PANEL DISCUSSION: “Memory Work”

MEMORY WORK comes out of a research collaboration at Oslo National Academy of the Arts (KHIO) between the departments of Dance and Art & Craft. The project involves an international group of artist-researchers, including research fellows at KHIO, as core members. Merete Røstad and Per Roar initiated MEMORY WORK in collaboration with Sasa Asentic (Serbia / Germany), Manuel Pelmus (Romania), Eliot Moleba (South Africa), Solveig Styve Holte (Norway), Nayria Castillo (Venezuela / Austria), Ingri Fiksdal (Norway), Xavier Le Roy (France / Germany) and Myna Trustram (United Kingdom). The project is supported by a group of experts who will thematically contribute the critical discourse and the quality of dissemination. They include Boris Boden (Public Art and New Artistic Strategies, Bauhaus University, Weimar); Nitin Sawhney (Department of Computer Science, Aalto University, Helsinki) and many others. Dr Per Roar, choreographer-researcher, performer, professor and head of the MA programme in choreography, Oslo National Academy of the Arts Dr. Boris Buden, philosopher, professor at Fakultät Kunst und Gestaltung, Bauhaus University, Weimar Dr. Merete Røstad, interdisciplinaryartist, Associate professor and Head of the MFA Art and Public Space, Oslo National Academy of the Arts Dr. Nitin Sawhney, Professor of Practice, Department of Computer Science, Aalto University, Helsinki Eliot Moleba, Research fellow at the Theatre academy, Oslo National Academy of the Arts Nayria Castillo, artist and artist-researcher at Institute for Urbanism at Graz University of Technology (TU). Saša Asentić, performing artist and artistic leader of PerArt (Berlin/Novi Sad) Solveig Styve Holte, Research fellow in choreography, Oslo National Academy of the Arts