Imagining Otherwise
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.
A k u z u r u
Luminescent Body - Eternity in the Moment / Moments in Eternity -
Performance Tableau at Botsparken
Luanda Carneiro JacoelKalunga 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 HarmonyNordic 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.
Robel Temesgen