English
Fiction: A Reading Group
Welcome to the last session of our reading group on fiction at the Loft of Atelier Kunstnerforbundet on Thursday 23rd of May from 10:00 to 12:00. This reading group is organized on the occasion of Norske Kunsthåndverkere's 2024 Theme Exhibition about craft and fiction at Bomuldsfabriken Kunsthall, “Ned i gruvene, opp i skiene”.
We will read out loud and comment together Alex Quicho’s text “Without World” (The White Review, 2023).
The reading group is open to everybody and will be held in English. If you would like to participate, you can sign up by sending an e-mail to Johanna at johanna.zanon@kunsthandverk.no.
No preparation is needed! Everyone is welcome. For their own curiosity, participants will receive a PDF of the text prior to each reading session but are not required to read the text beforehand.
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This reading group aims to gather readers who share an interest in fiction and art. Between February and May the group will meet three times to read texts that look at fictioning, worlding, and how these intersect with artistic practices. The group’s first session took take place at Atelier Kunstnerforbundet Loft in Oslo on Thursday 8th of February, with Elvia Wilk’s text “Death by Landscape” (in Death by Landscape: Essays, New York: Soft Skull, 2022, pp.3-24). The second session took place at Bomuldsfabriken Kunsthall in Arendal on Thursday 18th of April, with Ursula Le Guin's 1986 text “The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction” (Ignota Books 2019).
This last session will take place at Atelier Kunstnerforbundet Loft in Oslo on Thursday 23rd of May, 10:00-12:00.
Temautstillingen 2024 “Ned i gruvene, opp i skiene” is curated by Johanna Zanon, Kari Skippervold, and Åse Kamilla Spjelkavik Aslaksen. Atelier Kunstnerforbundet is curated by Martina Petrelli.
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Atelier Kunstnerforbundets loft is regrettably not accessible for people with limited mobility, and a long-term rehabilitation of its building is in process. Please get in touch if you have any questions about accessibility.
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About the organizers:
Located in Kunstnerforbundet’s premises in the centre of Oslo, Atelier Kunstnerforbundet is a studio collective and a pioneering project in the field of public engagement, started as a pilot project in 2018. Based on a two-year cycle the Atelier fosters artistic and cultural production by offering free-of-charge studios for artists, in combination with a customised programme geared towards the development of their practices.
Norske Kunsthåndverkere (NK), the Norwegian Association for Arts and Crafts, is an artist organization that works to promote and support Norway-based contemporary craft artists. Currently NK has a membership of 1,050 professional artists and makers from all over Norway. NK produces exhibitions, administers art grants, publishes Kunsthåndverk magazine, and aims to influence art policies.
Bomuldsfabriken Kunsthall is a contemporary art institution located in a former textile factory in Arendal, Norway. Bomuldsfabriken is a meeting place where audiences can experience the latest developments of contemporary art.