WINDOW VIEWS: Culture and Creative Activism is an integral part of The Common Living Room project curated by The Union. This initiative aims to transform private spaces into communal hubs by exploring innovative coexistence concepts. WINDOW VIEWS specifically delves into the intersection of culture and creative activism, providing a unique lens through which to engage with societal narratives. As part of this project, artists and activists are invited to contribute their perspectives on global issues, creating a dialogue that transcends traditional boundaries. The windows serve as both literal and metaphorical portals, offering glimpses into diverse cultures, perspectives, and the transformative power of creative activism within our shared living spaces.
ep. Artists vs non artists
The Union is launching a new series of events entitled THE COMMON LIVINGROOM, a number of informal Covid-free meet-ups in our living room located in Old Town, Oslo. We are starting off with the chapter Window Views, episode Artists vs. Non-artists talks — a format where we invite contemporary minds to confront the stories behind their work with counter-stories from their own individual experiences on other spheres of life.
Artists and others working across disciplines – including media arts, architecture, performance, film, and public practice – will encounter the audience guests through active yet relaxing engagement. The project invites everyone in the room to share their own creative interests with minimal mediation and greater freedom. As we prepare the room to welcome our guests to a creative, exciting, and provocative mutual learning environment.
Taking as a point of departure the finer nuances and the dynamics of domestic life, we would like to promote horizontal and intimate ways of practicing the encounter with each other. So, following that line, why not rethink the site in which artistic splashes and life entanglements happen? As to help transition those onto a hybrid private-public form, curated social gatherings.
As the event takes place literally in a living room, we hope our guests will feel at home and that this gathering would encourage them to mingle, discuss, and exchange with each other and with our guests’ minds. Using creativity, as a common ground, to dig into the stories, anecdotes, and raw realities that we normally ignore throughout the long path of artistic and life practices. When, for example, everything that is not appropriate to include in a CV is regularly discarded, thoughts on breathing and air quality are ignored, grocery shopping underestimated, or tactics on how to seize control of those things that make up our lives are rarely confronted.
Chapter: Window Views
Episode #1: Artists vs. Non-artists talks
1. Yamile Calderón (7/6/20)
2. Hans Petter Blad (14/6/20)
3. Yola Maria Tsolis (21/6/20)
4. Elin Glærum Haugland (28/6/20)
5. Joakim Holm Toreg (5/6/20)
The Common LivingRoom: Ch. Window Views, Ep.5 Artists vs. Non-artists talks w. Joakim Holm Toreg
Joakim Holm Toreg (1983) is working and living at Nesodden, he attended Nordland Kunst and Filmskole and Trondheim Academy of Fine Arts. Joakim is interested in the body in motion and how gravity aff...
The Common LivingRoom: Ch. Window Views, Ep.4 Artists vs. Non-artists talks w. Elin Glærum Haugland
Elin Glærum Haugland (1988). Visual artist. Interested in painting as a way of dissecting and studying processes of the mind and emotions in her body. She has also made experimental films and cond...
The Common LivingRoom: Ch. Window Views, Ep.3 Artists vs. Non-artists talks w. Yola Maria Tsolis
Yola Maria Tsolis (1981). Visual artist, and a genuine fake. Primarily concerned about the plasticity of the mind, time, and space. She is a member of the artist collective Svartjord and is currentl...
The Common LivingRoom: Ch. Window Views, Ep.2 Artists vs. Non-artists talks w. Hans Petter Blad
Image © Constance Tenvik Hans Petter Blad (Oslo, 1962) is a writer of novels, poetry, plays, and screenplays. His last published work is Paris-kontorene (The Paris-Offices), from 2019. read more *...
The Common LivingRoom: Ch. Window Views, Ep.1 Artists vs. Non-artists talks w. Yamile Calderón
The Union is launching a new series of events under the title THE COMMON LIVINGROOM, starting off with the chapter Artists vs. Non-artists talks — a format where we invite contemporary artists to co...
The Common LivingRoom
The Union is launching a new series of events entitled THE COMMON LIVINGROOM, a number of informal Covid-free meet-ups in our living room located in Old Town, Oslo. We are starting off with the chapte...