Photo Sage Canellis. Tomter, Norway

Material Strategies 

Funded by PKU

(Program for Kunstnerisk Utviklingsarbeid - Norway)

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Material strategies explores ways of practicing materiality in relation to artistic processes of creation. It responds and aims to contribute to questions related to sustainability and the anthropocene, identity and subject formations, and appropriation and cultural exchange.

With reference to object oriented philosophy and new materialism as an ethical ground, the proposed research project investigates voice and body as material in relation to spaces, architecture and objects.

 

How can we as artists to a greater extent listen to the agency of the material and let it shape our artistic work?

How do human ideas, emotions, visions and memories come into play when the artistic strategy calls for less power and control over the material?

How are performative and material practices articulating the embodied nature of memory?

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The project further develops pedagogical areas that are fundamental to the teaching practices at NTA. Professor in Dramaturgy and Performance Camilla Eeg-Tverbakk led the project reflecting her recent PhD project "Theatre-ting, toward a materialist practice of staging documents", which dealt with object-oriented philosophy as a framework for investigating dramaturgical practice and the ethics connected to staging documents.

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