https://incharacter.info IC [ Going to an exhibition ] Wed, 06 Oct 2021 08:22:38 +0000 https://incharacter.info en https://incharacter.info/Home Wed, 06 Oct 2021 08:22:38 +0000 IC [ Going to an exhibition ] https://incharacter.info/Home <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2fa58fd4c803cd2cda3e07685a94b3316ede6f6d9483ec5cd4b6655120865f23/IC1.png" data-mid="124919368" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2fa58fd4c803cd2cda3e07685a94b3316ede6f6d9483ec5cd4b6655120865f23/IC1.png" /> <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ffe454d2600ab95c1025541f049c794a980f7ef10b942ea2a70b895292d98808/WS-orange.png" data-mid="126314745" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ffe454d2600ab95c1025541f049c794a980f7ef10b942ea2a70b895292d98808/WS-orange.png" /> <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c37b9d355cac2569e9b2444c1e94c56682bfba7860a86d77863fd52f3f4c9783/GM-purple.png" data-mid="126314761" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c37b9d355cac2569e9b2444c1e94c56682bfba7860a86d77863fd52f3f4c9783/GM-purple.png" /> <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fb5a693f8d4e33ea4492cc89bf8a59b54a5d0c66cd7375d67186295aa872adfd/PE-yellow.png" data-mid="126315171" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fb5a693f8d4e33ea4492cc89bf8a59b54a5d0c66cd7375d67186295aa872adfd/PE-yellow.png" /> https://incharacter.info/Ina-Hagen Tue, 05 Oct 2021 15:37:47 +0000 IC [ Going to an exhibition ] https://incharacter.info/Ina-Hagen <img width="1440" height="1080" width_o="1440" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4ba598152a524b9f80730262bd54e87e3de47282e3a34cd996fc4da2d9a74c00/333.png" data-mid="125208348" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4ba598152a524b9f80730262bd54e87e3de47282e3a34cd996fc4da2d9a74c00/333.png" /> ︎︎︎ Oslo Language and Narrativity03&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;October 2020 ︎ Location: PRAKSIS office and UKS Gallery Artist: Ina Hagen ︎ Language: Norwegian&nbsp; Notes on the workshop:&nbsp;For the first part of the workshop we looked at how art galleries in Oslo use text and what they are actually saying. Does the text feel inclusive or excluding to us? Who is it meant for? Ina introduced us to the work of artist Andrea Fraser who works a lot with text and the performance of text. Fraser works within the tradition of "institutional critique", which in the 1990's and 2000's was often about turning upside down what you look at when you go to a museum. With that in mind we visited UKS (The Young Artist’s Society) to explore its gallery for the first time. PRAKSIS Teen Advisory Board member Zeinab tells about her experience of Ina Hagen’s workshop: "We met in a chat group and went to an opening of an exhibition. Each member of PTAB should be a role / person in this opening. Some were the artist, others were the artist's mother, curator and so on. It was very exciting to see how different the roles are based on who they are. A curator would have looked for a good exhibition, the mother will probably be very proud of the artist. A man in his 40s would have interpreted art differently than a 16-year-old girl would have done. It is very interesting and educational to be able to put yourself in other people's roles. You can become better at interpreting and knowing more about both the recipient and the artist. Being in character you can learn more about how to convey what you want to say in the art scene” <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/652a4c51f45dae1315c53f48b1b7f9b0da11b46684dab2c4a10af08c0789362d/IMG_8027.jpg" data-mid="120768787" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/652a4c51f45dae1315c53f48b1b7f9b0da11b46684dab2c4a10af08c0789362d/IMG_8027.jpg" /> <img width="1440" height="1440" width_o="1440" height_o="1440" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c9d6ed918fd238324d9342930f1ebe1c25edd6656308c050b70b3897ab324bd6/96721652-B740-40CA-8A06-1556684358BD.JPG" data-mid="120768796" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c9d6ed918fd238324d9342930f1ebe1c25edd6656308c050b70b3897ab324bd6/96721652-B740-40CA-8A06-1556684358BD.JPG" /> <img width="1050" height="548" width_o="1050" height_o="548" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/952e0b76d44f27e37c352bd7015dcf2c91dcbad3172c7cd3c5b02c023134b349/artforum-kruger-cover-e1510194945414.jpg" data-mid="120768792" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/952e0b76d44f27e37c352bd7015dcf2c91dcbad3172c7cd3c5b02c023134b349/artforum-kruger-cover-e1510194945414.jpg" /> <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d163cb67883b4e64a05451131f7709228d4d6b152afe44b9784bb01435db706e/IMG_8032.jpg" data-mid="120768791" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d163cb67883b4e64a05451131f7709228d4d6b152afe44b9784bb01435db706e/IMG_8032.jpg" /> ︎︎︎About the artist Ina Hagen (NO) is an artist and writer based in Oslo who works across performance and communal making practices. Alongside her studio practice, Hagen is a board member of the young artist’s membership organisation, union, and contemporary art institution UKS (Young Artist’s Society) and of Kunstnerboligforeningen (the Artist Housing Association) in Norway. In constructing performative situations and platforms, Hagen merges situated histories, collaborative and particpatory acts in situations of collective, critical reflection. She is co-founder with Daisuke Kosugi of the discursive platform and exhibition venue Louise Dany, that ran in their flat and adjacent store-front in Oslo between 2016 and 2020.www.inahagen.is https://incharacter.info/Klara-Ukte-Acts Tue, 05 Oct 2021 15:37:51 +0000 IC [ Going to an exhibition ] https://incharacter.info/Klara-Ukte-Acts <img width="1440" height="1080" width_o="1440" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/611b929a2e25fe98be20813cc8f8a12f0b89ee631d39ff65dea927e2e2c75ac0/111.png" data-mid="125171571" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/611b929a2e25fe98be20813cc8f8a12f0b89ee631d39ff65dea927e2e2c75ac0/111.png" /> ︎︎︎ Stockholm Going to an exhibition: And moving weird26&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;October 2020 ︎ Location: Moderna Museet Artist: Klara Utke Acts︎ Photo:&nbsp;Lou Mouw Plot: This is a room just like any other. It is choreographed by outspoken and unspoken rules, telling us how to move, or maybe how not to move. Don’t touch? Lean forward? Find the masterpiece? Take a photo? Task: Walk around and observe repetitive movements and patterns of behaviors in the room. Gather, reconvene and enact, then discuss. Try the different movement that would normally just pass as, yes, normal. What happens if we do them together as a group? You know that move when someone leans forward, neck inching close close to the painting, hands clutched together behind their back? We named it “The Looker”.Another move is the one where someone walks very quickly into a room, turns their head swiftly from side to side, then quickly walks on. This we named “The Scanner”. Together with artist and choreographer Klara Utke Atcs we visit the collection of Sweden’s biggest museum, Moderna Museet. There we take our time to observe observers, look at looking, but most of all, move in their movements. Circling in on returning patterns and behaviours, we discuss what makes these movements? Anatomy or architecture? Which came first, the spaces that makes us move in one way, or the movements that make the spaces ?&nbsp; What happens if we amplify these gestures as a collective?&nbsp; If what is "real" is something we kind of decide together - a social agreement that: this way to act is normal. Then can we also decide to dis-agree? Make a new rule on what is socially normal? If there is a group of us, maybe it's easier?&nbsp; <img width="5472" height="3648" width_o="5472" height_o="3648" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4c18d8538a836fb41ebc27709c6b43b535aae176c9231b5973e08ff1aa25b601/IMG_1587.JPG" data-mid="120768855" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4c18d8538a836fb41ebc27709c6b43b535aae176c9231b5973e08ff1aa25b601/IMG_1587.JPG" /> <img width="3648" height="5472" width_o="3648" height_o="5472" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/26679a25fc20012c9244a9a52031db62b2b426a8cc6431337c1edf9213277510/IMG_1585.JPG" data-mid="120768852" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/26679a25fc20012c9244a9a52031db62b2b426a8cc6431337c1edf9213277510/IMG_1585.JPG" /> <img width="5472" height="3648" width_o="5472" height_o="3648" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7eb5cbe1c50774d72ca2905dab3ad764940d92c189051f8cf52b9c25a3fff476/IMG_1596.JPG" data-mid="120768856" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7eb5cbe1c50774d72ca2905dab3ad764940d92c189051f8cf52b9c25a3fff476/IMG_1596.JPG" /> <img width="5472" height="3648" width_o="5472" height_o="3648" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e4c8987c15989fc6101d08d6e1ff9eab376c05ee695b69db462b54031ff0f8c6/IMG_1617.JPG" data-mid="120768860" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e4c8987c15989fc6101d08d6e1ff9eab376c05ee695b69db462b54031ff0f8c6/IMG_1617.JPG" /> ︎︎︎About the artist Klara Utke Acts (DK) is an artist working with dance and choreography; they work with poetics and body politics in the borderlands of performance, dramaturgy, curation, sound, film, and language. Their work is occupied with counter-hegemonic strategies from queer queries and crip currencies. Utke Acs is active in the scenes of Copenhagen and Stockholm and holds a BA in Dance Performance from DOCH, Stockholm University of the Arts. They are a part of the studio-cooperative höjden studios in Östberga, queer art-club collective Fake Daughter and activist group Queers Against Fascism. www.insisterspace.se/klara-utke-acs https://incharacter.info/Ina-Hagen-1 Tue, 05 Oct 2021 15:37:46 +0000 IC [ Going to an exhibition ] https://incharacter.info/Ina-Hagen-1 <img width="1440" height="1080" width_o="1440" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/28fbc7d9e8021d7528979cae0552b39ae7094f6d5ea9cb76ce6f9742ddbc1431/3.png" data-mid="125210232" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/28fbc7d9e8021d7528979cae0552b39ae7094f6d5ea9cb76ce6f9742ddbc1431/3.png" /> ︎︎︎ Stockholm Going to an exhibition: And saying the wrong things28&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;October 2020 ︎ Location: Hudiksvallsgatan, Galleri Nordenhake Artist: Ina Hagen Situation: #gallerythursdays Plot: It’s Thursday night and the art crowd of Stockholm are out on their weekly gallery rounds. This week, the real attraction is Runo Lagomasino’s “I Am Also Smoke” at Galerie Nordenhake, and everyone has found their way there. Inside of the crowded gallery, the attendees move in and out of different conversations: some talk about The Works in the exhibition, while others talk about That Thing in the News. People are expressing that they are happy to see each other – even when that phrase is all that is exchanged between them. The Gallerist and a Close Friend of The Exhibiting Artist speak with a Representative of the Presstowards the back of the room. A Group of Art Students are dissecting the exhibition amongst themselves while drawing reference to their own ongoing art-projects in school. The Usual Suspects of establishing artists, who have all come straight from the studio or various jobs, find each other in the crowd, beer in hand, and start chatting about how much they feel out of touch with their work or with art in general, while laughing about something new in their Personal Lives. As every Thursday, the conversation flows.Online Gamehost: Ina Hagen and Jasmine HinksIRL Narrator: Emmeli Person With this workshop, the plot thickens. Meeting up at Stockholms “Gallery street” Huddiksvallsgatan, Norwegian artist Ina Hagen guides the participants into a LAOG (Live Action Online Game) set in this very place.&nbsp; <img width="5472" height="3648" width_o="5472" height_o="3648" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f5fc08567fd75bb98f2d4a1981b4c4e08716d095482ae42920fddddef911ab5d/IMG_1663.JPG" data-mid="120768770" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f5fc08567fd75bb98f2d4a1981b4c4e08716d095482ae42920fddddef911ab5d/IMG_1663.JPG" /> The gallery floor is empty but as we write, the space if filled with characters and statements. Using a closed chatroom to write and respond to a plot put forward to ask: does it really matter what you are called? Is a name that important?&nbsp; Or your title?&nbsp; Using the actual phenomena of “Gallery Thursdays”, the day when the Stockholm galleries synchronize their openings to all occur in a day, pulling an artcrowd into its veins. We embody the characters of the artworld with our keyboard fingers. Filling their tongues with words and responding to the story that plays out between 0s and 1s. <img width="5472" height="3648" width_o="5472" height_o="3648" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/01efce2b744af522e7e028b1afc7ef846d0ccb8afd6d83353590b6ee30a15126/IMG_1754.JPG" data-mid="120768772" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/01efce2b744af522e7e028b1afc7ef846d0ccb8afd6d83353590b6ee30a15126/IMG_1754.JPG" /> <img width="5472" height="3648" width_o="5472" height_o="3648" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/734a8440850d33e8dec82dedb07d2abd84ae5647fadd8e5d9f4601273f3015cd/IMG_1712.JPG" data-mid="120768773" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/734a8440850d33e8dec82dedb07d2abd84ae5647fadd8e5d9f4601273f3015cd/IMG_1712.JPG" /> <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/07ea407023298ae1c35fe941b0e9abb80ae89bf21085403cab00f76c240b52ef/IMG_0460.JPG" data-mid="120768779" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/07ea407023298ae1c35fe941b0e9abb80ae89bf21085403cab00f76c240b52ef/IMG_0460.JPG" /> <img width="1136" height="640" width_o="1136" height_o="640" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4afdd98df7723c02e79e4436ddd33c11a782db0889927f4d16b5af9601922875/IMG_0504.PNG" data-mid="120768776" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4afdd98df7723c02e79e4436ddd33c11a782db0889927f4d16b5af9601922875/IMG_0504.PNG" /> ︎︎︎About the artist Ina Hagen (NO) is an artist and writer based in Oslo who works across performance and communal making practices. Alongside her studio practice, Hagen is a board member of the young artist’s membership organisation, union, and contemporary art institution UKS (Young Artist’s Society) and of Kunstnerboligforeningen (the Artist Housing Association) in Norway. In constructing performative situations and platforms, Hagen merges situated histories, collaborative and particpatory acts in situations of collective, critical reflection. She is co-founder with Daisuke Kosugi of the discursive platform and exhibition venue Louise Dany, that ran in their flat and adjacent store-front in Oslo between 2016 and 2020.www.inahagen.is https://incharacter.info/Rudy-Loewe Tue, 05 Oct 2021 15:37:48 +0000 IC [ Going to an exhibition ] https://incharacter.info/Rudy-Loewe <img width="1440" height="1080" width_o="1440" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/23dd4ef7aa88356375f0bca3facf8af8d315a60f35bd66084c7f997dd8dcfd77/22.png" data-mid="125211375" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/23dd4ef7aa88356375f0bca3facf8af8d315a60f35bd66084c7f997dd8dcfd77/22.png" /> ︎︎︎ Stockholm Going to an exhibition: And changing the story29&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;October 2020 ︎ Location: Konstnärshuset Artist: Rudy LoewePlot: We visit Konstnärshuset in Stockholm, a building that houses two different art spaces. One is SKF - an artist membership organisation which hosts artist from different generations and practices. The other one is Konstnärsklubben, the last segregated all mens-club, which hosts dinner and awards for men only. Task: Imagine a person who wouldn’t usually be in this artspaceWhat do they look like? What do they believe in/what do they stand for?Make a comic where this character is visiting Konstnärshuset. For the Structures and Policies workshop in Stockholm we have invited artist Rudy Loewe to come with us to Konstnärshuset.While Rudy connects to us online through a shaky mobile connection from London, we wander the buidling with SKF Konstnärshusets artistic director Alida Ivanov, the curator Ashik Zaman, and the exhibiting artist Ulla West. This house is for members, SKF as an artist membership organisation but below there is also another organisation, a club for male artists only. How is it when a building hosts different ideas and policies on how to run? Who gets to be involved and not?&nbsp; Rudy guides us through a workshop where we envision different art communities, collectives and audiences. We talk about representation and what the feeling of agency and community does to who visits art spaces. Can we extend the membership feeling, how and who do we want to invite? <img width="3508" height="2480" width_o="3508" height_o="2480" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/67721025aecb304c2733ecadce78b0a414a064ccc115c5decbcbc564fcc1ec45/STRTSU.jpg" data-mid="120768804" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/67721025aecb304c2733ecadce78b0a414a064ccc115c5decbcbc564fcc1ec45/STRTSU.jpg" />Artist Rudy Loewe leads a workshop in how Comics can act as a space to imagine future communities. Workshop with Index Teen Advisory Board and workshop participants of the In Character project. Visiting SKF Konstnärshuset in Stockholm. <img width="5472" height="3648" width_o="5472" height_o="3648" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/919dd9c46a5e500b7863c3f8fa419d3ea24f299edb672fcb39061c960978ec7d/IMG_1885.JPG" data-mid="120768822" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/919dd9c46a5e500b7863c3f8fa419d3ea24f299edb672fcb39061c960978ec7d/IMG_1885.JPG" /> <img width="3307" height="2338" width_o="3307" height_o="2338" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/63201af8f60c8da5aa04090a66e6b65f58ba2285bd1f17138040bd594a2454d9/0683_001-02.jpg" data-mid="120768806" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/63201af8f60c8da5aa04090a66e6b65f58ba2285bd1f17138040bd594a2454d9/0683_001-02.jpg" /> <img width="2338" height="3307" width_o="2338" height_o="3307" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d332f264e83b3968ef9d1e6d8dda6e9e077377f9685d9ab29d339232a2904477/0683_001-01.jpg" data-mid="120768805" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d332f264e83b3968ef9d1e6d8dda6e9e077377f9685d9ab29d339232a2904477/0683_001-01.jpg" /> <img width="5472" height="3648" width_o="5472" height_o="3648" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e9674a8021db7bdc07871eb222a1fc9dc4d4404ff07adf2cd515b8ba4591df3f/IMG_1865.JPG" data-mid="120768821" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e9674a8021db7bdc07871eb222a1fc9dc4d4404ff07adf2cd515b8ba4591df3f/IMG_1865.JPG" /> <img width="3307" height="2338" width_o="3307" height_o="2338" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/625fa6c2c27791564a0f952fae2ea5ae766d3cff5c16ac49acd586a264f40b76/0683_001-18.jpg" data-mid="120768815" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/625fa6c2c27791564a0f952fae2ea5ae766d3cff5c16ac49acd586a264f40b76/0683_001-18.jpg" /> <img width="3307" height="2338" width_o="3307" height_o="2338" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5b74ccb67bda500da01c0d9210880b09d814d1e9c75a6f3f831fe00215b65dad/0683_001-21.jpg" data-mid="120768818" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5b74ccb67bda500da01c0d9210880b09d814d1e9c75a6f3f831fe00215b65dad/0683_001-21.jpg" /> “I made a comic of a girl who works as an electrician. She is called in to fix some errors in the system and arrives in her truck. She opens up the electrical cabinent and is caught by the beauty of the chords running criss-cross and the lights blinking. She stays there, looking at the stream of power running through the small metallic chords. This is art she thinks” &nbsp; ︎︎︎About the artist Rudy Loewe (UK) is a black, trans visual storyteller with a practice that focuses on social and political themes and histories. They use drawing, painting and printmaking alongside their experience of involvement in a variety of activist communities. Loewe is interested in how artistic practice can contribute to conversations on collective care and social justice.www.rudyloewe.com https://incharacter.info/Mia-Habib Tue, 05 Oct 2021 15:37:53 +0000 IC [ Going to an exhibition ] https://incharacter.info/Mia-Habib <img width="1440" height="1080" width_o="1440" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d20f6abd59c0ef37ef694d2a863209f007700830302babb7a65805a61d3ff702/1111.png" data-mid="125207020" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d20f6abd59c0ef37ef694d2a863209f007700830302babb7a65805a61d3ff702/1111.png" /> ︎︎︎ Oslo Audience Choreography31&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;October&nbsp; 2020 ︎ Location: Astrup Fearnley Museum Artist: Mia Habib ︎ Language: Norwegian&nbsp; Notes from the workshop:&nbsp;At Mia Habib’s workshop we visited Astrup Fearnley Museum - Norway’s largest private art museum. The day started with an introduction to the exhibition Antibodies by the American/Filipino artist Jeff Klein by the exhibition’s curator Therese Möllenhoff. Together with Mia we explored the museum and its exhibitions without special instructions (so as any other visitor). Then Mia Habib’s workshop started: We walked together slowly while looking at the art. We study everything with the same level of attention: the walls, the pictures, the grains of dust and even gum on the floor. Everything. Hannah explains: “I got so caught up by the details that I didn’t get any impression of the whole room, I lost track of the totality. Because I focused on one simple object like a painting or a wall it became very present”. Then we took an observation round where we observed our fellow museum visitors. We started to walk and stand like them. We went back between rounds and wrote at least three notes each with reflections on our personal experiences. These notes were laid on the floor and became a collective notebook. <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/91dd2702a872cb11dab6d85e4c7af425157f7fd8c1842369fefa0121bee1558e/IMG_4215.jpg" data-mid="120768881" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/91dd2702a872cb11dab6d85e4c7af425157f7fd8c1842369fefa0121bee1558e/IMG_4215.jpg" /> <img width="640" height="1136" width_o="640" height_o="1136" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0aa716d7e12d53bb2702a73608ee6090a9162ab46efcdc5d414ab7bd776043cb/IMG_2401.png" data-mid="125206785" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/640/i/0aa716d7e12d53bb2702a73608ee6090a9162ab46efcdc5d414ab7bd776043cb/IMG_2401.png" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1ede885fd29f8b66121aabb7104bc81a8b269d9f765366ed1df2e5669ea7b6df/IMG_4210.jpg" data-mid="120768884" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1ede885fd29f8b66121aabb7104bc81a8b269d9f765366ed1df2e5669ea7b6df/IMG_4210.jpg" /> ︎︎︎About the artist Mia Habib (NO) is working at the intersection of performance, exhibitions, publications, lectures, teaching, mentoring and curating. Mia makes work that speaks to the major concerns of our time. She engages broad audience and local communities across social, political, and artistic spheres and in private, domestic, and public spaces. Over the last 15 years, her practice has taken her to dance houses, opera stages, galleries, public spaces, private houses, religious buildings, squats, and sites of protest and conflict around the world, including an installation on the border fence between the US and Mexico, a solo in the mountains of Iraq, a healing dance in someone’s living room, and a large-scale work for 68 people on an opera stage. Habib looks for spaces where her work can interact with different audiences and with the realities of local communities.www.miahabib.com https://incharacter.info/Tormond-Carlsen Tue, 05 Oct 2021 15:37:50 +0000 IC [ Going to an exhibition ] https://incharacter.info/Tormond-Carlsen <img width="1440" height="1080" width_o="1440" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/55ec572aeadc3300c48723094e4d46a85bc247e81ca9be8db3a66a0f5154ea78/222.png" data-mid="125212874" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/55ec572aeadc3300c48723094e4d46a85bc247e81ca9be8db3a66a0f5154ea78/222.png" /> ︎︎︎ Oslo Structures and Policies 21&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; November 2020 ︎ Location: Online / Gallery Bananaz Artist: Tormod Carlsen ︎ Language: Norwegian Notes from the workshop:&nbsp;Based on Tormod Carlsens CV as a model for how different kinds of structures affect an artist, we did research about some of the institutions and structures that have given him money for his projects, such as Kulturrådet, Festspillene i Nord Norge, Det Norske Teateret, Black Box teater and KORO. Each one of us got one sponsor or institution to research before the workshop. We had a Zoom workshop, Tormod was in his gallery Bananaz and we all sat in our homes. When we met in the online workshop we each introduced our research while Tormod hung up a cutout drawing symbolizing each fund/institution on a large window that was behind him. The first thing he placed in the window was a drawing of himself and a suitcase. By the end a big map had appeared on the window visualizing his career path and the institutional structures he had engaged with along the way. Next we recorded a conversation about what we think about the economics in the art field and we found personal sounds to include in the recording. Tormod's instruction was “close your eyes and think about everything you know about the art world. If this world was a sound, what would it sound like to you? It can be anything; the sound of a forest, various birds, background noises from traffic, background noises from a bazaar, a gallery, a clapping audience - use your imagination and do not be too self-critical.” <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/85878c395983ecb6541eb22a6023e8465ec713222b0787c606ccd1bad8664dbe/IMG_0956.jpg" data-mid="120768842" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/85878c395983ecb6541eb22a6023e8465ec713222b0787c606ccd1bad8664dbe/IMG_0956.jpg" /> <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8257485b3b85929b4325fae41d76369a0d95e927c9f8f5b105047c91dc28785f/IMG_0955.jpg" data-mid="120768841" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8257485b3b85929b4325fae41d76369a0d95e927c9f8f5b105047c91dc28785f/IMG_0955.jpg" /> <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/83c427c9ae29fe1fe4f54147c3f1b1710ca5f208da4e09cbe253fb0c66a6b7d8/IMG_0958.jpg" data-mid="120768843" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/83c427c9ae29fe1fe4f54147c3f1b1710ca5f208da4e09cbe253fb0c66a6b7d8/IMG_0958.jpg" /> ︎︎︎About the artist Tormod Carlsen (NO) is a director, stage artist and theater expert. He is a part of the performing arts collective Bananaz and is in the Cultural Council’s Performing Arts Committee (2018-2022). Carlsen started as a circus artist and has worked in, around, with and on stage and performative works since 2004. Tormod is a trained director from the Oslo Academy of the Arts 2015 and works in different constellations and with different roles in a number of projects, institutions and performances to develop the performative and stage arts. In the period 2017-2018, he was an associated artist at Black Box Theater in Oslo.www.tormodcarlsen.com https://incharacter.info/Fredda-Berg Tue, 05 Oct 2021 15:37:55 +0000 IC [ Going to an exhibition ] https://incharacter.info/Fredda-Berg <img width="1440" height="1080" width_o="1440" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0db1b26dd2ebf8a068f49ee6c578bd07bff86452aff0d16d1440f4c665ac77cc/2.png" data-mid="125219946" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0db1b26dd2ebf8a068f49ee6c578bd07bff86452aff0d16d1440f4c665ac77cc/2.png" /> ︎︎︎ Stockholm Going to an exhibition: To Play Card Games27&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;March 2021 ︎ Location: Zoom (online) Artist: Fredda Berg Plot: You have been given a tool of great power. By inviting others to join your imaginative quest, you might just push the very limits of possibility. Task: Borrow the cards from our workshop, or create your own. Use an exhibition space as your playing field and invite a stranger to join you. Index Teen Advisory Board met with emerging artist Fredda Berg to talk about truth, power play, and techniques for bursting bubbles. The more we looked at the power metrics within the art world, the more it seemed as if the game was rigged and fair play had flown out the window. Meaning it was high time to shuffle some cards and ruffle some feathers! Guided by curiosity, conversation and the intelligence of play, we set out to create a stack of calls-to-actions, like a deck of tarot cards, hinting at a possible future. Designing our own game gives us a chance to, quite literally, rewrite the rules. As game makers we can have a hand in handing over new hands. The cards act as a tool, allowing us to widen the scope of our presence, geographically as well as temporally. Through them we speak with whoever might be looking, whenever they might be doing so. We can select our players, hand cards over in person, or roll the dice on destiny by leaving a card for anyone to find. For imagery we used open source stock photos; the disruptive core of internet culture meeting the disassociated irony of a post-truth generation of meme makers. Starting to feel flummoxed? Buckle up, we’re just getting started. <img width="3508" height="2480" width_o="3508" height_o="2480" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9e223c59030ae7dcea2ff2dd85908003df04487658bf92c7aca6b5fe7c89d4a0/INDEXINSTA.jpg" data-mid="120768933" border="0" data-scale="90" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9e223c59030ae7dcea2ff2dd85908003df04487658bf92c7aca6b5fe7c89d4a0/INDEXINSTA.jpg" /> Artist Fredda Berg leading a workshop where playing cards for the upcoming Game Manual are co-created with Index Teen Advisory Board &nbsp; <img width="842" height="1191" width_o="842" height_o="1191" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d6b91c41d7586aee4055c473b95b329373e27af78bddf7359465f0724404b29d/ITAB6-low.jpg" data-mid="120768930" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/842/i/d6b91c41d7586aee4055c473b95b329373e27af78bddf7359465f0724404b29d/ITAB6-low.jpg" /> <img width="842" height="1191" width_o="842" height_o="1191" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e03847eb39af67c6255a854bf14c2b6cd62405bdd4008fe7268c917866422264/ITAB9-low.jpg" data-mid="120768931" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/842/i/e03847eb39af67c6255a854bf14c2b6cd62405bdd4008fe7268c917866422264/ITAB9-low.jpg" /> <img width="842" height="1191" width_o="842" height_o="1191" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/678d7b7c03cf20a30fefc650711cc47e5fbc20b82c92da70b4914c16a8fde1ed/ITAB3-low.jpg" data-mid="120768932" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/842/i/678d7b7c03cf20a30fefc650711cc47e5fbc20b82c92da70b4914c16a8fde1ed/ITAB3-low.jpg" /> ︎︎︎About the artist Fredda Berg (SE) is an artist working with sculpture, ceramics and graphics. He works with themes surrounding futurity, representation, fiction, health and linearity. His artistic practice emphasises the importance of queer and historically diminished stories being part of social and cultural canons. Berg holds a BA in Ceramics &amp; glass, and a MA in Craft from Konstfack, University of Arts, Crafts and Design. He is a co-founder of Queertopiafestivalen and the former artist collective Apelns graf, previously situated at Studio Mossutställningar. Earlier collaborations include SFI, Stockholmsskolan deluxe and Tensta konsthall.www.artworks.se/konstnarer/fredrik-berg https://incharacter.info/MYCKET Tue, 05 Oct 2021 15:37:54 +0000 IC [ Going to an exhibition ] https://incharacter.info/MYCKET <img width="1440" height="1080" width_o="1440" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ad2ddc74902d471c0c272aea0c1efe9c035ef7444fb005cbdf32cdcd0956e0ec/33.png" data-mid="126323382" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ad2ddc74902d471c0c272aea0c1efe9c035ef7444fb005cbdf32cdcd0956e0ec/33.png" /> ︎︎︎ Stockholm Going to an exhibition: And Lending Your Voice8&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; May &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 2021 ︎ Location: Årstaskogen Artist: Art &amp; Architecture Group MYCKET Plot: (***missing) (***Text missing) <img width="3125" height="2210" width_o="3125" height_o="2210" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6199b08b7bc1b37ddb723e4ee7c96eb705db60fbdd1e046e8ab5ad6a2cf09000/website-covers3.jpg" data-mid="120768901" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6199b08b7bc1b37ddb723e4ee7c96eb705db60fbdd1e046e8ab5ad6a2cf09000/website-covers3.jpg" /> ︎︎︎About the artist MYCKET (SE) was initiated in 2012 by the designers, architects and artists Mariana Alves Silva, Katarina Bonnevier, Ph.D., and Thérèse Kristiansson. Since then, they have developed their artistic research from intersectional perspectives such as anti-racist and queer-feminist theories. MYCKET’s practice is informed by the theatrical, the carnivalesque and political activism. Together they rummage through the borderlands of the lives we live, and the built environment that surrounds us.www.mycket.org https://incharacter.info/Kristy-Kross Tue, 05 Oct 2021 15:37:57 +0000 IC [ Going to an exhibition ] https://incharacter.info/Kristy-Kross <img width="1440" height="1080" width_o="1440" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5949c48b94d32bd6a3423fb82ee79b04dd2ccc03715e0f0d447b1bbd7e67660e/11.png" data-mid="125161167" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5949c48b94d32bd6a3423fb82ee79b04dd2ccc03715e0f0d447b1bbd7e67660e/11.png" /> ︎︎︎ Olso The Attention Experiment 29&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; May 2021 ︎ Location: Oslo &nbsp;Artist: Kirsty Kross︎&nbsp;Photo: Marit Silsand, Helen RøstumPlot: How do people behave in public spaces? How do people look at each other? What rules are in plain sight? What rules are cultural? How can art highlight/ challenge these rules? Task: Plan a performance in the public space that addresses the attention economy and the climate crisis: consider a message/action, find a location, choose a costume and discuss how the performance can connect with the audience. Then perform, have fun and take photographs. Afterwards, reflect on the performance. How did you feel? Discuss each others’ responses. We began by filling out this hand-written questionnaire: &nbsp; &nbsp;<img width="454" height="274" width_o="454" height_o="274" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/813d55dc60a024b7ffd3469fdb503f40795c50a154069747c8a6925d909f7fd1/Audience-Chorography-workshop-29th-of-May-2021.jpg" data-mid="120768947" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/454/i/813d55dc60a024b7ffd3469fdb503f40795c50a154069747c8a6925d909f7fd1/Audience-Chorography-workshop-29th-of-May-2021.jpg" /> To prepare our first public outdoor performance; we started by scouting for a location. We made a walking tour around Oslo’s Akershus Festning, visiting monuments and sculptures as well as other interesting spots where we could perform. We realised there were many things to think about, for example: How a location effects the meaning of a performance? How should the performance be choreographed and what should happen? How will the audience react to a performance in this space? Who is the audience? What other important issues should we consider in creating a performance in this space such as safety, exposure, shock factor? Kirsty was eager to share her ideas about performance, and she described how certain spaces can be better for longer, durational performances, whilst other locations are better suited for fast, guerrilla-style performanes. We discussed how to find and respond to an audience. We visited Kirsty’s studio at Myntgata to create our costumes. Colours, fabrics, textures – everything we needed was there. In this organised, glittering chaos, fuelled by our earlier activity, the magic started. Some of us dived into the costume bag and played dress ups, whilst others carefully sifted through the materials to find the right outfit. As we helped each other get dressed up, the atmosphere was electric – filled with questions, compliments, laughter, and the anticipation of going out into public. Dressed head-to-toe in a bright orange skeleton suit, Mikkel exclaimed “I finally feel like myself!”. The excitement was palpable as we put together five superhero-like outfits: Partly for confidence and partly because they just looked gooood. It’s important to feel empowered when you are doing something nerve wracking. Before we went out to perform, we had a meeting to include Kirsty in our ideas. We showed off our costumes and gave her the drawings we had made to illustrate and plan the performance. “I think she [Kirsty] should be in the piece” one of us voiced. “And then to the important question”, Kirsty asked, “Breast in or out?” “Out” Nasthea quickly responded to immediate laughter. And we were ready. Off to perform. We decided to perform at the top of a green hill at Akershus Festning. On the hill we would have more control of the audience as they would walk by at the base of the hill and then look up at us. This position gave us more confidence which was important for our first public performance. Marching up to the top of the hill it felt like we were walking in slow motion dressed as superheroes on a mission to make a performance about the climate crisis. We stood atop the hill in a silent configuration with a banner flying over us. The sun silhouetted us and it felt majestic. We then slid and rolled down the hill on a black vinyl mattress symbolising the problems of the fossil fuel/oil industry. We ended up as a colourful tangle of bodies. In the grand finale, Zeinab used a giant, golden fising rod to “catch” Kirsty in her Coral Trout costume. Throughout the performance, the people walking by became our audience. They stopped and looked, then looked away and then turned back to look again. “What is this?”they were probably asking themselves. “Could it be art?” However scary, awkward or embarrassing the performance/attention experiment may have been to begin with, we were all elated to have personally done something new and exciting. <img width="3000" height="2000" width_o="3000" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/97116770459a43e4d934f9276cc617a41610e0d62c90f47fa2a5838a23323d78/IMG_3968.jpg" data-mid="120768939" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/97116770459a43e4d934f9276cc617a41610e0d62c90f47fa2a5838a23323d78/IMG_3968.jpg" /> Performance artist Kirsty Kross (lives Oslo, originally from Australia) joined us – the members of PTAB – to introduce performing and interacting with audiences outside of museum or gallery spaces.&nbsp; <img width="3000" height="2003" width_o="3000" height_o="2003" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/77d16756962721471cb1490502ae26f3c1f5de42c78ff0a146d3785d81df1fbd/ptab.KK-31.jpg" data-mid="120768944" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/77d16756962721471cb1490502ae26f3c1f5de42c78ff0a146d3785d81df1fbd/ptab.KK-31.jpg" /> <img width="3000" height="2003" width_o="3000" height_o="2003" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/66078bde4db7063d0801595aeee05fd5264abe22a71bf9cd38646785d554fbf8/ptab.KK-39.jpg" data-mid="120768946" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/66078bde4db7063d0801595aeee05fd5264abe22a71bf9cd38646785d554fbf8/ptab.KK-39.jpg" /> <img width="3000" height="2003" width_o="3000" height_o="2003" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/646aead7eafb728fc445582fce6254587f547963899452666a38f794a240fc5d/ptab.KK-22.jpg" data-mid="120768943" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/646aead7eafb728fc445582fce6254587f547963899452666a38f794a240fc5d/ptab.KK-22.jpg" /> <img width="3000" height="2003" width_o="3000" height_o="2003" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0a6b1120a98ca500e33c2e42630a71da71a775aa037d5d0b91351032e24413d8/ptab.KK-14.jpg" data-mid="120768942" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0a6b1120a98ca500e33c2e42630a71da71a775aa037d5d0b91351032e24413d8/ptab.KK-14.jpg" /> <img width="2003" height="3001" width_o="2003" height_o="3001" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d5ff1042640196f92e66f3c4ecbfa8ce0080b9026865871fcb6a9206c552fa8a/ptab.KK-36.jpg" data-mid="120768945" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d5ff1042640196f92e66f3c4ecbfa8ce0080b9026865871fcb6a9206c552fa8a/ptab.KK-36.jpg" /> ︎︎︎About the artist Kirsty Kross (NO) (***missing)&nbsp; www.kirstykross.com