Inspection 20 - 24 April
Merete Jonvik
Carl-Oscar Sjögren
Lisa Torell
Marie Storli
Ingrid Halland
Anna Carin Hedberg and Ebba Moi
Simon Daniel Tegnander Wenzel
Merete Hermansen Jonvik
Merete Jonvik lives and works in Stavanger, as an associate professor of sociology at the Department of Media and Social Sciences at the University of Stavanger. She teaches topics such as social inequality and material culture. Her research areas are mainly within the sociology of art and culture.
Jonvik, together with Eivind Røssaak, Hanne Hammer Stien and Arnhild Sunnanå, has published the book Kunst som deling, delingens kunst (2020, Fagbokforlaget). The book deals with the contemporary art field in Norway after 2010. In 2021, Jonvik, together with artist Hans Edward Hammonds, published Samarbeid mellom små og store vesen (Collaboration between small and large beings ), which is based on a participatory art and research project in which Jonvik and Hammonds explore what happens when children and adults collaborate to create a work of art, as well as the report Infrastrukturelle undersøkingar. Ein rapport om Atelier Kunstnerforbundet, which was an external evaluation of the studio and development programme Atelier Kunstnerforbundet. Jonvik is a regular contributor to Contemporary Art Stavanger (CAS).
Carl-Oscar Sjögren
Carl-Oscar Sjögren is an artist who often works with questions about man's relationship to raw materials.
Carl Oscar is one of the initiators and has worked with the artist-run plastic Ställbergs Gruva for ten years, a place that carries out artistic, cultural and social activities whose starting point is nine hectares of land and 4,000 square meters of buildings in Ställberg's disused iron ore mine in Ljusnarsberg municipality in Bergslagen.
The group often works on the basis of common issues and methods, which take aim at the environment and its economic, human and ecological conditions.
A key idea at Ställberg's mine is that people with different backgrounds, professions and ages are given the opportunity to think, act and research together. An exploration of known and unknown parts of the chase and the world. Ställbergs Gruva is run by the association The non-existent Center.
Lisa Torell
Lisa Torell is an artist. In her work, she investigates the public sphere, rights and regulations related to democracy and the environment through performative and site-specific methods. She frequently participates in solo/group exhibitions and is also experienced in developing, organizing, leading and collaborating in various interdisciplinary collaboration models in teaching, exhibitions, urban projects and research.
( www.lisatorell.com ) ( https://en.uit.no/ansatte/lisa.torell )
Marie Storli
Marie Storli holds a degree in economics from the University of Oslo. Throughout her studies and work, she has focused on sustainability by understanding and challenging the relationship between people, economy and nature. On a daily basis, she works as a systems economist at Æra Strategic Innovation, where she works with innovation based on collaboration and system change. Marie has previously been the leader of Rethinking Economics Norway, an organization for students and economists who want to challenge and enrich today's economics profession by drawing on the diversity that exists in economic thinking. She is currently working on a book about why we need a diversity of economic ideas to navigate the transition to a more sustainable economy.
Ingrid Halland
Ingrid Halland (b. 1988) is an art and architecture historian and art critic. She is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Bergen and Associate Professor II at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design (AHO) where she teaches in the PhD program.
Halland leads the research project "How Norway Made the World Whiter", which is funded by the Research Council of Norway (Researcher Project for Renewal, 2023 - 2028). She is also sub-project manager of the research project "The Materiality of White", which is led by Associate Professor Marte Johnslien at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts, funded by the Program for Artistic Research (DIKU, 2022 - 2025).
Anna Carin Hedberg and Ebba Moi
Ebba Moi is an artist in the collective Tenthaus - a screening space that involves young participatory art projects, and is program manager for the Master's program for Art and Public Space at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts.
In addition to her own art projects, Anna Carin Hedberg also works on a practice-based research project at the National Museum in Oslo.
Together, Hedberg and Moi are an established artist duo that explores cultural changes in society and structures that thematize various change processes. A majority of their projects have been carried out in public environments where involvement and participants are emphasized as a starting point for both process and artwork.
The duo has exhibited at Trafo Kunsthall, Vigelandsmuseet, Trøndelag Center for Contemporary Art, Kristiansand Kunsthall, Grimstad Short Film Festival, Kulturhuset in Stockholm and Kunstnernes Hus.
www.hedbergmoi.net
Simon Daniel Tegnander Wenzel
(b.1988, Hamburg) works interdisciplinary with performance, video, sound and installation. In his works he examines how technological development, market forces, science and spiritual impulses influence human perception of reality and views on nature, norms, identity and collectivity.
He enters into various characters and roles and deconstructs the familiar and familiar as a starting point with the desire to challenge personal, environmental and normative structures that exist in our Western and urban society.
With a keen interest in the tacit knowledge found in direct contact with materials, Wenzel wants to shed light on how knowledge and tradition can be embodied and transformed, especially in relation to folk medicine, useful plants and ancient crafts.
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