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1. theory			Wednesday, 10 February/ 11:00–16:00 Organiser: Mikkel Astrup Subject: 'On Literarity': A workshop on Samuel Beckett's Writings
2. practice		Wednesday, 27 January/ 19:00 Speaker: AA Bronson Subject: 'AA Bronson: My Life in Books' Friday, 29 January/ 11:00–16:00 Organiser: AA Bronson Workshop: 'Queer Zines, Queer Strategies'		Wednesday, 7 April / 18:00 The Norwegian Critics Award Ceremony for Elmgreen and Dragset's 'The Collectors' in the Nordic-Danish Pavilions, Venice Biennale 2009	Saturday, 17 April / 19:00 'Sounds and Measures': Nils Bech in Concert with Bendik Giske, Ole-Henrik Moe, Kari Rønnekleiv and Daniel Herskedal Accompanied by works of Anders Nordby and Arild Tveito
3. project		27 January to 17 April 'QUEER ZINES'. Organized by Printed Matter, Inc., New York, NY				29 April to 26 June Exhibition: 'Sheela Gowda: Postulates of Contiguity'
			10 February to 17 April 'Run from Fear, Fun from Rear'. Organised by Mikkel Astrup
4. history	Wednesday, 27 January/ 19:00 Speakers:Anita Dube, Gavin Jantjes, Amar Kanwar and Will Bradley Subject: 'Questions & Dialogue: A Radical Manifesto' A seminar around the Practice of K. P. Krishnakumar and the Kerala Radical Group @ School of Art & Aesthetics, JNU, New Delhi, India

all events take place at Nedre gate 7 unless otherwise addressed

*participation is open to the public with prior registration. To register please send an email to Anne Charlotte Hauen at anne.charlotte.hauen@oca.no with your contact information and name of the workshop you whish to sign up for.

About the Speakers and Organisers

Mikkel Astrup (b. 1973, Oslo, Norway) is Research Fellow at the University of Oslo, Norway. His fields of research and teaching are literary theory, derivatives of psychoanalysis, and writing. Astrup is currently developing a hypothesis on contemporary writing in his doctorate on Samuel Beckett's prose. He is also a freelance writer, publishing with journals and anthologies on Samuel Beckett, Neo-liberalism, politics, and desire.

Nils Bech is a singer who focuses on the performative aspects of music. A key actor in the Norwegian art and music scene, he has participated in exhibitions of contemporary art both in Norway and internationally, as well as performing with his band, Nils Bech, with musician Bendik Giske, at a wide variety of festivals. Bech combines sparse a capella versions of contemporary and classical music with electronica, in a conceptual stage show laced with cabaret, contemporary dance and sculptural elements.

Will Bradley is an art critic and curator based in Oslo. His publications include the books Art and Social Change: A Critical Reader (editor, Tate Publishing and Afterall Books, 2007), Self-Organisation / Counter-economic Strategies (co-editor, Sternberg Press, 2007) and the essays 'The New New Monuments' (Metropolis M, 2008) and 'Dreaming of Dreaming' (for the 'Dream Politics' edition of UKS Forum, 2009). He has curated many exhibitions, including 'Forms of Resistance' (Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, 2007, with Charles Esche and Phillip van den Bossche) and 'Radical Software', on the underground influences on Open Source culture (Wattis Institute, San Francisco, 2006).

AA Bronson lived and worked as a member of the artists' group General Idea from 1969 through 1994, with Jorge Zontal and Felix Partz. Together, they presented over 100 solo exhibitions world-wide, and exhibited in biennales in Paris (1977), Venice (1982), Sydney (1983) and São Paulo (1998), as well as documenta (1983). They published the influential FILE magazine (1972-89), and founded Art Metropole (1974), an early artist-run archive and distribution centre for artists' editions and publications in Toronto. In the last seven years of their time together they worked solely on the subject of AIDS. Since the deaths of his partners in 1994, AA Bronson has worked and exhibited as a solo artist, curator, educator, animator and gay icon.

Anita Dube is an artist based in Delhi. Initially trained as an art historian and critic, Dube creates works with a conceptual language that valorises the sculptural fragment as a bearer of personal and social memory, history, mythology, and phenomenological experience. Employing a variety of found objects drawn from the realms of the industrial (foam, plastic, wire), craft (thread, beads, velvet), the body (dentures, bone), and the readymade (ceramic eyes), Dube investigates a very human concern with both personal and societal loss and regeneration. Dube was a member of the Kerala Radical Group. She is the author of the Manifesto Questions & Dialogue, written in 1987.

Bendik Giske is a saxophone performer who has explored a wide variety of genres, ranging from pop to contemporary art music via jazz. He holds a degree in saxophone performance from the jazz division of the music conservatory in Trondheim and the Rhythmic Music Conservatory in Copenhagen, as well as the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo. Giske has toured widely and has released studio albums with, among others, the bands Listen, Nils Bech and BG-5 (Bendik Giske Quintet).

Sheela Gowda (b. 1957, Bhadravati, India, lives and works in Bangalore, India) was a former resident of OCA's ISP Programme in autumn 2009, with the aim to produce a project for OCA as part of her residency . Gowda studied in Santiniketan – a crucible of Modernism in India – as well as in London at the Royal College of Arts. Her exposure to different traditions has resulted in a practice that articulates in complex ways the relationship between diverse art historical genealogies as well as between avant-garde practices and the everyday. In the early 1990s, Gowda used unconventional materials through which she expressed the angst and melancholy caused by local socio-political tensions. In her own words, Gowda seeks a 'specificity within abstraction' that avoids strident statements and instead reveals meaning through suggestion. Gowda's work has been included in documenta 12 , Kassel, 2007; 'Fare Mondi//Making Worlds…', the 53rd Venice Biennale, 2009; 'Indian Highway' at The Serpentine Gallery, London, Astrup Fearnley Museum, Oslo, Norway, 2009 and Herning Museum of Contemporary Art, Herning, Denmark, 2010; among others.

Daniel Herskedal is a performing jazz tuba player who works as a freelance musician in the band Listen, Magic Pocket and Lochs / Balthaus / Herskedal. As part of Magic Pocket, Herskedal is currently developing a commissioned work for the Trondheim Jazz Orchestra for the occasion of its 50-year anniversary in 2010.

Gavin Jantjes is a curator for International Contemporary Art at The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design in Oslo. Jantjes has been a member of the Arts Council of Great Britain, an advisor for the Tate Gallery in London and the artistic director of the Henie-Onstad Kunstsenter in Oslo. His works are displayed in public and private collections such as the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Arts Council of Great Britain, London; Wolverhampton City Art Gallery, Great Britain; Coventry City Museum and the National Museum of African Art at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., USA. Jantjes is currently spearheading 'Visual Century', a multimedia project that aims to promote a critical reappraisal of South African Art History.

Amar Kanwar is an artist and filmmaker based in New Delhi. Emerging from the Indian sub continent, his films are complex, contemporary narratives that connect intimate personal spheres of existence to larger social political processes. His work maps a journey of exploration revealing our relationship with the politics of power, violence, sexuality and justice. Recent solo exhibitions have been at the Stediljk Museum, Amsterdam and the Haus der Kunst, Munich. He has participated in Documenta 11 and documenta 12 in Kassel, Germany and is also the recipient of the 1st Edvard Munch Award for Contemporary Art, Norway and an Honorary Doctorate in Fine Arts, Maine College of Art, USA. His films are also shown at film festivals and he has received several awards like the Golden Gate Award, San Francisco International Film Festival, the Golden Conch, Mumbai International Film Festival, Jury's Award, Film South Asia, Nepal.

Ole Henrik Moe is a composer and violinist who has contributed to a number of crossover projects, including jazz performance. Moe is a renowned improviser, and has participated in theatre productions and modern dance performances. Together with Kari Rønnekleiv he forms the duo The Sheriffs of Nothingness. In 2007 Moe was awarded Spellemannsprisen in the category Contemporary Music for his work with the album Ciaccona/3 Persephone Perceptions, together with Kari Rønnekleiv.

Anders Nordby is an artist whose work involves artistic production and curatorial activities. His process-based art and installations draw inspiration from literature and sub- and countercultures. Nordby has exhibitied in institutions such as Art in General, The Swiss Institute, White Columns and Rhizome at the New Museum, all in New York, NY.

Kari Rønnekleiv is a violinist holding degrees from the Trøndelag Conservatory of Music and Royal College of Music in London. She has played with the Tromsø Symphony Orchestra, Trondheim Symphony Orchestra, the Trondheim Soloists and Bodø Sinfonietta. Since 2004 she has performed with Ole-Henrik Moe in the duo The Sheriffs of Nothingness. For the album Ciaccona/3 Persephone Perceptions, with music composed by Ole-Henrik Moe, Rønnekleiv was awarded Spellamansprisen in 2007 in the category Contemporary Music.

Arild Tveito is an artist living and working in Oslo, Norway. Tveito is a multidisciplinary artist working in a variety of media, such as installation, film, video and music. Tveito is also part of the artist group Institutt for Degenerert Kunst with Anders Nordby and Eirik Sæther.