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Avatar Workshop during Summer Break
For children ages 9 to 12
What qualities would you give yourself if you could choose? This year's summer school is inspired by the avatars in Steinar Haga Kristensen's exhibition. In this course we will work analogously and creatively with the avatar as a limitless expression of ourselves.
During the course we will create a new version of ourselves with the help of materials and tools such as cardboard, plaster, newspaper, glue, scissors and a knife. During the lunch break we will play in Slottsparken and make new friends. The course is suitable for all children aged 9-12. Choose between participating for two or four days.
Where
Atelier Felix
Price
NOK 750 for two days / NOK 1500 for four days
Info
If you wish to participate all four days, please buy tickets for both June 23-24 and 25-26.
If you have questions, contact us at formidling@kunstnerneshus.no
About the course
During the summer holidays we are organising a mask workshop inspired by the avatars in Steinar Haga Kristensen's exhibition. In the exhibition, the avatar represents an artist with super abilities in a digitally constructed world. What abilities would you give yourself if you could choose? In this course we will work analogously and creatively with the avatar as a limitless expression of ourselves. In the workshop we design our own avatars and create extensions of our own bodies in the form of prostheses, doublings, camouflage and distortions of our own bodies. Imagine that you are a character in a new computer game, how would you look and what abilities would you most like to have? We focus on robot hands and head masking. The masks can be triplicates of faces, distorted visors and helmets, only your imagination sets the limits. We look at the avatars in Steinar's exhibition and how avatars have been portrayed in other people's art. The children get to choose what they want to start with, and we divide ourselves into robot hand and mask groups.
The course has been developed in collaboration with the visual artist Regine Josefsen and is conducted by Regine and the visual artist Mari Meen Halsøy, both of whom have extensive experience in communicating art to children and young people.
From experience, we know that the school holiday courses at Kunstnernes Hus quickly become fully booked, so don't wait too long to sign up!
About the course instructors
Regine Stensæth Josefsen (b.1988, Oslo), is a trained artist with an MA from the Bergen Academy of Art and Design (2015) and a BA from the Trondheim Academy of Fine Arts (2013). In 2022, she also completed Practical-pedagogical education in design, art and crafts at OsloMet.
Through performance, Josefsen addresses existential issues around human identity and body language. Humor and play are central tools, and her projects are often interactive and in public spaces. Her most recent projects have been shown in major productions such as the National Museum's opening exhibition “I call it art” (2022) and the event “Have you had a trip?” at Dikemark Kulturarena (Asker, 2024) in collaboration with Anna Ulrikke Andersen, NTNU and Trafo Kunsthall.
Mari Meen Halsøy is a trained visual artist from the National Academy of Art in Oslo and holds a university degree in Image Weaving from Oslo University College, Department of Aesthetics. Mari works with a variety of forms of expression, such as tapestry, installation, sound, sculpture, etc. In addition to her own projects, she collaborates with other artists and professionals in various interdisciplinary constellations. Mari has worked for many years with the dissemination of art for children and young people through Den kulturellter skolesekken, as well as dissemination and lectures aimed at an adult audience.
