The Artistic Research Autumn Forum is organized twice a year by the Norwegian Artistic Research Programme. The forum takes place physically and digitally.

Artistic Research Spring Forum 17-19 March 2025

The Artistic Research Spring Forum 2025 takes place in Oslo 17-19 March and online 21 March.

ARF Spring 2025 will run in parallel to the 7th annual AR@K symposium.

Host: Kristiania University of Applied Sciences (Chr. Krohgs gate 32 and Urtegata 9, Oslo).

Latest updates

20 March 2025 09:25:

ARF continues digitally on Friday 21 March with the three last presentations. The link to Zoom is published in the program. Hope to see you in Zoom!

17 March 2025 18:20:

Please note that we document the event through photography for use related to ARF and the Norwegian Artistic Research School (presentations, reports, communication about future events). We will specifically ask if we take close-up photos, and you are welcome to reserve yourself from photography by contacting Linda Lien, Geir Strøm, or Ingrid Milde, or by sending an e-mail to pku@hkdir.no.

Program

Monday 17 March

Venue: Kristiania - Fjerdingen, Chr. Krohgs gate 32

08:30 - 09:00

Registration and coffee

09:00 - 09:20

Welcome and symposium opening AR@K & ARF

Mezzanine

09:30 - 10:15

Keynote: Filmmaking the other: Evaluating the truth claims of the contemporary biographical fiction film

Michael Bentham

(FAU 101)

10:30 - 11:45 (AR@K)

Track 1:

Pedagogical Strategies

(FUN 201)

Presenters: Irene Velten Rothmund, Olivier Chateau, Guro von Germeten/David Fielder

Chair: Linn Skoglund

Track 2:

Copy / Truth

(FAU 308)

Presenters: Trond Klevgaard, Toon Leén, Ana Telles

Chair: Synne Skjulstad

Track 3:

Towards Musical Reality

(FAU 310)

Presenters: Claus Sohn Andersen, Liv Vester Larsen, Lorenzo Orsenigo

Chair: Jørn Mortensen

Track 4:

Representation of The Other

(FAU 301)

Presenters: Nina Grünfeld, Maxine Gee, Agnete Haaland

Chair: Kai Schwind

Track 5:

Digital track, reecorded talks running in loop all day

(FUN 309)

Presenters: Soudhamini, Ana Barros, Renata Ferraz og An van Dienderen.

All day - Monday and Tuesday

11:45 - 12:45

Lunch

12:45 - 14:00 (AR@K)

Track 1:

PERFORMANCE

(FAU 101)

"Sirens Call" ved 10 Percent Human Collective (ca. 30-40 min)

Presenters: Marie Dahlén/Signe Domogalla

Track 2:

Layers/Textures

(FAU 308)

Presenters: Andreas Oddekalv, Nicholas Cornica/Victor Lazarov

Chair: Jørgen Langdalen

Track 3:

Truthseeking in Storytelling

(FAU 310)

Presenters: Siri Senje, Elin Festøy, Marie Macneill

Chair: Jørn Mortensen

Track 4:

Perception Machines

(FAU 311)

Presenters: Vincent Thornhill, Julia Heurling, Ottó Banovits

Chair: Synne Tollerud Bull

Track 1

(FUN 201)

Supervisors´ seminar

Only for supervisors and institutional representatives

Track 2

(FUN 118)

PhD students´ introduction seminar

(only for PhD students who have completed the online introducton seminar to the Norwegian Artistic Research School in 2024/2025).

14:00 - 14:30

Coffee & fruit

14:30 - 15:45 (AR@K)

Track 1:

On Ethics

(FAU 101)

Presenters: Marius D. Brandrud, Thomas Brennan, Ilmi -gutzeit Mathiesen / Line Halvorsen

Chair: Kai Schwind

Track 2:

Staging Realities

(FAU 308)

Presenters: Erik Eger-Schøyen, Jeppe Kristensen, Carly Wijs

Chair: Audny Chris Holsen

Track 3:

Forms of Truth

(FAU 312)

Presenters: Hilde Rustad, Marianne Nødtvedt Knudsen, Aline Braun

Chair: Signe Domogalla

Track 1

(FUN 201)

Supervisors´ seminar

Track 2

(FUN 118)

PhD candidates´ introduction seminar

16:00 - 16:45

Keynote: «Reality and Performance»

Cecilia Roos, Uniarts Stockholm

FAU 101

17:00 - 19:00

Shared meal and social event

Skjenkestua

Tuesday 18 March

Venue: Kristiania - Fjerdingen, Chr. Krohgs gate 32

09:00 - 10:15

Pink = AR@K presentations (last 75 minutes)

Blue = ARF PhD presentations (last 60 minutes)

Green = ARF project programme presentations (last up to 75 minutes)

All day: Exhibition of Den kunstliturgiske kiste (The Art Liturgical Chest). Den kunstliturgiske kiste is the reflection component of Kunstliturgien; PhD project by Liv Kristin Holmberg, Norwegian Academy of Music, completed in 2024. Read more.

Track 1:

Exploring Liminalities

(FUN 312)

Presenters: Eirini Sourgiadaki, Ole Christian Solbakken

Chair: Siri Senje

Track 2:

Performing Presence

(FUN 301)

Presenters: Marie Dahlén, Nora Rinne, Márcia Nemer

Chair: Hilde Rustad

Track 3:

Digital track, reecorded talks running in loop all day

(FUN 309)

Presenters: Soudhamini, Ana Barros, Renata Ferraz og An van Dienderen.

All day - Monday and Tuesday

Track 1

(FAU 311)

Marie Suul Brobakke (INN)

Moderator: Edit Kaldor

Track 2

(FAU 101)

Ingeborg Dalheim (NMH)

Moderator: Bjørn Erik Haugen

Track 4

(FAU 308)

All Tomorrows Parties (Brynjar Åbel Bandlien, UiS)

Moderator: Tale Næss

10:30 - 11:45

Track 1:

Immersive Truths

(FUN 312)

Presenters: James Wen, Karin Verelst, Thomas Ballhausen

Chair: Claus Sohn Andersen

Track 2:

Transforming Visions

(FUN 301)

Presenters: Kristina Dziedziec Wright, Carolina V. Lio, Synne Tollerud Bull

Chair: Synne Skjulstad

Track 1

(FAU 311)

MEMORYWORK (Per Roar, KHiO)

Moderator: Edit Kaldor

Track 2

(FAU 101)

Eir Inderhaug (NMH)

Moderator: Bjørn Erik Haugen

Track 3

(FAU 310)

Halldis Rønning (UiS)

Moderator: Petrine Vinje

Track 4

(FAU 308)

Materiality of White (Marte Johnslien, KHiO)

Moderator: Tale Næss

11:45 - 13:00

Lunch

13:00 - 14:00

Keynote: “Realities and inventions in literary non-fiction”

Espen Ytreberg, Universitetet i Oslo

FAU 101

14:00 - 14:15

Coffee & fruit

14:15 - 15:00

Panel discussion: Michael Bentham, Cecilia Roos, Espen Ytreberg

FAU 101

Track 3 - 14:15-15:15

(FUN 118)

Trygve Nielsen (NTNU)

Moderator: Søren Thilo Funder

15:00 - 15:15

Closing of AR@K 2025:

FAU 101

15:30 - 16:30

Track 1

(FAU 311)

Denise Hauser (NTNU)

Moderator: Edit Kaldor

Track 2

(FAU 101)

Christian Stene (UiB)

Moderator: Bjørn Erik Haugen

Track 3

(FAU 310)

Oskar Johanson (NTNU)

Moderator: Søren Thilo Funder

Track 4

(FAU 308)

Beyond Heritage (Tim Parry-Williams, UiB, and Franz Petter Schmidt, KHiO)

Moderator: Liv Kristin Holmberg

16:45- 17:45

Track 1

(FAU 311)

Ole Christian Solbakken (INN)

Moderator: Edit Kaldor

Track 2

(FAU 101)

Isa Katharina Gericke (KHiO)

Moderator: Bjørn Erik Haugen

Track 3

(FAU 310)

Olga Lucko (NTNU)

Moderator: Søren Thilo Funder

Track 4

(FAU 308)

1001Nord (Geir Davidsen, UiT)

Moderator: Liv Kristin Holmberg

Language: Norwegian

18:00 - 20:00

Shared meal & VIS release

Skjenkestua

Image: Rut Karin Zettergren

Release for VIS #13: Brieftopia, shared meal and social gathering

(Skjenkestua)

Welcome to the release of VIS – Nordic Journal for Artistic Research Issue 13: Brieftopia, edited by Behzad Khosravi Noori.

VIS Issue 13 presents artistic expositions that explore Brieftopia – a momentary yet meaningful glimpse into a possible future. Coined by Noori as a method of artistic research, Brieftopia represents a space where imagination, politics, and artistic practice converge to envision alternative futures.

The politics of the future are deeply rooted in today’s socio-economic, cultural, and environmental challenges. As societies navigate war, climate change, technological shifts, and inequality, the way we imagine the future becomes a crucial act. Brieftopia resists utopian abstraction, instead offering brief yet tangible artistic interventions that challenge dominant narratives and propose new perspectives on collective existence.

Through six expositions, this issue of VIS explores Brieftopia as an artistic and political strategy – where speculative spaces, historical reclamations, and performative encounters shape new possibilities for the future.

The event will feature a presentation by Tale Næss (VIS Editorial Committee) alongside authors Hilde Hovland Honerud, Jon Hovland Honerud, and Rut Karin Zettergren.

Expositions in VIS #13:

Design Phenomenographies for Industrial Wastelands / By Monica Tusinean
Fata Morgana / By Torben Körschkes
Galaxy Revolution – Space travel as a tool for reimagining / By Rut Karin Zettergren, Olando Whyte

Photography, Temporality, and Thinking about the Future / By Hilde Hovland Honerud, Jon Hovland Honerud
Escalating inter-activity: brieftopic glimpse in site-specific post-human improvised music / By Barbierato Leonardo
Ieally, the biryani that brings us all together / By Saniya Jafri

The issue will be published on VIS website 18 March 2025: https://www.visjournal.nu/

(Book launch by Tony Kauppila in Skjenkestua 16:30-18:00 - open to all).

Wednesday 19 March

Venue: Kristiania - Urtegata, Urtegata 9

09:00 - 10:00

Track 1 (UAU-503)

Gerd Elin Aase (UiS)

Moderator: Linda Lien

Language: Norwegian

Track 2 (UAU-414)

Elisabet Mjanger (UiA)

Moderator: Liv Kristin Holmberg