Hvileåret
2022- ongoing.
Research project, workshops, text, sound.

Hvileåret is a multi-year, multi-stranded particpatory and research-led project looking at the role of rest in liberation work. Inspired by nature and agricultural cycles such as crop rotation and letting land lie fallow, Hvileåret explores how rest can be reclaimed as a political and generative act by those excluded from dominant cultural narratives.

Rather than viewing rest as the opposite of physical action or mental activation , Hvileåret explores rest as the opposite of mental and emotional exhaustion and overwhelm that comes from living in an oppressive society (that consistently and systematically denies and marginalises your existence).

We look at ways of organising found in the natural world that offer alternatives, and resistances, to the structures that shape and shrink us, to help us reframe, imagine and re-create rest as an inherent state of being.

Beginning in 2022, it has taken shape through workshops, installations, residencies and writing, engaging those working with care, activism and marginalised experience.

Part eight: June 2026
Hvileåret at Kunstnerneshus.

Part seven: June - December 2025
Hvileåret: Mixtape takes the form of series of listening workshops at Jiennagoahti, the Sami Listening Hut in the Bergen Mountains which form part of a sound work, shared in the hut during August to November. It looks at the role that music holds in affirming our identities and experiences, and how sharing music can form community and collective rest. With co-hosts Touki and Nina Eriksson.

Part six: August 2024
Joining Ro Averin to run Hearing Home, a retreat for Black women +,  held at Røst AIR, Lofoten. More info here: https://www.unlrnprjct.com/hearing-home-retreat

Part five: October - December 2023
Exhibition at Kunsthuset Kabuso

Part four: February - May 2023
Performative workshops held at Bergen Kunsthall with people working in activism and community care in Bergen.

Part three: September - November 2022
Mini residencies with four co-researchers workign within activistm and community care:
Ro Averin, Equity and Social Justice Educator, consultant and writer.
Eva Rowson, artist, curator and daglig leder of Bergen Kjøtt.
Isak Bradley, artist and Board leader of Pasientorganisasjonen for Kjønnsinkongruens.
Vikram Kolmannskog, writer, mediator and Professor of Gestalt Pyschotherapy.

Part two: June 2022
“Workshop for those who need rest and their allies” and sound work “Dear you” written colaboratively through the workshop.

Part one: January - May 2022
Research residency at Storeteigen, Øystese run by Kunsthuset Kabuso.

Part 7: walking to Hvileåret: Mixtape, Jiennagoahti. June 2025.