Material Strategies Seminar in Oslo

THURSDAY FEB. 28 & FRIDAY MARCH 1 2019 9:30-17:00

A project initiated by :

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MATERIAL STRATEGIES

VEGA SCENE HAUSMANNSGATE 28 - 32 OSLO

ARTISTIC RESEARCH SEMINAR 28.02.2019 - 01.03.2019 VEGA SCENE OSLO

How can we as artists to a greater extent listen to the agency of the material and co create with it, letting go of control and authorship? How are bodies, emotions, visions and memories shaped by things and environments we interact with? How are performative and material practices articulating the embodied nature of memory in relations between bodies, voices, objects and spaces?

We will examine voice and sound as material, connected to transformative subject formations being shaped and reshaped in dialogue with the surroundings (space and objects). Is the voice, when materializing different traditions and techniques, connecting past and present, living and dead and animate and inanimate?

The seminar forms one part of the Artistic Research

How to practice materiality in relation to artistic

Project "Material Strategies" funded by the

research processes of creation? With reference to

Norwegian Program for Artistic Research, Norwegian

New Materialism’s ethical call to relate to material in

Theatre Academy/Østfold University College and

ways that demand another kind of interaction with

Concordia University in Canada.

matter, this research project will investigate the

The project is led by Professor Camilla Eeg-

consequences for performance practices. Questions

Tverbakk.

of ethics are raised through debates about

GUEST SPEAKERS

Singer and composer Niko Valkepää (NO), Dr. Rick Dolphijn from the University of Utrecht (NL), Artist and researcher Luis Sotelo from Concordia University/ Canada (Colombia/ Canada), Independent researcher Sidsel Graffer (NO), Architect Andreas Thiele (Germany), Singer and composer Øystein Elle (NO), Actor and Associate Professor in voice studies Electa Behrens (US/NO), Artist Jakob Oredsson (SE), Artist and Research fellow Ingvild Holm, Dancer, choreographer and professor Per Roar (NO).

appropriation, authorship, and power. How does a materialist view affect subject formations, our relationships to our environments, and human activity? How are performative and material practices articulating the embodied nature of memory in relations between bodies, voices, objects and spaces?

Material Strategies investigates voice and body as material in relation to spaces, architecture and objects.