Teaching period:  19th – 23rd May 2025

Location: Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Norway

Teacher(s):  Marthe Ramm Fortun

ECTS: 3

Number of available places for KUNO students: 2-3

Level: BA & MA

Application deadline: 6th April 2025

How to apply:  lease apply via this form online: https://nettskjema.no/a/5006966

Course description:
The course takes place at Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, accessing Jean Brown Personal Papers with the consultancy of curator Caroline Ugelstad and archivist Dorthe Håker. The institution acquired the archive in 2013, a collection that other institutions found lacking of value from a collectible and quantifiable perspective. However, bordering on the private life both of Brown and the artists that contacted her, the archive for example serves a s a document of all the mail Brown received as a collector and supporter of DADA and Fluxus related art. For example, her archive serves as a document of the international mail art-movement, and invitations to performances in the format of both gallery shows and institutional programming makes evident the recent history and possible ways to contextualize performance art today. Our group will dive into the materials and employ the archival furniture designed for Brown by the self proclaimed - but not unproblematic description - "father" of Fluxus, George Maciunas. 

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

General KUNO Eligibility Rules:

- only BA and MA full-degree students from the KUNO network schools can participate;
-exchange students from other institutions, which do not belong to the KUNO network, studying at one of the KUNO network schools, CANNOT participate;
- full-degree students from the KUNO network schools, currently on exchange at another institution, CANNOT participate (neither with nor without the KUNO grant).

In case of any questions please contact  Hanna Gjelten Hattrem hannhatt@khio.no