Research Catalogue

Initiated in 2020, Dorsal Practices is a collaboration between choreographer Katrina Brown and writer-artist Emma Cocker, for exploring the notion of dorsality in relation to how we as moving bodies orient to self, others, world. How does the cultivation of a back-oriented awareness and attitude shape and inform our experience of being-in-the-world? A dorsal orientation foregrounds an active letting go, releasing, even de-privileging, of predominant social habits of uprightness and frontality — the head-oriented, sight-oriented, forward-facing, future-leaning tendencies of a culture intent on grasping a sense of the world through naming and control. Rather than a mode of withdrawal, of turning one’s back, how might a back-leaning orientation support a more open and receptive ethics of relation? How are experiences of listening, voicing, thinking, shaped differently through this tilt of awareness and attention towards the back?

This exposition or archive is a work in progress, under construction, for gathering material of encounters with junipers.

Only Here to Adore is an artistic research of the interaction between garden owners and plants. It unfolds in three parts. The first part takes place at Landlyst Plantecenter just outside Hjørring in the North of Denmark where Gerner Nielsen interviews garden owners about what they have purchased at the garden center and their hopes and dreams for their summer garden. These interviews form the foundation for developing scores and a choreography for a performance that Gerner Nielsen and another performer will show at Vendsyssel Kunstmuseum in Denmark. The performance is also filmed by Louise Ørsted Jensen and turned into a video work. Curated by Skal Contemporary

24.11.2024 og 04.01.2024 Deler av samtale under samarbeid om å lage kopper på verkstedet til Anne Line Sund på Nesodden.

Denne plastposen fra Hana & Holmens potterier med bittelitt blåleire i, fikk jeg av keramikeren Marit Tingleff1 under et besøk hos henne på Hønefoss høsten 2022. Hana & Holmens Potterier var basert i Sandnes der de hadde pottemakeri, men også utvant, prosesserte og solgte blåleire til skoler og keramikere fra før andre verdenskrig til 2012.

Sosial keramikk er kopper, beholdere og tallerkener som er laget av blåleire og brunleire fra leirelandskaper jeg har jobbet i som en del av prosjektet Jording med (blå)leire.