V-festival: Creating sustainable conditions for artists in the North
with Bianca Hisse, Patricia Carolina, and Lin, Pei Han.
What?
How can Tromsø create sustainable conditions, economic, social, and institutional, that allow artists to build long-term practices in the region?
Celebrating its 5th anniversary, Verdensrommet presents V Festival: We Are Still Here – a week of public talks, screenings, a workshop, a party and other satellite events in partnering venues across Oslo, Bergen, Trondheim, Stavanger and Tromsø.
For its Tromsø event, a panel discussion will be presented at Tromsø Kunstforening. This discussion will focus on how Tromsø's art scene currently supports locally-based Norwegian and non-EU artists, and what barriers push them toward relocating to southern hubs like Oslo? How can Tromsø create sustainable conditions—economic, social, and institutional—that encourage artists to remain in the region rather than migrate toward national centers?
The panel is comprised of Bianca Hisse, Lin, Pei Han and Patricia Carolina (Verdensrommet), and will be moderated by Ruth Aitken. in English.
V Festival: We Are Still Here aims to create a forum for criticality, mutual support and interdisciplinary collaboration, encouraging new ideas around the future for art practitioners in Norway, particularly non-EU artists.
Verdensrommet is a mutual support network for non-EU creative professionals in Norway. It was created in 2020 to address the precarious conditions of visual artists whose citizenship led them to slip through the state's support net. The low-income levels, highly bureaucratic regimes, unrealistic immigration policies, limited accessibility to social assistance, and the cultural deficit in public life accentuated by the Covid-19 pandemic have worsened the already precarious cultural workers' economy.
www.verdensrommet.network/wearestillhere
Panellists:
Born and raised in Brazil, she currently works from Oslo. Her artistic practice investigates the way places have been choreographed by social and political issues, employing performance as a tool for imagination and resistance. Blurring the boundaries between visual arts and dance, her research delves into how diaspora histories and macro-movements across geographical or imagined borders are entangled.
Lin, Pei-Han is a multidisciplinary artist whose research-based works encompass painting, moving image, sculpture, textile, architecture, installation, sound, and text. Lin is dedicated to exploring the intersections of culture, memory, and identity; inviting viewers to engage in critical dialogue and deep reflection on the complexities of cultural heritage. Her research emerges within politics, environmental justice, and human rights, and combines data forensics with aesthetics of protest and vulnerability. Lin holds a B Arch in Architecture Design from Shin Chien University, Taiwan, and MFAs from the Art Academies in Trondheim and Tromsø, Norway. Her work has been exhibited widely across Norway, and internationally.
Patricia Carolina (MX) is an artist and organizer based in Oslo. She works primarily with video, text and textile. Intricately weaving together ideas on language, progress and loss, her practice follows the relation between water, underground structures and the domestic landscapes. Nets of support, power and kinship are also important structures. As a migrant artist, she is invested in creating cultural infrastructure with and for others. In 2022 she became an active member of the mutual support network Verdensrommet for migrant artists in Norway. Carolina graduated from the Iceland University of the Arts (BA 2019) and Kunsthøgskolen i Oslo (MFA 2022). Her works have been shown in Norway, Finland, Mexico, Estonia, Brazil and Iceland.
