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FEED; No place to call home
28-30 April 2017

City Wide, Oslo 
Naja Lee Jensen, Sarah Maple, Reverend Billy & The Stop Shopping Choir, Suohpanterror, Charlotte Thiis-Evensen,  Garry Williams, Poka Yio

Suohpanterror installation open until 14th May

No Place to Call Home was a city wide series of performances and interventions throughout Oslo. The project asked artists to explore the many different forms of homelessness in contemporary society on both a micro and macro scale. As the conditions for homelessness are rife and we are at a point in time where the rise of the right informs the media's reaction to worldwide events. Countries are putting up barriers and tearing down affordable housing in exchange for luxury penthouses. The project aimed to act as a momentary pause for reflection. 

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This Land - Symposium
28 April, 15.00-18.00

Interkulturelt Museum, Oslo
Henrik Olav Mathiesen, Maren Stinessen Bøe, Charlotte Thiis-Evensen, Garry Williams, Johanna Zwaig  

This Land is a symposium exploring who has claims to land and space, particularly looking at indigenous and travelling communities and their relationship to space and movement. The symposium supports the 2017 FEED program No Place to Call Home which looks at homelessness in it many variants. Artists and invited speakers will present a range of topics from personal insights into artistic practice to activism and spacial politics. 

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KV-TV

KV-TV is the online commissioning platform for Kunst Vardo. Intermittently artists are invited to make performances to camera that are viewable to both a live and online audience. The series of works aims to bring the experience of viewing to an immediate online interaction, available twenty four hours a day.

The initial series includes works by: Nicola Hunter-Canavan, G Â S T, Harold Offeh, Reactor, Holly Slingsby

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Archive

I won't do what you tell me
​11-28 August 2016

RAM Galleri, Oslo
Ksenia Aksenova, Simona Barbera, Tim Etchells, Marianne Heier, Frans Jacobi, Jade Haj, Phillip Henderson, Pil and Galia Kollectiv,  Peter Mills, Kate Pendry, RAM Galleri, Ina Wudtke, ​Vandaler Forening

I won’t do what you tell me was an exhibition and series of performances at RAM Galleri curated by Kunst Vardo that respond to the physical repositioning of the gallery in the city of Oslo. The program acted as a commentary on the closing of the space due to invested capital interests. The title of the program is taken from a line of the classic Rage Against the Machine track Killing in the Name. The lyrics are said to be a response to police brutality and the legitimisation of actions taken by people with the authority to wear a badge, nothing more. The program questioned the powers of the 1%, ownership and the legitimisation of authority whilst exploring relations between different types of politics and the effects of these politics on individuals. 

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feed
9-24 April 2016

Martinka Bobrikova & Oscar de Carmen, Steinunn Gunnlaugsdóttir,  Eva Isleifs, Anne-Liis Kogan, Henrik Plenge Jakobsen, The White Elephant

The first FEED platform took place in Oslo, addressing the theme of feeding from a political and cultural view point. A series  performances and interventions took place in public spaces across the city.

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WHO? Symposium
22 April 2016

Sindre Bangstad, Freek Colombijn​, Lars Cuzner and Fadlabi, Steinunn Gunnlaugsdóttir, Naja Lee Jensen, Anne-Liis Kogan, Kachun Lay

Who? Brought together artists from the Kunst Vardo FEED program as well as speakers and academics to share their thoughts on the art and related subject matters. The invited speakers were asked to consider FEED as a political and cultural concept, asking who it is we are ‘feeding’, and what we mean by this. This was largely considered through the act of giving or the gift, and has explored themes related to migration, the rise of racism, use of language and consumer culture, to name a few. As well as hearing about some of the art works that made up this project and hearing discussions related to these themes, a series of performance lectures happened throughout the day. 

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Private PERSONAL Political
5-6 March 2016

Nicola Hunter-Canavan undertook a workshop at Sognsvann in Oslo which resulted in a series of new performances and interventions with the workshop participants. The workshop explored the power dynamic inherent in photographic documentation of women. This was done by making a series of collaborative photographic works/selfies/aided self-portraits where the group explored notions of authorship, ownership and distribution. In the performance the audience were invited to document the work. 

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Particle
​17-21 February 2016

Atelier Felix, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo
Reactor, Marthe A. Andersen, Anja Carr, Kristian Dahl, Roderick Hietbrink
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Nottingham (UK) based art collective Reactor were invited to Oslo to participate in an exchange process with locally based artists Marthe A. Andersen, Anja Carr, Kristian Dahl and Roderick Hietbrink. Over a series of days the artists met one another and shared ideas about their work before coming together to host an event that was the result of the previous days conversations and activities. 
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