Porøse kunstmøter is a workshop series, where critics and artists seek new vocabularies for engaging with the manifold aspects of the performing arts.
Workshop #5, Journey, Joy & Juxtaposition in Desperate Times, is hosted by artist & scenographer Jakob Oredsson and critic & scholar Anette Therese Pettersen.
In workshop #2, Scenography as/& description in 2024, the participants explored description as a tool or method, and played with presence and memory in relation to specific environments. We practiced writing as describing current and past surroundings, juxtaposing these two modes through a series of exercises and dialogues.
In Journey, Joy & Juxtaposition in Desperate Times, curiosity, joy and pleasure will be our guiding principles. As our everyday experiences are becoming increasingly desperate or even dystopian, and basic solidarity is experienced as endangered, how can we practice openness towards the unknown future through writing? We want to explore the act of collective remembering and imagining through description as potent activism.
The format of the workshop is structured around a practice of gathering, travelling, writing and dialoguing. We invite participants to join us on two journeys to places unknown to all of us, to two collective first encounters. How can we individually describe a collective journey and arrival through different writing mediums? How does the individual experience juxtapose with the collective experience through writing? We will be exploring how we remember individually and collectively, and in what ways distinct individual experiences intertwine as collective memory.
Once again the workshop will be a meeting point between scenography and critique, of different disciplines with shared intentions, seeking to expand our vocabularies of expression.
How may curiosity towards the shared unknown, guided by the pleasure of experience, guide our writing?
The workshop will take place in the Oslo area and has its base at Nartmansstiftelsens studio in Vidars gate 20, Adamstuen.
15.-17.August 2025
To apply for participation, send an email to
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Supported by Norsk Kulturråd and Nartmanstiftelsen, and part of Nartmanstiftelsen’s series SALONG.
Photo/illustration:
Villa Diodati, 1833
Artist: William Purser (ca. 1790—ca. 1852)
Engraver: Edward Finden (1791—1857)
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