week 45+46.	week 47+48.	week 49+50.	week 2.	week 3.	week 4.
1. theory				Wednesday and Friday / 7 and 9 January Speaker: Peter Osborne Lectures on the Philosophy of Contemporary Art Wednesday, 7 January / 19:00 Subject: Starting Up All Over Again: Time and Existence in Some Conceptual Art of the 1960s Friday, 9 January / 19:00 Subject: An Interminable Avalanche of Categories: Medium, Concept and Abstraction in the Work of Robert Smithson
2. practice	Wednesday, 12 November / 19:00 Speaker: Sanja Iveković + Pablo Lafuente* Subject: Double Life: (Feminist) Politics of Representation, Media and Women Activism	Wednesday, 19 November / 19:00 Speaker: Nicky Hamlyn Screening: A Compilation of Short Films by Stan Brakhage	Wednesday, 3 December / 19:00 Speaker: Unni Gjertsen Subject: Mai Zetterling – Off the Beaten Track Screening: Girls (1968), dir. Mai Zetterling		Wednesday, 14 January / 19:00 Intro: Marta Kuzma Screening: Film About a Woman Who... (1974), dir. Yvonne Rainer
3. project	Saturday, 8 November / 19:30 Speakers: Barney Rosset + Marta Kuzma Screening: Obscene (2007), dir. Daniel O'Connor and Neil Ortenberg**		Wednesday, 10 December / 19:00 Speaker: Carolee Schneemann Subject: Remains To Be Seen Screening: A Compilation of Films by Carolee Schneemann***		Friday, 16 January / 19:00 Speaker: Jonas Mekas Screening: Geography of the Body (1943), dir. Williard Maas, Un Chant d'Amour (1950), dir. Jean Genet, Winow Water Baby Moving (1959), dir. Stan Brakhage, and Flaming Creatures (1963), dir. Jack Smith
	8 November 2008 to 31 January 2009 'Whatever Happend to Sex in Scandinavia?'
4. history		Wednesday, 26 November / 19:00 Speaker: Bjørn Blumenthal Subject: Wilhelm Reich and Speaker: Håvard Nilsen Subject: The Troll Circle + Screening of Sigmund Freud's Dora: A Case of Mistaken Identity (1979), dir. Anthony McCall, Claire Pajaczkowaska, Andrew Tyndall and Jane Weinstock	Saturday, 13 December / 17:00 Speaker: M.M. Serra Subject: Art (core) Screening: Premiere Christmas on Earth (1963), dir. Barbara Rubin among other films by George Kuchar, Tessa Hughes-Freeland, Peggy Ahwesh, Scott-Free, Martha Colburn and M.M. Serra + Holiday Cheer

all events take place at Nedre gate 7

* this project is made possible with funds from 03 (Norwegian Ministry of Foreing Affairs)

** prior r.s.v.p. is required for this event to fleur@oca.no

*** prior r.s.v.p. is required for this event to marthe@oca.no

Dr. Bjørn Blumenthal is a psychologist specialized in clinical psychology. He graduated at University of Oslo in 1956 and trained under Elsa Lindenberg, Odd Havrevold and Ola Raknes. Blumenthal is the leader of the Norwegian Institute of Vegetotherapy and co-founder of the Scandinavian Institute of Psychotherapy in Gothenburg, former staff member of the European School of Function and Corporal Psychotherapy training in Naples, Italy, and one of the founders and former vice-president of the European Association for Body Psychotherapy (EABP).

Unni Gjertsen (b.1966) is a visual artist based in Oslo working with subjects relating to history and memory. She studied at Trondheim Academy of Fine Arts and University of Oslo. In Gjertsen's silk-screen series Creative History (2003-04) tabloid statements were presented in a seductive form, telling a story of success for ten women intellectuals and artists. She mixed facts, lies and possible truths addressing a relationship between truth and wanting to believe. She employed a similar strategy in The Mai Zetterling-Project (2005), which focused on the historiography on the Swedish filmmaker. Unni Gjertsen's most recent solo exhibitions are Baltic Sea Cultural Centre, Gdansk (2007) and Konsthall C Stockholm (2005). Group shows include Kasteel van Gaasbeek, Gaasbeek/Belgium, Henie-Onstad Art Centre Norway and Rauma Biennale Finland in 2008, MuHKA Antwerp and IASPIS Stockholm in 2007, and Göteborgs Konsthall (2006).

Nicky Hamlyn studied fine art at Reading University. His films have been shown at venues and screenings around the world. His book Film Art Phenomena (2003), a survey of experimental film and video, was published by the British Film Institute. His is a senior lecture in Video Arts Production and Visual Theory at the University for Creative Arts, Maidstone, UK and visiting lecture at the Royal College of Art, London, UK. He wrote an essay on the American filmmaker Stan Brakhage's Roman Numeral films in David James (ed), Stan Brakhage: an American Filmmaker, Temple University Press, 2004.

Sanja Iveković (b. 1949) graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, Croatia. Her art production has spanned a range of media such as photography, performance, video and installations. She belongs to the artistic generation that emerged after 1968 and was raised in Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, and whose post-object art was usually referred to with the umbrella term 'New Art Practice'. In the Yugoslav/Croatian art scene she was the first woman artist to adopt a clearly feminist attitude. In 1973 she started to work with video, and her videos were selected for numerous international video festivals (among others in The Hague, San Sebastián, Los Angeles, Berlin, Paris and Montreal). She has had solo exhibitions and video presentations in art institutions such as the ICA, London; Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne; MoMA, New York; and Taxispalais Gallery, Innsbruck. Her work has also been shown at international exhibitions such as documenta 9, Documenta11 and documenta 12 in Kassel, Manifesta 2 (Luxembourg), Body and the East (Ljubljana and New York), After the Wall (Stockholm and Berlin), Double Life (Vienna) or How do We Want to be Governed? (Barcelona, Miami and Rotterdam). Iveković founded in the late 1980s the non-governmental organization Elektra – Centre for Women's Studies, the Women's Art Centre, based in Zagreb. She is also a member of a number of non-governmental organizations in Croatia, including B.a.B.e – The Women's Human Rights Group. From 1999 to 2001 she taught Contemporary Women's Art Practice at The Center for Women's Studies in Zagreb. Iveković has received awards such as the Canada Council Grant for Visiting artists (1979, 1982 and 1994) and the Artslink Grant (US). She is currently working in Berlin as part of a DAAD grant.

Jonas Mekas (b. 1922) is one of the leading figures of American avant-garde filmmaking or the 'New American Cinema'. He was editor and chief of Film Culture and wrote Movie Journal, a film column for the Village Voice. He is the co-founder of The Filmmakers' Co-operative (FMC) and the Filmmakers' Cinematheque, which eventually grew into Anthology Film Archives, one of the world's largest and most important repositories of avant-garde films. Among films made by Jonas Mekas are Guns of the Trees (1961), the Brig (1963), Walden (1969), Lost, Lost, Lost (1975), Reminiscences of a Voyage to Lithuania (1972), Zefiro torna, (1992) and As I was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (2001). Jonas Mekas' films have been screened extensively and he received innumerous grants and awards, among them, New York State Council on the Arts, Rockefeller Foundation and National Endowment for the Arts.

Håvard Nilsen (b.1969) is a historian and social scientist educated at the Universities of Oslo, Strasbourg and Cambridge. He is affiliated with a project group writing the History of the University of Oslo for the bicentenary in 2011. Nilsen has published articles in Norwegian and international journals, as well as in several books. He is the director of the think tank Res Publica.

Peter Osborne is a Professor of Modern European Philosophy and Director of the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Middlesex University, London and editor of the journal, Radical Philosophy. His books include The Politics of Time: Modernity and Avant-Garde (1995), Philosophy in Cultural Theory (2000), Conceptual Art (2002) and Marx (2005). He is the editor of the 3 volume Walter Benjamin: Critical Evaluations in Cultural Theory (2005).

Yvonne Rainer (b.1934) is an American choreographer and filmmaker, whose work in both disciplines is frequently challenging and experimental. She studied at the Martha Graham School and later with Merce Cunningham. Rainer was one of the organizers of the Judson Dance Theater, a focal point for vanguard activity in the dance world throughout the 1960s. In the mid-1970s she began to turn her attention to film directing. Among her films are Lives of Performers (1972), Film About a Woman Who... (1974), Kristina Talking Pictures (1976), The Man Who Envied Women (1985), Privilege (1990) and MURDER and murder (1996).

Barney Rosset (b. 1922) is the publisher of Grove Press and the Evergreen Review. In 1951, he acquired the then fledgling Grove Press, under which he published acclaimed authors such as Samuel Beckett, Kenzaburo Oe, Tom Stoppard, Che Guevara, and Malcolm X. Rosset also published and distribute controversial works such as Allen Ginsberg's Howl, the Swedish film I Am Curious (Yellow), and the provocative Evergreen Review. He battled the US government in the highest courts to overrule the obscenity ban on groundbreaking works of fiction such as Lady Chatterley's Lover, Tropic of Cancer and Naked Lunch.

Carolee Schneemann (b.1939) is a multidisciplinary artist who has transformed the very definition of art, with work encompassing painting, film, performance and installation. Her works have been shown internationally, at the LA Museum of Contemporary Art, the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington D.C., the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, New York City, among others. In 2007, a dual exhibit at CEPA Gallery, Buffalo N.Y. & MOCCA Toronto featured recent video installations. Electronic Arts Intermix and Anthology Film Archives New York City collaborated on presentations of newly restored and current film & videos November 2007.

M.M. Serra is a filmmaker, educator, curator and Director of The Filmmakers' Co-operative. Her film Art Parade premiered in 2007 at the Womanizer Film program at Deitch Projects in Soho, New York, USA. She was featured in Profiles from the Edge in Swoon Magazine in 2007 and her own work, as well as her curated programs, have been screened at the Museum of Modern Art, The Museum of the Moving Image in New York; The Centre Georges Pompidou and the Cinematheque Francaise in Paris, France; The London Film Festival, UK; The Sundance Forum, USA and The Oberhausen International Short Film Festival, Germany. In December 2007 she curated New York Experimental Cinema for the Kulczyk Foundation and the Warszawa Kinolab in Poland. In August 2008 she programmed ART (CORE): The Avant Garde and the Cinematic Body at The Pleasure Dome in Toronto, Canada. Serra teaches Media Studies at The New School for Social Research, where she lectures on genre and sexuality in the moving image.