by Katrine Sirnes Nesheim | Jun 26, 2022 | 5: Summer Course 2022
a moment in everyday walks by Katrine “How many times have you been walking the same route over and over again without stopping and just sensing the area? Go for one of your usual walks, it could be to the store, the school, the cafe etc. Set a timer for ten...
by Panos Panopoulos | Jun 25, 2022 | 5: Summer Course 2022, 5a Course Preparations, X_Uncategorised
An anthropological introduction to the island of Lesvos in historical and ethnographic perspective. Special issues in the ethnography of Lesvos. The transformation of Lesvos from a “peripheral” island of modern Greece to a “cosmopolitan” hotspot of Global South. Do...
by Eleni Gkrilla | Jun 25, 2022 | 5: Summer Course 2022, 5a Course Preparations
Eleni’s walking proposition: Walk on Soft and Hard What is on the ground and all Nature and human created environments can be seen and felt as something soft or something hard. Follow a path consisting of soft and hard surfaces, feel them,film,or describe them in your...
by Evie Despotopoulou | Jun 24, 2022 | 5: Summer Course 2022, 5a Course Preparations
I frequently find myself looking up at the golden sky, staring at all the colors and the way they are interlaced with each other. Eventually they vanish as darkness consumes them. I like walking during this time of the day, “the golden hour”. It provokes...
by Leslie Anne Løvdal Houck | Jun 24, 2022 | 5: Summer Course 2022, 5a Course Preparations
First, I made this walking proposition: Go outside to a place you find being a peaceful environment. Look up to the sky. Try connecting with it by giving it a name and pronoun. Imagine that instead of having a body, you are your body. As you breathe in the air,...
by Zhiyu (Gabby) Wen | Jun 24, 2022 | 5: Summer Course 2022, 5a Course Preparations, X_Uncategorised
“Freedom in Restraint” Proposition – Zhiyu (Gabby) Wen Take a walk somewhere other than your home that you are familiar with. It can be a work building, a street you walk down every day, a park you frequently go to, or a route you take to get to work...
by Henrike (Kika) | Jun 20, 2022 | 2: Publishing process, ArtsCabinet (UK) team
Thank you for coming to this page from the Encounters issue 2 published on the Arts Cabinet website. You were asked to consider a few questions, and we are curious to read your answers and thoughts. The answer will be collected and published in the form of a...
by Leslie Anne Løvdal Houck | Jun 17, 2022 | 5a Course Preparations, X_Uncategorised
During my time in practice teaching, I did a research project where I wanted my class to do a gender swap of characters taken from the very popular Japanese based anime called Naruto. They were given four different characters that they could choose from swap the...
by Annagrazia Graduato | Jun 15, 2022 | 5: Summer Course 2022, 5a Course Preparations
One of the latest projects I have dedicated myself to is a series of portraits of people from my hometown. This photographic project is still ongoing: I started it in December 2021, the moment I was able to return after two years of covid in which I was unable to...
by Tomine Eieland Dalene | Jun 13, 2022 | 5: Summer Course 2022, 5a Course Preparations
The point of this project was to see how I could make a motive with finger crochet balls on a veneer plate and focus on the color purple. I was determined to glue the yarn to the plate, but further into the crocheting I realized the beauty in each ball and how the...
by Sydney Streightiff | Jun 12, 2022 | 5: Summer Course 2022, 5a Course Preparations
Covid-19 was the first time I had time to take a step back from the trajectory that I was on, focusing strictly on performance. The pandemic gave me space to think about where I was going and what I wanted to do. I had arts that I enjoyed doing but viewed them more as...
by Zhiyu (Gabby) Wen | Jun 12, 2022 | 5: Summer Course 2022, 5a Course Preparations
I attended a class called Creativity in Music while pursuing my master’s degree in Hong Kong. In this lesson, I learned how to use sound, video, voice, speech, instrument creation, and body movement to generate musical creativity. The first project was to make a...
by Katrine Sirnes Nesheim | Jun 10, 2022 | 5: Summer Course 2022
The first task I was given as a student in my arts and crafts studies was to use paper to make a head creation. I immediately wanted to make an old-fashioned, traditional bridal crown from the area I grew up in. These are large crowns with beautiful, small details...
by Evie Despotopoulou | Jun 10, 2022 | 5: Summer Course 2022, 5a Course Preparations
Our encounters with sounds are fleeting, temporal. Sounds come and go almost instantly and they never come back. Even recorded sounds played by different people in different contexts are something else. Become something else. I always had the feeling though that they...
by Tormod Wallem Anundsen | Jun 10, 2022 | 5: Summer Course 2022, 5a Course Preparations
The land I walk with: The Gravel Pit (Helene Illeris, 2020) The land I walk with: Jegersberg. (Tormod W. Anundsen, 2019) Background Module 2: The purpose of the readings and task for module 2 is to move further into ways of experiencing human involvement with – and...
by Keyania Campbell | Jun 10, 2022 | 5: Summer Course 2022
I try to remake worlds by “displaying” them aurally. Part of it is about the nostalgia boom in pop culture, part of it is just my curiosity about sonic memories. My remade worlds can sometimes be described as music. I’ll add something to it in the...
by Maggi Asbjørnsen | Jun 9, 2022 | 5: Summer Course 2022, 5a Course Preparations
Soul Connection As you read this, please picture the most beautiful/interesting movements you can imagine. It makes the story better. Otherwise, I just seem like a crazy person. If you think that is more fun, feel free. Usually, in my dance practice, my starting...
by Eleni Gkrilla | Jun 9, 2022 | 5: Summer Course 2022, 5a Course Preparations, X_Uncategorised
As a teacher at high school, my everyday work is to use my imagination so as to make the topics that we discuss in class more interesting and comprehensible by the students. The work of a teacher is , as I use to say, a “full time job”, because nothing only begins or...
by Maggi Asbjørnsen | Jun 7, 2022 | 5: Summer Course 2022, 5a Course Preparations
Home Home is belonging. My body is my home, and first I belong to myself, a sense of belonging with others and with the surroundings. Home is acceptance, free to be who you are, allowed to set boundaries, make choices, and be super silly. Home is safe, the feeling of...
by Annagrazia Graduato | Jun 6, 2022 | 5: Summer Course 2022, 5a Course Preparations
I remember making this road trip with my mother on a summer day last year. At the time, I don’t remember what made me want to film, perhaps to imbue myself with that energy that places give off and that resonates within us inexplicably. Perhaps simply to capture...
