Olha Marusyn

Olha Marusyn is an artist and researcher based in Lviv, Ukraine. Currently she works with choreography, text, performance and filmmaking. Her main interests lay in interaction environments modeling, dance as aesthetics of change, body as a landscape, and also language, gravity and questions of verticality.

Olha is a cofounder and active resident of soma.majsternia – a self-organised community and independent DIY-space for body and music in Lviv, Ukraine.

Images 1, 2: Performative work
Image 3: Film still short film

Lexie Owen

Lexie Owen (b 1982, Canada) is an Oslo-based interdisciplinary artist whose practice explores notions of the collective, structures of support and the organisational potential of being with. Using artistic, curatorial and textual methods, her projects seek to create unexpected space for intimacies, investigate the material conditions that surround collective acts, and find unconventional expressions of agency within the gestures and social forms that make up everyday life.

Owen is currently based in Oslo and holds a MFA in Art and Public Space from Oslo National Academy of the Arts.

Image 1: Installation view of Dissident Publics (2023) at ROM, photo Bui Quy Son

Image 2: Installation view of Dissident Publics (2023) at ROM, photo Bui Quy Son

Image 3: In process image of Pillowfort (2024) photo Lexie Owen

Image 4: Installation view of The Mall Users Research Association (2020-2022), NITJA, photo Lexie Owen

Rebekka Sæter

Rebekka Sæter is a movement-based artist and environmental educator from Oslo, Norway. She graduated with an MA in Transcultural European Outdoor Studies in 2014. She has studied Choreography at Dartington College of Arts and Inter-University Centre for Dance Berlin (HZT) and Contemporary Performance Practice at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. She is the Artistic Director of the interdisciplinary art project ghosting Glacier and has worked as a guide and environmental educator across Scandinavia. 

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Both images photographed by Linnea Syversen

Pia Aimée Tordly

Pia Aimée Tordly (NO) is an interdisciplinary social scientist, writer and activist currently undertaking an MA in Health and Social Care at University of Southeastern Norway (USN). Drawing on her own lived experiences, Pia uses fiction and non-fiction to share research into environmental disability.

Ylva Westerlund

Ylva Westerlund (b. 1975, Husum) is an artist working with speculative thinking of the future connected to first-hand experience of field excursions in nature and society. Westerlund holds a Master of Fine Arts from Malmö Art Academy (1998-2003).

Her work has been shown at venues like the 9th Nordic Biennial of Contemporary Art in Moss, Moscow Museum of Modern Art in Moscow, The Living Art Museum in Reykjavik, The Latvian Center of Contemporary Art in Riga, The Museum of Sketches in Lund, The Center Red in Moscow, Tensta Konsthall in Stockholm and Centro Cultural Montehermoso Vitoria-Gasteiz. Westerlund was a resident of the IASPIS programme in Stockholm (2007-2008) and at the Residency programme Kunstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin (2011-2012)

Westerlund’s participation in residency 21, Nature Scribbles and Flesh Reads was supported by Konstnärsnämnden.

Image 1: ‘In the childhood of pulp’, 2021, wash drawing print on fabric, hanging on a clothes line.

Image 2: ‘My mother was a fish/ Re plant’, 2021, charcoal on board.

Image 3: ‘Memorandum from an ongoing spillage’, 2021. Graphite drawing on paper.

Image 4: ‘Sulfate 3000’, graphic novel.