Hvileåret
2022-23.
Research project, workshops, text, sound.

Hvileåret is a participatory and artistic-research project to hold a collective space to investigate, learn about and question the role of rest in societal growth.

Hvileåret will focus on rest within activism and those who fight against oppression through workshops and collective thinking.

Rest becomes an act of resistance in a society that constantly ignores, dismisses, belittles and supresses the experience of the humans within it.  For those who fight for their existance, becoming overwhelmed and exhausted is often the result which infact hinders and distracts from the changes they work for.

Audre Lorde said ““Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self- preservation, and that is an act of political warfare”. The project turns to methods of farming that are in tune with the natural cycles of growth where rest is factored in as an active tool in the cycle of growth.

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

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

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

Part five: October - December 2023
Exhibition at Kunsthuset Kabuso

Part six: August 2024
Workshop and residency on rest for those with marginalised identities held at Røst AIR, Lofoten.