On Common Ground
2024
This was my graduation project from the MFA program at Oslo National Academy of the Arts. It consisted of a series of blue-clay workshops, documentation of these through photo and video, and a temporary clay installation for the graduation show The World is a Knot in Motion curated by Håkon Lillegraven.
I placed a wooden platform of two by two meters in the center of a large room by the river at the old Christiania Sailcloth factory, today’s Oslo National Academy of the Arts, and invited participants to work with me in a blue-clay workshop series. I provided material that weighted the same as each participant from a local blue-clay deposit outside of Oslo. My aim was to see what happens when two or more people work with blue-clay together. First giving tasks to get familiar with the clay alone, then combining the material and venture on a task together.
For the graduation show I reinvited participants to install a temporary clay piece on the wooden platform in Galleri Seilduken. Paulina Stroynowska, Grete Riseng, Beata Daria Kubecka and myself worked the clay mass until it covered the entire surface of the platform. The piece dried and remained in the room throughout the exhibition period and was then demounted for the clay to be reused in new projects.
Photo: Julie Hrnčířová
