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)’:
All images: ‘Skog (Forest)’, 2020. Stills from short film.
Eli Maria Lundgaard (b. 1989, Norway) holds a master in fine art from Malmö Art Academy (2018) and is currently based in Oslo, Norway. Her work has been presented at The Moscow International Biennale for Young Artists (2016 and 2018), the onboard program at The Antarctic Biennale (2017), as well as at several exhibitions and screenings in Scandinavia and other parts of Europe. In 2019 she was nominated for Future Generation Art Prize, and has through this exhibited at Pinchuk Art Centre in Kiev and in Venice.
Recent solo exhibitions include UKS in Oslo (2020), Delfi in Malmö (2020), Marabouparken Konsthall in Sundbyberg (2021) and NNKS in Svolvær (2022). Later this year, she will participate in the opening exhibition of the National Museum in Norway, amongst others.
Image 1: ‘A Home for Occupants’, 2020. HD video, 17.23 min, loop.In front: Pssst, 2020. Installation view, UKS, Oslo, 2020.
Photographed by Vegard Kleven
Image 2: ‘Barbarian’, 2019. HD video, 12.09 min, loop. Installation view, Future Generation Art Prize, Pinchuk Art Centre, Kyiv, 2018.
Photographs provided by the PinchukArtCentre @ 2019.
Photographed by Maksym Bilousov.
Image 3: ‘Disappearing Act’, 2018. 16mm film transferred to HD video, 04.32 min, loop. Installation view, Gallery KHM2, Malmö, 2018.
Photographed by Jenny Ekholm.
Image 4: ‘«I»s’, 2020. Window foil with holes (reflective/mirroring from the outside and transparent black from inside).
‘Pest’, 2020. Carved holes and charcoal.
‘Pssst’, 2020. Ceramics (250 of 1000 psc. glazed).
‘Ooooo’, 2020. Ceramics and sound.
Installation view, UKS, Oslo, 2020. Photographed by Vegard Kleven.
malatsion (b. 1974) is a visual artist living in Frankfurt (DE). She graduated in 1998 in art history, archaeology and archaeozoology at the University of Poitiers (FR) and 2003 in fine arts at the University of Strasbourg (FR). Having worked as an archaeozoologist before turning to arts studies, she was interested in environmental problems created by civilizations in ancient times.
The degradation of ecosystems and of our own bodies remains at the centre of her artistic practice in connection with life sciences, therapeutic approaches and ecology. Her work finds its expression in installations that stage sculptures, drawings, photographs and props in a fictitious narration and place which mix realism and fantasy.
More information at: www.malatsion.de
malatsion’s participation at PRAKSIS is supported by Goethe-Institut Norwegen
Image 1: ‘Genese/genesen’, 2016-2017. Treatment sheet for ID_015PL at stage 5.
Image 2: ‘Genesis of my hybridization’, 2019. Implant ID_023MR.
Image 3: ‘Healing processes. Holobionts’, 2021
Image 4: ‘Genese/genesen’, 2016-2017.
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 (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 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.
Both images photographed by Linnea Syversen
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 (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.
Marte Aas (b. 1966, NO) is a photographer and filmmaker based in Oslo. Aas´ main area of interest is the intersection between contemporary image culture, history, technology and landscape. Her work attempts to address underlying structures and gestures that form political and ideological narratives. Different subjects of interest are realised in the form of films, photographs and installations, folding them into non-linear and layered narratives.
Read MoreJonathan Armour is a trans-media artist who is fascinated by the human body, the person within and the skin which mediates between us. His practice which revolves around instinctive exploration and scientific experimentation often touches upon age, gender, sexuality, ethnicity and body adjustments. Born in Coleraine (NI), a first degree in engineering steered his early career into IT and business, but life-events provoked a Foundation Course in Art in 2012-3 which led straight to an MA in Fine Art from 2013-15, marking the birth of his creative career.
Armour often works collaboratively with his subjects to explore aspects of them which usually confront aspects of himself. Invoking a range of media across drawing and oil painting, digitisation, direct body work to time-based digital work, he brings an off-piste approach to examining the human condition. His work has been exhibited widely in the UK, Europe, Australia and USA.
Trinley Dorje is a Toronto-based mixed-media artist. Her artworks are visual, anthropological explorations of the human experience which are inspired by her previous work in anthropology and her current career in healthcare. She intends her art to encourage discussion around racial, gender, and sexual biases and provide an opportunity for reflection into the importance of humans taking responsibility for their place on the Earth. Her work has been exhibited throughout North America and Europe. She has been featured on CBC Arts: Exhibitionists television series and published in magazines, medical journals and on book covers. Her artworks are included in the permanent collections of Toronto General Hospital, The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, and The Rotunda Hospital in Dublin, Ireland.
Saleh Kashefi (born Tehran, 1999) is an Iranian filmmaker. He has made 12 short films which have been included in over 100 film festivals around the world and have won 26 awards. His first feature film, Mammad, is one of six projects selected by Cannes Film Festival's Cinefondation Residence.
Kashefi writes; “Being judged by others is a big issue in Iran and I have made many films on this topic. The human body and its significant place in society has always fascinated me—especially as I come from a country where we always hide our bodies and are ashamed of them.”
Louis Alderson-Bythell is an artist working under the name LAB. LAB engages with the relationships between human and non-human ecologies, genetics and biological technology, environmental observation through deep time, bio-politics, and the interplay between stability and plasticity in ecological systems. These areas are used as lenses to explore, interrogate and showcase the poetry and interdependence in more-than-human systems and to build critical narratives around them.
LAB works with living matter, and has previously worked with Costume, Performance Art, 3D Scanning and digital fabrication technologies, having exhibited in group shows at Kunsthal Charlottenborg – Spring Exhibition (2020) at Art Night London (2018), Rotterdam Art Week (2018) and Fashion Clash Festival (2019) with Schuit Collections and at MOMA NY for the Biodesign challenge (2017).
Adam Peacock (UK) is a post-disciplinary artist, architect, academic and consultant living in London. Adam’s experimental lens, The Validation Junky, developed on his MA in Design Interactions at the Royal College of Art (2012-14), focuses upon investigating the effects of the internet upon contemporary identity expression and self-perception within photographic communication; straddling fashion academia, experimental architectural methodology, fine art practice, consumer psychology, genetic technology, cybernetic theory, and social anthropology. The most notable project developed under his lens, The Genetics Gym, primarily developed within the 2016 Design Residency at the Fashion Space Gallery at London College of Fashion, was featured in the BBC Radio 1 Stories documentary DNA+ Beauty (2018), and was presented as the opening keynote speech at the 2018 Product Innovation Apparel conference in Milan. The project has been exhibited at the Science Gallery Melbourne and Science Gallery Dublin as part of Perfection (2018-2019). It was awarded the Robert Garland Treseder Fellowship at the University of Melbourne (2018), and published as a chapter in ‘Crafting Anatomies: Archives, Dialogues, Fabrications’ by Bloomsbury (2020).
Erika Stöckel (SE) holds an MFA from Oslo National Academy of the Arts (KHiO). Her work has been shown Norsk Billedhoggerforening, Oslo, Nordnorsk Kunstnersenter, Svolvær, Galleri MAP, Oslo, Galleri Nos, Stockholm, and Galleri Konstepidemin, Gothenburg among others. She writes about her practice:
“My thought process is rooted in the physicality of my own body - at the pool, in the mirror or in bed. In previous work swimming pool changing rooms have been a dominant inspiration. Thoughts take form in ceramic sculptures often presented together in installations. My aims are to question the mainstream notion of beauty, and to empower bodies generally considered non-normative. Through my ongoing work I am researching structural mechanisms behind the oppressed body, starting from the practice of eugenics on Sami people in the 1930’s, and facial recognition technology in use today.”
Lior Tamim is a project-based artist living in Tel Aviv-Yaffo. His works are performative actions of body, sound, and space. The works are site-specific and often examine existential states, transcend conventional limits of self-construction, and blur the distinction between art and life. His performances are often rooted in transformation. He often transforms himself into different characters, fully adopting their way of life. In recent years, he has lived as a hunter, a soldier, a nomad, and a body-builder.
Tamim has exhibited his works in The 7th Biennale for Drawing in Israel; at the Givon Art Forum in Tel Aviv; Suzanne Dellal Center for Dance and Theater in Tel Aviv; Academiae Biennial in Italy; State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, among others. In 2015, Tamim was an artist in residence at Triangle Arts Association in New York. His upcoming solo show at Givon Art Forum is an architectural intervention based on sound and technology. Tamim holds a BFA in photography from Parsons School for Design, NYC (2015) and an MFA from Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem (2019).
Bobby Yu Shuk Pui is a visual artist who was born in Hong Kong and is now living in Oslo. Her conceptual artworks, sculptures, and performances create scenarios that break audience passivity by borrowing/hiring others’ bodies, their utterance or skills. Her China-Hong Kong bi-cultural background inspires her to always see things from an alienated perspective. She often transforms roles / identities / appearance in her daily life. Her works act as simple games, ‘dragging’ complicated interpersonal relationships. Her interest in the female body and gender politics has recently led to research into scientific fortune telling using big data, and the idea that genetic engineering offers possibilities to determine the future—and the risks these subjects hold.
Bobby received a BA from Hong Kong Baptist University. She is currently studying MFA at Oslo National Academy of Fine Art (2021). She has exhibited her works at Listhus Gallery (Iceland); A Place Gallery & Studios (Florida); Youkobo Art Space Gallery (Tokyo); Swatch Art Peach Hotel (Shanghai); Parasite,100ft. Gallery, starprojects, 1a Space, Tomorrow Maybe Gallery (Hong Kong). Bobby has completed residencies at 3331 Art Chiyoda (Tokyo), 435 Art Studio (Taiwan), Listhus Space (Iceland), and Athena Standard Residency (Athens).
Siri Austeen (1961) is a Norwegian sound artist based in Oslo.
In her artistic practice, 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.
Austeen 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.
Sarah Kazmi (b.1990 Karachi) is an interdisciplinary artist, writer and researcher. Through the lens of food as an artistic medium, she uses anthropological and participatory action research (PAR) to disseminate her practice, her double life between occupations of two, bartender/artist; investigating socio-political change within personal and community-based rituals. Her practice incorporates texts, audio, live readings, installations and image-based works to explore circulation processes of food as strategy for communication and knowledge production, its significance in our everyday life, beyond a consumption culture. Her most recent and ongoing work O.K.R.A (Oslo Kitchen Radio Archive) is a long-term research-based duo project with landscape architect Miles Hamaker; using audio-visual methods to document the increasing gentrification and the inevitable encroachment on the existing communities of central east Oslo.
Kazmi has recently graduated with an MFA in Art and Public Space at Oslo National Academy of the Arts (KHIO). She has been selected as a fellow at RAW Académie Session 8 entitled Tour de Table. She has worked as a research trainee for HUMAN Documentary Film Festival 2020 and has also participated at Food Art Film Festival at the Jan Van Eyck Academie. She lives and works in Oslo, Norway
Maria Kvalheim (NO) is a scenographer and performer who works with performance, music and sound installation characterized by fragments of historical events and contemporary time. Through scenography she works as a concept developer and as performer in her own work and that of others. Through opening up and asking questions about what a set designer does she currently works with acoustic scenography producing sound that bring out the inherent acoustic and atmospheric potential of space. She is interested in the relationship between movement and space, and how sensory work can affect the movement of an audience. Maria works with Dresden-based theater network, fachbetrieb rita grechen. During 2020, she has initiated an electronic writing circuit where ownership of material is shared, and texts are “recycled” to other group members. This project started as a workshop together with fachbetrieb rita grechen’s previous work Piece of Silence.
