January 2009

BIOTECH ART MASTERCLASSOrganized by i/o/lab and run by SymbioticA’s director, Oron Catts and laboratory research scientist Katharine Adcroft.Stavanger, November 2008I participated in the intensive four day workshop dealing with hands on exploration of biological technologies and issues stemming from their

Alchemy was awarded the jury price at the exhibition Nordnorsk Kunstutstilling. The show opened in Bodø on Saturday the 17th and will be touring to various places in Northern Norway.http://www.nrk.no/nyheter/distrikt/nordland/1.6431708http://www.an.no/kultur/article4051629.ecehttp://www.bodokunst.no/?a_id=720&PHPSESSID=5f2e6780acdf3efacb533dbe455a7e63w.ab24.no/default.asp?page=5349&item=37766,1&lang=1

Planet in Focus Environmental Film Festival, Toronto, October 2008http://planetinfocus.bside.com/2008/films"A poetic evocation on the alchemy of bread brings the act of baking the most basic of staples, into a high art form. Here nature and human culture collude. Hands pounding, mixing,

...making the invisible visibleA circular conversation between joik and the ocean. Performance with Johan Anders Bær, International Conference on Globalization and Challenges for Oceans and Marine Regions organized by the Fridtjof Nansen Institute, Oslo, August 2008"Our earth consists

Ethical and aesthetical perspectives on nature as resource25.October 2008, Kunstkvarteret LofotenSeminar curated by Eva Bakkeslett in collaboration with Kunstkvarteret Lofoten featuring Maasai artist Riziki Kateya, Eirik G. Jansen, Dr. Philos in Social Anthropology and cultivator Eva Bakkeslett.http://www.kunstkvarteret.no/Prosjekter/AfricaNowIndex.htmlPeople define

Collaboration with PLAN at the University of Osloduring the Research Open Days (Forskningsdagene, Oslo, September 2008.Workshop aimed at children between 4 and 12 about visioning the future. All the stories about the devastating effects of climate change can be paralyzing,