Teaching period: October 2-6, 2023, Monday 13:00-17:00, Tuesday-Friday 10:00-17:00

Location: Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Norway

Teacher(s):  Jan Verwoert

ECTS: 3

Number of available places for KUNO students: 1-2

Level: BA/MA

Course description:
Art can channel energy. It does so when it taps into  constellations that generate energy in very particular ways, under specific signs: constellations of stars, combinations of elements, compositions of pigments, constructions of motifs. The zodiac sign, the animal on your flag or shield, the make-up that makes your face radiate, the motif you play in the intro, and repeat in the chorus…: all these form potential signatures for focussing and relaying energy. Art historian Aby Warburg called them “Dynamogramme”.

Energy signs transport you into the presence of forces at work. But they may also come to you from the forgotten past, from the depth of the archive. The spirit of an equally irreproducible and irrepressible event may have left its energy traces on tape or celluloid, in a photo or note, traumatic, or ecstatic, or both it might be. Revive it? How? Or lay it to rest and let it go? Parapsychology says: Ghosts are space-time energy traces. Live with them? Nourish them? Exorcise them? Or seek justice for them, so they can find peace?

The course will be a practice workshop dedicated to experiments in convoking energy signs (in many forms and fashions) and having conversations over how and why do so today, how tap energies from collective personal memory, and how to project into the present future.

Students are expected to actively participate in workshop activities min 80% of the time of the course.

Application deadline: 11th of September, 2023

How to apply:  Please apply via this online form: https://nettskjema.no/a/353768

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

In case of any questions please contact kjerjens@khio.no