PCG at Artic Arts Festival, Harstad, Norway June 2018
Seminar and workshop with critics Axel Andersson (SE) and Mette Garfield (DK).
Participating critics and writers: Joke de Wolf (NL), Lucas Wong (CN), Amanda Øiestad Nilsen (NO), Andrew Friedman, Maria Pauliina Säkö (FI), Chen Ran 陈然, (CN), Nína Hjálmarsdóttir (IS), Tachiki Akiko (JP). Anette Therese Pettersen, Hild Borchgrevink (NO).
PROGRAMME:
Dear critics, artists, lecturers, participants,
we are looking very much forward to meeting you in Harstad!
Our seminar and workshop will take place tomorrow, on Friday June 29 at Thon Hotel Harstad from 10AM to 3PM. Here follows some more information about the programme:
Through two lectures and a structured workshop we will discuss two main questions:
1. The potential formats and roles of criticism when dealing with performances and artists that move across international borders
How do different cultural contexts and languages (potentially both on stage and in reviews) affect the critical discussion of the artistic content, the critic’s research of the artists’ practices, the public and professional spheres produced around these critical discussions? What role does criticism have a role in international dissemination, sale and marketing of performing arts?
2. The movement of criticism from traditional news media to new digital and performative formats and platforms.
In the Nordic countries, criticism itself is on the move across borders, from traditional news media to new digital and performative formats and platforms. This affects both critics, artists, audiences and financing. We assume that this is the case also internationally. How can critics and performing arts professionals meet this new situation in way that is fruitful for the performing arts as a shared public space?
Seminar and workshop with critics Axel Andersson (SE) and Mette Garfield (DK).
Participating critics and writers: Joke de Wolf (NL), Lucas Wong (CN), Amanda Øiestad Nilsen (NO), Andrew Friedman, Maria Pauliina Säkö (FI), Chen Ran 陈然, (CN), Nína Hjálmarsdóttir (IS), Tachiki Akiko (JP). Anette Therese Pettersen, Hild Borchgrevink (NO).
PROGRAMME:
Dear critics, artists, lecturers, participants,
we are looking very much forward to meeting you in Harstad!
Our seminar and workshop will take place tomorrow, on Friday June 29 at Thon Hotel Harstad from 10AM to 3PM. Here follows some more information about the programme:
Through two lectures and a structured workshop we will discuss two main questions:
1. The potential formats and roles of criticism when dealing with performances and artists that move across international borders
How do different cultural contexts and languages (potentially both on stage and in reviews) affect the critical discussion of the artistic content, the critic’s research of the artists’ practices, the public and professional spheres produced around these critical discussions? What role does criticism have a role in international dissemination, sale and marketing of performing arts?
2. The movement of criticism from traditional news media to new digital and performative formats and platforms.
In the Nordic countries, criticism itself is on the move across borders, from traditional news media to new digital and performative formats and platforms. This affects both critics, artists, audiences and financing. We assume that this is the case also internationally. How can critics and performing arts professionals meet this new situation in way that is fruitful for the performing arts as a shared public space?
As inspiration for our discussions, we will start by listening to presentations of two recent Scandinavian initiatives – one initiated by a large, traditional daily newspaper and one initiated by a group of critics.
Please see information about lecturers and participants at the end of this email.
PROGRAMME
10:00: Welcome and short introduction. Anette Therese Pettersen and Hild Borchgrevink, critics and editors.10:15: Mette Garfield (DK), editor and theatre criticOn the Danish newspaper Politiken’s competence development project for performing arts critics11:00: Short break11:15: Axel Anderssson (SE)On the critics-run initiative Kritiklabbet.se and the role of editing in criticism
12:00-14:00 Lunch and structured workshop discussions (groups)14:00-15:00 Workshop sum-up. Plenary presentations from group discussions
For tickets to festival performances, please contact Geir Lindahl geir@pahn.no
Any other questions, to the below please let us know!
All the best,
Anette and Hild (mob. +47 47414701), email: post@hildborchgrevink.no
On the presenters:
Mette Garfield (DK) is the Editor in Chief at ISCENE, a Danish magazine for performing arts funded by the Danish Ministry of Culture. Garfield heads the main Danish daily newspaper Politiken’s education project for new performing arts critics. Garfield is based in Copenhagen an freelances for various websites, e.g. thetheatretimes.com, Peripeti and Kunsten.Nu, as performance, theatre and contemporary art critic, journalist and editor. She holds a M.A. in Literature and Culture journalism and is a freelance writer on performance art, photography and video art.
https://iscene.dk/www.politiken.dk
Axel Andersson (SE) is a writer and critic from Sweden. Until June 2018 he was the editor of Kritiklabbet.se, a 2-year collaboration between a group of critics and one of Sweden’s largest publishing houses, aimed at experimenting with forms of writing and models of financing of contemporary criticism. Andersson holds a PhD in history from the European University Institute in Florence and his work often deals with the intersection of media, postcolonial history, and critical theory. He also writes on contemporary art and cinema. He is currently working on a project investigating the techniques of the body, media technology, and concepts of race and is the author of A Hero for the Atomic Age: Thor Heyerdahl and the Kon-Tiki Expedition (2010).
About us:
Anette Therese Pettersen is a performing arts critic, curator, editor and writer. She has an MA in theatre research from the University of Oslo, and writes reviews for Morgenbladet, Scenekunst.no, Fædrelandsvennen and Norsk Shakespeare- og Teatertidsskrift. She has worked as a producer within the performing arts, and still works with choreographer Henriette Pedersen. She is one of the co-founders of Writingshop, a long term collaborative project with theree European critics (Diana Damian Martin, Sergio Lo Gatto, Karl Svantesson) examining the processes and politics of contemporary critical practice.
Hild Borchgrevink works as a music and performing arts critic, writer and curator along with own artistic practice. She writes on music and music theatre for Dagsavisen and Scenekunst.no. She holds an MFA in art and public spaces from the Oslo National Academy of the Arts, and degrees in musicology, creative writing and performative criticism. 2012-2017 she was the editor of Scenekunst.no. She has experience as a project and workshop leader for contemporary music festivals such as Nordic Music Days and Ultima and is currently part of the music panel of the Nordic Culture Fund.
CALL: Performing arts criticism across national borders
Performing artists in Norway increasingly tour their productions internationally. Parallel to this, criticism expands from traditional news media to new publishing platforms. Do performing arts reviews contribute to international dissemination of performances? What role does criticism play in a major Nordic newspaper and in a web editorial run by critics?
Arctic Arts Festival and Ravnedans invite performing artists, writers and critics to lectures and workshops on performing arts criticism in a globalized world.
Arctic Arts Festival, Harstad, Norway 29 June 2018
Lecture: Mette Garfield (DK) on the newspaper Politiken’s critics education
Lecture: Axel Andersson (SE) on the web editorial Kritiklabbet.se, initiated by critics
Workshop and panel discussion
Ravnedans, Kristiansand, Norway July 9, 2018
Lecture: Mette Garfield on the newspaper Politiken’s critics education
Workshop and panel discussion
Lectures are open to everyone interested in performing arts and performing arts criticism. As a workshop participant, you will meet and discuss with performing arts critics who write for editors in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, France, Japan and the United States.
Workshop and panel talks will be moderated by critics Hild Borchgrevink and Anette Therese Pettersen, both former editors of the Norwegian online magazine Scenekunst.no
The project is initiated by PAHN, Dansearena Nord, Arctic Arts Festival and Ravnedans.