• [Academy Lectures 2015.03.11] 

      Rifky, Sarah (Lecture, 2015-03-11)
      «Qalqalah: The Subject of Language» is a fictional departure from «Delusions of Reference: From Language to Art», which grapples with the question ‘what is an institution?’ Through the fictional character Qalqalah, Sarah ...
    • [Academy Lectures 2015.04.08] 

      Villesen, Gitte (Lecture, 2015-04-08)
      Gitte Villesen was among the first artists in the mid-nineties who decided to take matters into their own hands and get a close-up on social realities with very basic means. Villesen found her very own way of using the ...
    • [Academy Lectures 2015.05.13] 

      Wirth, Jason (Lecture, 2015-05-13)
      Thinkers like Slavoj Žižek, Tim Morton, and many others have heralded the end of our ideological constructions of nature, charging that popular “ecology” or the “natural” is just the latest opiate of the masses. Attempting ...
    • [Academy Lectures 2015.09.09] 

      Hester, Helen (Lecture, 2015-09-09)
      In an interview given in 1995, the scientist Manfred E. Clynes – the man responsible for coining the word “cyborg” – discussed the ways in which various everyday technologies contribute to a ‘human enlargement of function.’ ...
    • [Academy Lectures 2015.09.17] 

      Franceschini, Amy (Lecture, 2015-09-17)
      Amy Franceschini will show a selection of work done under the umbrella of Futurefarmers, an international art collective as a means to ground the modes and methods they use. She will introduce Flatbread Society, a constellation ...
    • [Academy Lectures 2015.10.07] 

      Smythe Johnson, Nicole (Lecture, 2015-10-07)
      In a recent essay, provocatively titled The Non-Existence of Norway, Slavoj Zizek wrote of the latest migrant crisis: “The greatest hypocrites are those who call for open borders. They know very well this will never happen: ...
    • [Academy Lectures 2015.10.28] 

      Margreiter, Dorit (Lecture, 2015-10-28)
      “For Dorit Margreiter, debate about the preservation of late-modernist architecture provides the occasion for probing larger issues shaping our contemporary socio-cultural context: the legacy of the Modernist Movement; the ...
    • [Academy Lectures 2015.11.04] 

      Keefer, Angie (Lecture, 2015-11-04)
      The first stable photograph exists but isn’t visible. Originally commissioned by Witte de With in Rotterdam and recently re-presented as a talk ‘on voice’ at Artists Space in New York, Angie Keefer’s lecture, “The View ...
    • [Academy Lectures 2015.11.25] 

      Terpsma, Nienke; Hamelijnck, Rob (Lecture, 2015-11-25)
      Artists, Anarchists and Watchmakers —a research into early anarchist publishing As a basis for our presentation we will take a number of video fragments of our ‘road trip’ along original copies and facsimiles of one ...
    • [Academy Lectures 2016.01.20] 

      Lepelyte, Lina (Lecture, 2016-01-20)
      Lina Lapelytė explores contemporary forms of performativity that are related to a genre of new opera and performance in a context of contemporary art. Her works are fueled by expression, marked by pastiche and grotesque, ...
    • [Academy Lectures 2016.03.20] 

      Graff, Ane; Verwoert, Jan (Lecture, 2016-03-20)
      A material is always the ghost of itself; in the sense that it embodies its own multiple temporalities. Its past, present and future intertwine in what presents itself to us as an integrated whole, an opaque and static ...
    • [Academy Lectures 2016.04.05] 

      Khalili, Bouchra; Karlsen-Szefer, Anne (Lecture, 2016-04-05)
      Bouchra Khalili and Anne Szefer Karlsen have never sat down for a studio visit; a private conversation between two professionals engaging in the previous works of the artist, but also a space to open up for dreaming about ...
    • [Academy Lectures 2016.04.20] 

      Dahl-Øverland, Kristian; Kristensen-Haga, Steinar (Lecture, 2016-04-20)
      Academy Lectures har gleden av å invitere deg til en samtale mellom kunstnere Steinar Haga Kristensen og Kristian Øverland Dahl. Teknikkaliteten og prinsippets viktighet i møte med bildet – fruktbare handlingsrom i møte ...
    • [Academy Lectures 2016.10.28 ]  

      Khatib, Sami (Lecture, 2016-10-28)
      Imaginaries of History and the Ambiguity of Violence: Walter Benjamin and the Modern Intellectual Tradition in the Middle East | The Centre for Islamic and Middle East Studies at the University of Oslo and the Academy ...
    • [Academy Lectures 2017.01.18] 

      Sharifi, Hooman (Lecture, 2017-01-18)
      Hooman Sharifi is the artistic director of Carte Blance dance company. Sharifi is Norwegian, with roots from Iran. He is a former graduate of Oslo National Academy of the Arts, in choreography. Sharifi is especially ...
    • [Academy Lectures 2017.03.01] 

      Norment, Camille (Lecture, 2017-03-01)
    • [Academy Lectures, 2013.09.11]  

      Neidich, Warren (Lecture, 2013-09-11)
      The idea of artistic research is a hot topic today, especially in our moment of the information economy and intellectual speculation. The problem is that the word research is bound to specific scientific and reductionist ...
    • [Academy Lectures, 2013.09.18]  

      Beloufa, Neïl (Lecture, 2013-09-18)
      In his practice Neïl Beloufa (b. 1985, France) demonstrates a persisting interest in dichotomies; reality and fiction, cause and effect, presence and absence, all of which he communicates through mediums ranging from ...
    • [Academy Lectures, 2013.09.23]   

      Bennin, Andreas (Lecture, 2013-09-23)
      Andreas Bennin (graduated with an MA from Kunstakademiet in 2012) focuses on how our ideas and perception about reality is formed, what and who’s defining them. He has been working a lot with landscapes, in search of the ...
    • [Academy Lectures, 2013.10.02]   

      Stamenkovic, Marko (Lecture, 2013-10-02)
      Is Death a woman? Or, how to exercise control over the figures of Life and Death if they have no body? In his second public appearance in Norway, at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts, 02.10.2013, Marko Stamenkovic (b. ...