Teaching period: 24th –28th November 2025
Location: Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Norway
Teacher(s): Marthe Ramm Fortun
ECTS: 3
Number of available places for KUNO students: 2
Level: BA & MA
Application deadline: 7th October 2025 23:59
How to apply: Please apply via this form online: https://nettskjema.no/a/542795
Course description:
"Slide into my DMs #2» is a project oriented class that addresses grey-zones in which artists could find themselves vulnerable and where asymmetrical relationships, political engagement and taboo is placing the individual and/or their affiliates at risk; for example financially, sexually or in terms of their access to platforms and freedom of speech.
Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur for the Occupied Palestinian Territories who recently lectured in Oslo, recognizes that one of the most powerful tools at her—and our—disposal is the act of naming. This is precisely what we will do; «montre ton proc», as they say in France, name your pig! Out of your DMs and out into the daylight! As artists naming taboos, in great company with alleys from art history, we can gather formal and conceptual survival strategies and place responsibility where it belongs.
Through seminars and art making such as drawing, performance and visits to relevant institutional archives and exhibitions, we are approaching useful strategies to counter taboo and censorship. We will look to cross-ideological rainbow coalitions, activism and examples of artist led resistance. For example, ACT UPs actions against unconstitutional ideological crusades by conservative state legislators during the culture wars at the height of the AIDS crisis, Nan Goldins recent legal pursuit of Purdue Pharmaceuticals in the wake of the opioid crisis, contemporary literary practices spurring on the fourth wave of #metoo or how contemporary activists are determined to incorporate Decades of Israeli occupation of Palestinian land in the global climate Justice conversation even when facing criticism and backlash.
The paradox resides in how the informal and unregulated is often presented as a space of opportunity and creative exploration. But who is free to enjoy informal transactions with no track record? And at what cost, to whom?
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
