Teaching period: 4-8 March, 2024

Location: Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Norway

Teacher(s): Anawana Haloba

ECTS: 3

Number of available places for KUNO students: 3-4

Level: BA/MA

Course description:
This is a course that explores positionality in which we encounter, digest information/histories, and share or speak about them. 

The course will focus on reading Knowledge comparatively and critical thinking where oral and literary citations are considered on the same level—reviewing other methodologies of looking at art knowledge about art production. In the course, we shall examine how work oral narrative and stories are deconstructed within artistic practices that use sound, actively listening and hearing while reflecting on the materiality, concept, language, and context in which the respective practices are formed and informed.  

 This process will allow us to learn about and reflect on artists' and individuals' roles in working with specific themes and materials and their implications and symbolism regarding their historical context. 

 For this course, I have invited a collective working with sound and based in Berlin called LISTENING AT PUNGWE, Memory Biwa and Robert Machiri (TBC), known as Listening at Pungwe, are a multidisciplinary collective working between Windhoek (Namibia) and Johannesburg (South Africa). Their practice deals with archived memories – which frailly echo traces of life and movement – as well as transcendence linked to the violent colonial legacy and its implication on contemporary lives. Their work focuses on Namibia and Zimbabwe.

https://www.berliner-kuenstlerprogramm.de/en/artist/pungwe/Links to an external site.

 Additional information:

 What to bring:

Every student must bring a piece of music or sound they would like to share as part of the course; this can also be a story. - we shall work with these materials in groups to conceptualise an idea of a sound work.

 The course's objectives and goals are to help the student:

-To analyse the connection between materiality and the theme and concept.

- Learn to use sound material in conceptualising a project.

Application deadline: 8th of February, 2024, 23:30 (Norwegian time)

How to apply:  Please apply via this online form https://nettskjema.no/a/397126

Financial Support by KUNO:
Travel support between countries: 330 € (except 660 € to/from Iceland)
Subsistence per week: 250 € per week.

In case of any questions please contact kjerjens@khio.no