.

Image 1: Cori Ready, Light Fruit Bondage at Speak Easy Studio, May 2019. An investigation into unwelcome/welcome space. Oslo, Norway.

Image 2: Cori Ready, South Lake Union Park Opening. Seattle, USA. 25K people attended this event. Ready worked together with upwards of 50 community groups, donors and civic organizations to make it happen. Photo by Tonhya Kae Photography.

Margrethe Iren Pettersen

Margrethe Iren Pettersen (NO) is a florist, has a BA from the Academy of Contemporary art in Tromsø and an MFA in Art and Public Space from Oslo National Academy of the Arts. In her practice, she often works site specifically, investigating ecosystems and their complexities. By drawing attention to the characteristics and coexisting life of plants and organisms of different places, she aims to challenge the modern perception that divides culture and nature.

Her Sami roots and the oral tradition of knowledge production in the north, are themes she has brought into her work and research recently.

Pettersen participated in Residency 17, Climata developed with Lasse-Marc Riek and the Goethe Institut.

Sarah Pettitt

Sarah Pettitt (b.1978, UK) is an artist based in London and New York. Her work interrogates painting’s history, materiality and presentation, embracing process-orientated methods to construct surfaces which seek to evoke empathy. Her research includes examining pre-modern artistic modalities, and the notion of the absent body, to explore non-visual representations of pain. Recent works attempt to fuse the environment and body as a sites of silent anguish.

She has exhibited across the UK, Europe and the USA. In 2013 she was awarded the Clare Winsten Memorial Award and in 2016 was invited to be Honorary Materials Research Associate at the Slade in conjunction with University College London on a research project The Tyranny of Surface. In 2018 she co-curated a special project with Norte Maar at the artist-led art fair SPRING / BREAK, New York. She holds an MA in Fine Art Painting from the Slade School of Art (2013) and BA in Fine Art Painting from Norwich School of Art (2000).

Martina Petrelli

Martina Petrelli is an artist, designer and curator: Italian by blood, Canadian by birth, British, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Norwegian, Palestinian, Swiss and Tunisian because of her life journey. Her higher education includes a MA degree from the Sandberg Instituut in Amsterdam, a BA from the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts of Lyon, an international Baccaleureate of philosophy, language and literature, and the participation to the study course Psychology of Language at the Universitetet i Tromsø.

She has exhibited and worked for several cultural platforms internationally and across Europe, and is now engaged at Fotogalleriet in Oslo as Project Coordinator for the upcoming anniversary exhibitions, publications and public archives. Her artistic practice approaches art and design as revelatory of reasons and of the absurd, as a study and reutilisation of images and structures that script given realities, juxtaposing ways of reading and of seeing.

Images: Ongoing Artistic Research

Julia Parks

Julia Parks received her undergraduate degree from Central Saint Martins School of Art in 2015 and through an exchange programme studied photography and printmaking at Kyoto Seika University, Japan in 2013. She has exhibited in both England and Japan including; All Work and No Play, The People's History Museum, Manchester (2016), and 5 under 30, The Daniel Blau Gallery, London (2015).

Her practice encompasses film, animation and photography, often using series of photographs and projected 16mm film. Parks explores the methodologies of 20th century filmmakers and photographers, often reenacting historical artworks in the attempt to re-imagine and experience being in the moment of their production. More recently, she has been documenting the process of a sheep farm being sold on the Solway coast of Cumbria.

www.juliaparks.co.uk

Gabrielle Paré

Gabrielle Paré is a Canadian-born artist, living and working in Oslo, Norway. She completed her BFA at the University of Alberta (Canada) in 2011, and her MFA at the Kunsthøgskolen i Oslo in 2017.

Her practice is wide-ranging: from paper-based works, to audio-visual installations, to creative writing. At the core of all works is the desire to challenge the borders of identity with the uncanny, the uncomfortable and the hybrid body. Paré uses her own body performatively as a site for the exploration of culture, filiation, and personal mythology. 

Lara Ögel

Lara Ögel (born in Izmir, 1987) is an artist based in Istanbul. In her practice she uses a variety of mediums from collage to video. Her works develop from individual and universal concerns and take form through subtle, emotional, site and context aware installations.

Recent solo shows include; İmtidad, Galata Greek School Open Library, Istanbul (2018), Come Back! All is Forgiven, Protocinema, Paris (2016), The Happy Average, Öktem&Aykut, Istanbul (2014). Selected group shows; Restless Monuments, Zilberman Gallery, Istanbul (2018), Driftwood, or how we surfaced through currents, Athens (2017), Past, in Each of its Moments be Citable, DEPO, Istanbul (2016).

Image 1: Come Back! All is Forgiven, Installation view, Protocinema, Paris, 2016
Image 2: baba!, installation view from Restless Monuments, Zilberman Gallery, Istanbul, 2018
Image 3, 4: houses were rooms, I had forgotten (variation II), Driftwood, or how we surface through currents, Athens, 2017

Miriam Döring

Miriam Döring (*1993, Germany, based in Berlin) is a multidisciplinary artist whose work explores spaces beyond and along the porous boundary of bio-politically permeated bodies, their receptivity and incorporation of external influences. With a somatic approach she is searching for possibilities of turning vulnerability and overexposure into empowerment, speculating on bodies' potential of world-sensing, -making, and being-intertwined.

Miriam Döring is studying Fine Arts / Sculpture in Class Prof. Monica Bonvicini (UdK Berlin) since 2017, following the studies of Art and Its Mediation (BA) at the University of Paderborn. Her studies are preceded by years of training in artistic and contemporary dance, which is elementary for her body thinking in practice. Her work has been exhibited in solo and group shows in Germany, among others at Museum für Fotografie Berlin (2018) as well as in several publications. In addition to her own artistic practice, she is gaining experience in curatorial practice, artistic direction and production.

Miriam Döring’s participation at PRAKSIS is supported by Goethe-Institut Norwegen

Image 1: ‘Weathering’ (ongoing), 2022. Gravure print, acrylic massaged into cardboard. 30x42cm

Image 2: ‘Dis-channelled/container’, 2021. C-print of wax-object. 42x60cm

Image 3: ‘Stimulus / TPSMS (Triggerpoint-Self-Massage-Stick)’, 2021-2022. Object: casted polyurethane rubber, referring to public architecture around Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin. RLX-exercises stills.

Image 4: ‘ASM (abdominal self massage)’, 2020. Video still 4:08min.

Annike Flo

Annike Flo works cross-disciplinary between art, scenography and costume. Her practice looks into producing work based around our relationship to other beings, giving up space, and decentering the human. Her projects are often inspired by research, materials and methods from both the humanities and life sciences and she often collaborates with researchers and practitioners from other fields such as biology and ecology.

Annike has recently exhibited at Galleri Format, Meta.Morf and Atelier Nord, and ran Norwegian BioArt Arena, a new project by Vitenparken Ås, from 2018 to 2021. As a scenographer and costume designer she has worked with Punch Drunk, Secret Cinema, Another and Love magazines, MiuMiu and more. Annike holds a MA in scenography at Norwegian Theatre Academy, and a BA in Costume for Performance at London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London.

Images 1, 2: ‘Cocreat:e:ures’, 2018. Scenographic piece, at Vitenparken Ås. Photographed by Annike Flo

Image 3: ‘s h i f t’, 2020. Detail, FAEN group exhibition at gallery Kit. Part of the Meta.Morf festival, Trondheim.

Sive Hamilton Helle

Sive Hamilton Helle (b. 1989 Oslo) is a filmmaker and visual artist based between Gothenburg and Oslo. She holds an MFA in Film from HDK-Valand and a BA in Film from London College of Communication. Hamilton Helle’s work deals with landscapes that are marked by colonialism and (hidden) industrial activity.

Teaser from her short film ‘Skog (Forest)’:

https://vimeo.com/677710474

All images: ‘Skog (Forest)’, 2020. Stills from short film.