Teaching period: 6-10 February, 2023
Location: Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Oslo
Teacher(s): Saskia Holmkvist
ECTS: 3 ECTS
Number of available places for KUNO students: 1-2
Level: BA /MA
Course description
Rejecting the notion that working with archives is an extractive enterprise we will in this course focus on archival production and archival fabulation as a consequential act of governance, as a field with effects, and as a vivid space to do ethnography and auto fiction, futurisms and more.
Critical Fabulation is term and a way of working, dealing and addressing history and faulty archives deriving from Saidiya Hartman’s writing on counter narration, stories which, should or ought to have been in the archives coming from a postcolonial discourse and de colonial work.
During the course we will together read Sadiya Hartmans short text “Venus in Two Acts” as a starting point for a discussion about which sources are needed to tell a story. What is fabulation? How artistic methods can speak in-between. We will be watching work relating to personal stories, memory, haunting and gaps, affect as a way of telling. The course also has a workshop part relating to your own work and interests to develop with these thoughts in mind. The choice of medium you wish to work in is free but language, film and performance will be central in the works presented. I will be speaking from my own ongoing work Back Translation as well.
Texts:
· Hartman, Saidiya V. "Venus in two acts." Small Axe: A Journal of Criticism26(2008):1–14.
· Tuck, Eve and C. Ree. "A Glossary of Haunting." Handbook of Autoethnography. Eds. Holman Jones, Stacey, Tony E. Adams, and Carolyn Ellis. London: Routledge, 2013. 639-658.
These texts will be available online in the Canvas room of the course – all students of the course will be given access to this.
Application deadline: 18th January, 2023
How to apply: Please fill in the relevant detail and short motivation text here: https://nettskjema.no/a/308758
Financial Support by KUNO:
Travel support between countries: 330 € (except 660 € to/from Iceland)
Subsistence: 250 € -1st week (5-7 days).
In case of any questions please contact Kjerstin Eek Jensen by email kjerjens@khio.no
