OPEN CALL: Collective critical writing
Performing Criticism Globally
SØKNADSFRIST TORSDAG 30.SEPTEMBER
APPLICATION DEADLINE SEPTEMBER 30TH
(English below)
Norwegian and international artists, writers and critics within the field of performing arts are invited to apply for participation in a seminar and workshop in Oslo, Norway during the dance festival CODA on 21.-22.October 2021. Applicants may also apply for travel grants, see below. The workshop is led by
Runa Borch Skolseg, Hild Borchgrevink and Anette Therese Pettersen.
In the workshop we will explore ways of collective and critical writing, what kind of space is there for multi-voiced critical writing practice? How can we create spaces for writing critically and ambivalently together? What does the individual critical writing practice mean in a polyphonic one? And what can the polyphonic mean for an individual critical practice?
It is possible to apply both as an individual and as an already established writing group/collective. Participants accepted for the workshop as part of a collective will, in some of the exercises, be expected to take part in writing exercises with participants outside their group.
We accept applications via email to victoria@pahn.no
Your application should contain a short description of your writing practice as well as a short letter of motivation (max 1 page) of why you would like to participate.
We can offer limited travel support, applicants who also apply for travel support should include information about where they travel from.
Deadline for applications: 30 September 2021.
Performing Criticism Globally was initiated to strengthen the situation for performing arts criticism in Norway and abroad. The first edition of PCG was arranged in summer 2018 by Performing Arts Hub Norway, Dansearena Nord, critics Hild Borchgrevink and Anette Therese Pettersen, and festivals Arctic Arts Festival and Ravnedans. In October 2018 PCG collaborated with BIT Teatergarasjen, and Dansekritikerrørsla at Oktoberdans. In 2019 PCG will be hosting seminars and workshops at Tanz im August and CODA Oslo International Dance Festival.
Runa Borch Skolseg is an playwright, poet and critic based in Oslo.
Hild Borchgrevink is a writer, artist and musicologist, currently a ph.d. student at the Norwegian Academy of Music and with a special interest in art and public spaces. She has studied creative writing and performative criticism in Bergen and Stockholm respectively.
Anette Therese Pettersen is a theatre and dance critic and is currently working on a ph.d. on critical writing and youth.
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