Imagining Otherwise












Friday, September 4  

Neo Muyanga

Revolting Music: The Songs that Could Have Liberated South Africa

Performance Lecture at Nordic Black Theatre


Soñ Gweha
Libation as a Sample
Sound Ritual Performance  at Nordic Black Theatre

Soñ Gweha is an artist, researcher, community organizer and vinyl collector born in 1989, who lives and works between the outskirts of Paris in France and Vienna in Austria. Through a transdisciplinary practice, Soñ Gweha works with music, poetry, video, performance, installation, sculpture to deconstruct the mechanisms of survival, mindfulness and healing.






Saturday, September 5

A k u z u r u
Luminescent Body - Eternity in the Moment / Moments in Eternity -
Performance Tableau at Botsparken


Luanda Carneiro Jacoel

Kalunga Entities [KLGA ENttS]
Ritual Performance at Middelalderparken


Waldane Walker

MAS Spiral
Participatory Performance at Grønlandsleiret 30


Damien Ajavon 

A Tangled Loop
Sonic Knitting Performance at Nordic Black Theatre



DJ session with

Selecta Harmony

Nordic Black Theatre



Luanda Carneiro Jacoel is a Brazilian artist who lives and works in Oslo, Norway. She studied dance and performance at the PUC University of São Paulo and is a certified Somatic Movement Coach from Somatic Movement Institute – SMI (Netherlands). She is cofounder of the platform ACTS – laboratory for performance practices, fomenting development among transnational artists by organizing laboratories, open studio practices and work-in-progress presentations with discussion forums.


Waldane Walker is a creole Performance Artist who contextualizes their interactions through the philosophy “Make your world smile.”  A Jamaican native, who in their artistry illuminates and provokes socio-political concerns such as gender, identity, and racism – by deconstructing imperialistic structures of oppression.


Damien Ajavon is a textile artist originally from Paris, now living and working in Oslo. As a dedicated artist, their creations are a testament to personal exploration and a passion for sharing stories through the transformative power of mutable qualities of textiles.Rooted in their heritage, drawing on African and Western cultures and queer communities, Ajavon’s practice with textiles serves as a medium for culturally representative pieces that merge generations of African craftsmanship with diasporic and transoceanic perspectives.


Selecta Harmony, aka Dave Barnett, is a Jamaican-born New Yorker who’s been shaping Oslo’s music scene since 2001.





Sunday, September 6
 
Robel Temesgen

 Namesake
Performance at Victoriahuset / Botanisk hage


Rehema Chachage

Out of Bone
Multisensory Performance at Nordic Black Theatre



Helena Uambembe  

A truth, a lie and a fact
Participatory performance at Nordic Black Theatre


DJ session with

Cliff Moustache

Nordic Black Theatre


Live concert with

Bafana Isaac Nhlapo


Solo Diarra

in collaboration with

Neo Muyanga

Nordic Black Theatre






Robel Temesgen is a PhD fellow in Artistic Research at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts. He received an MFA from Tromsø Academy of Contemporary Art, University of Tromsø, Norway in 2015 and a BFA in Fine Art (Painting) from Alle School of Fine Arts and Design, Addis Ababa University in 2010.


Rehema Chachage’s research-driven, process-based practice is characterized by a diverse range of media and methods. Grounded in generational knowledge, memory, and alternative storytelling methodologies, her work integrates performance, photography, video, olfactory, voice, text, and installation to create immersive, multisensory installations which engage visuality, sound, and scent.


Helena Uambembe is a South African born artist, who lives and works in Berlin. Her multidisciplinary practice explores the intersections of personal and political histories, tracing the legacies of colonialism, conflict, and migration across Angola, South Africa, and beyond.


Bafana Isaac Nhlapo (from South Africa) and Solo Diarra (from Burkina Faso) are prominent world-music artists and multi-instrumentalists based in Norway who frequently collaborate on West and South African traditional music, workshops, and concert-theatre performances.