KITCHEN TABLE ACTIVISM

Workshop at Barents Bird Festival the 18th April with Nelli Makeeva and Eva Bakkeslett

Have you ever thought about how the bacteria were the first to inhabit this earth with life?

Despite being invisible they are an essential part of our human lives as we inhabit more bacterial cells than human cells in our bodies. We have nevertheless come to despise and neglect these very creative and artistic creatures. In this workshop you will have the pleasure of befriending your microbes and learning how they can become your creative collaborators. You will also learn to bake proper Borodinsky bread with a very old bacterial culture from the heart of Mother Russia and make delicious kefir with origins from Caukasus. And while the bread rises we will watch the film “The Magic Tablecloth” made by the artist Eva Bakkeslett in Nikel and meet the main character of the film Nelli Makeeva. A truly cross cultural workshop where Norwegian, Russian and bacterial cultures meet and mingle. 

RØMMEKOLLE REVIVAL POP-UP CAFÉ

Can the process of fermentation provide a model for re-imagining sustainable and thriving human cultures and inspire new ways of collaborating to cope with the many challenges we are now facing in the world?

The Rømmekolle pop-ip café took place at the White Rabbit Café in Murmansk during the Barents Bird Festival 2015. The café became a place for cross cultural sharing and fermentation to reclaim the sensible and rejoice cross cultural collaboration across boundaries and species.  The participants learnt how to become cultural activists and how it is possible to reclaiming a culture that has been homogenised and lost.

THE ART OF BREATHING

Pranayama workshop in my show In Between at Nordnorsk Kunstnersenter with Charlie Taylor-Rugman. A very enthusiastic and appreciative audience of 35 learnt the art of breathing with this ancient and simple technique.

IN BETWEEN

From my show In Between (Mellomrom) at the Nordnorsk Kunstnersenter in Svolvær, North Norway, 25th February till 13th of April 2015. Showed the films Breath and Meantime with the integrated breath sound installation.