NY ORK

New Ork is an arena to get inspired by sustainability and green thinking and practice initiatiated by Osebakken Green Neighborhood in Porsgrunn in collaboration with Grenland Artgallery (Norway). The goal is to see how new knowledge and aesthetic experiences can inspire and create a foundation and understanding of sustainable ways to collaborate and develop urban areas. This years theme was earthand the one day event was a pilot project that will continue in 2014-15. I was responsible for the artistic foundations as curator, and also showed my film Breath as part of a film program at the Art Hall Grenland. Invited artists and contibutors: Kultivator from Öland, Sweden and Marianne Leisner, Gaia Architects, Norway.

BIOCHYMICKAL ARTS - FOAM WORKSHOP

No, its not a misspelling but a deliberate mix of Alchemy and Chemistry. A word coined long before the arts and sciences were separated, according to Maja Kuzanovic, initiator of FOAM. This workshop, initiated and organised by the cultural lab FOAM in Brussels, was a master class bringing together practitioners and enthusiasts in the art, science and technology of biochemistry and fermentation, to and learn from one another and ferment together while exploring connections between our different fields of interest.

TREES - the lungs of the world Part II

This was the second part of the project about getting children to connect with the wonders of trees through aesthetics, poetics, play and stories. The project was a collaboration between storyteller Georgiana Keable and myself for the project Kunstsprang - a Norwegian initiative working with art and ecology for young children. Through storytelling and creative work with the children we focused on the relationship between humans and nature that inspired the children to think of trees not only as a resource we can use for our own benefit but as an arena for play, sensory experiences and aesthetic development. In this way we want to facilitate a more holistic experience of trees, nature and the environment. The project was in two parts with four days in May 2013 and 5 days in September 2013 to enable us to bring the seasons into the work. Our goal with the project is that the kids involved should be allowed and given time to dwell on the various experiences we introduce and with plenty of room for imagination, curiosity and wonder. For more information and pictures see the website (in Norwegian only).