Creating art away from home
– a roundtable conversation
When you have to move/flee from what feels like home, how does your art move with you? What happens to your creative methods, your approach? What becomes out of reach, and what might become possible? Creative practices engage the imagination, poetics, innovation, critical thinking and powers of expression – how are those affected by movement away from a home transformed by violent conflict and oppression?
We explore these questions in a roundtable conversation with choreographer Hooman Sharifi and invited artists who take part in the artistic residency Repression – Expression // Violence – Creative resistance. The conversation will be moderated by research professor Cindy Horst, Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), and is a collaboration between Hooman Sharifi, Dansens Hus, PRIO and Praksis Oslo.
We encourage those interested in these questions to take part in this conversation with us. Welcome on Saturday 27 August, 15:00 – 17:00.
Cindy Horst is co-director of the Centre on Culture and Violent Conflict (CCC) and Research Professor in Migration and Refugee Studies at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO). Her current research focuses on how individuals challenge the status quo and try to effect societal change in repressive states and post-conflict settings.
Motaz Al Habbash is a Palestinian artist who has lived in Norway since 2014. Motaz works as an artist, producer and curator. In his art, exclusion and the search for identity are themes he frequently works with. Motaz is co-initiator and project manager for "Here and There", a mentor programme supporting artists who are newly arrived to Norway. In this programme, Motaz guides newcomers to establish themselves financially and creatively within the art community in Norway. The aim of the programme is to find concrete solutions – by building bridges between artists, institutions and mentors – that contribute to actual artist participation in the cultural field.