Teaching period: February 18 (online) + March 23-27, 2026
Location: Trondheim, Norway
Teacher(s): Joe Lockwood, Mohammad Bayesteh, among other guest lecturers
ECTS: 4 ECTS (for those who join online and in Trondheim) / 2 ECTS (for those who join in Trondheim only)
Number of available places for KUNO students: 6-12
Level: : BA /MA
Application deadline: 31 January 2026, 23:59
How to apply: Please fill out this online form: Sign Up - KUNO express - Exploring Artistic Entrepreneurship - Nettskjema
Course description
Artistic Entrepreneurship argues for an agency that involves and engages new combinations and new forms of cooperation among researchers, concepts and ideas, technologies, resources, and machines. It paves the way for a different kind of entrepreneurship in the truest sense of the word: Rather than just a business model, it is the undertaking or new beginning of acting together across sectors, across actors and across disciplines, to inspire people to tackle the challenges society faces.
What if we understand Artistic Entrepreneurship as a studio practice—where the “studio” is the messy, real-world environment of everyday life?
This KUNO Express explores “mobility” as a social and artistic practice situated within everyday life. Mobility, not only ‘tells stories’, it produces the conditions in which stories are told, shared and received. Working across cultural, social, economic, technological, ecological and political assemblages, participants examine how practices produce change. We explore the co-production of radio as a method—using it not simply as a medium, but as a social infrastructure for listening, speaking and circulating knowledge – as relational rather than sectoral.
The programme inverts conventional innovation logics by foregrounding sensibility, care and contextual awareness. Through artistic entrepreneurship, participants develop practices that respond to complex realities, recognising time as relational and change as emergent – we relate to this through layering narratives. Love as a concept of giving without planning a return functions as a method that shapes flows that arise from lived experience rather than imposed upon them.
As a KUNO express mobility course, “Exploring Artistic Entrepreneurship” is embedded in an elective course at the Trondheim Academy of Fine Art. Participants are encouraged to attend one introductory session online in preparation for the intensive course days in Trondheim. The course develops artistic entrepreneurship through collective sense-making, critical practice and experimental dissemination. What if, Love is an act of bravery, an act of freedom that generates other acts of freedom?
‘Dialogue cannot exist, however, in the absence of a profound love for the world and for people. The naming of the world, which is an act of creation and re-creation, is not possible if it is not infused with love. Love is at the same time the foundation of dialogue and dialogue itself. ´ P. Freire
Learning Outcomes
Participants develop artistic entrepreneurship as a collective, practice-led form of agency rooted in everyday life. They apply critical thinking alongside relevant research and entrepreneurial methods, reflect on art’s societal significance, and build collaborative skills through collective sense-making and co-production activities.
Readings
Hardt, M. and Negri, A. (2017) ‘Entrepreneurship of the Multitude’, in Assembly. New York: Oxford University Press.
de Certeau, M. (1984) The Practice of Everyday Life. Translated by S. Rendall. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 30th anniversary edition, trans. Myra Bergman Ramos, intro. Donaldo Macedo (New York and London: Continuum, 2005), 89.
Ingold, T. (2013) Making: Anthropology, Archaeology, Art and Architecture. London: Routledge. Latour, B. (2005) Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Bernard E. Harcourt, Cooperation—A Political, Economic and Social Theory, New York: Columbia University Press, 2023
The Labour of Love, curated by Gabi Ngobo and Yvette Mutumba
https://www.weltkulturenmuseum.de/en/publications/?publication=a-labour-of-love https://www.on-curating.org/issue-41-reader/interview-with-gabi-ngcobo.html
“Love and Ethnography” — on Hubert Fichte, exhibition curated by Diedrich Diederichsen and Anselm Franke https://www.sternberg-press.com/product/love-and-ethnology/
Financial support by KUNO:
Travel support between countries: 330 € (except 660 € to/from Iceland)
Subsistence: 250 € per week (5-7 days), 100€ per second week.
Please note that the KUNO grant can only be awarded for physical mobility in Trondheim.
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: joseph.b.lockwood@ntnu.no
