Producer

Guro Vrålstad is a producer and project manager based in Oslo with a special focus on cross-disciplinary contemporary art projects. She currently works for Susie Wang and Helle Siljeholm. From 2011 she has worked on various art projects, often with geographical emphasis on the Far North, such as Dark Ecology and the annual arts festival Barents Spektakel.

Performer and climber

Marianne Kjærsund is a freelance contemporary dancer. She has worked as a performer and teacher all across Scandinavia, and collaborated with a wide variety of performing artists. Kjærsund has also been an assistant to theatre director Kjersti Horn at The National Theatre and Riksteatretet, and director Birgitte Strid at Nordland Theatre.

Performer and climber

Pernille Holden works as an artist within the field of dance and choreography. Collectivity, sensuousness and musicality are driving forces in her artistic practice. Holden has collaborated with a wide range of choreographers and performing artists. Holden is educated at The School of Contemporary Dance in Oslo.

Climber and performer

Anders Rummelhoff is a trained actor from GITIS in Århus. He has worked as an actor since 2005, for and with Kim Atle Hansen, Karen Røise Kielland, Jarl Flaaten Bjørk, Simone Thiis and for Dramatikkens Hus,  Østfold Teater, Rogaland Teater, Det Norske Teater, NRK, Nordisk Film, Fabulous. Anders has worked as a climbing instructor and been active in sports climbing for a long time.

Performer and climber

Sjur Hansteen is a freelance project creator and climber. He is currently working on a concept for a digital detox project in Oslo called Offline. He believes that mind and body are essential to well-being, which can be supported by art, meditation, and exercise. He has a background in psychology and currently studies to become a trainer in interpersonal skills and communication. Hansteen’s primary interest is in self-improvement and climbing, which he combines with traveling and working to climb across the world.

Performer and climber

Henrik Burvang is based in Ålesund and has a mechanical engineering, science system and product design background. He works for the Coastal Administration on climate and environmental aspects within sea transport. Outdoor enthusiast with broad experience from both steep and flat outdoor life, steep skiing and freeriding on snowboards and climbing in particular. He has competed nationally and internationally as a snowboarder, and has established a dozen new climbing routes in the high mountains at home and abroad, as well as arranged expeditions to inaccessible and demanding areas. Henrik is a member of the Norwegian Peak Club.

Performer and climber

Mads Gausdal is a System Integration Manager, and an Alpine climber based in Ålesund. While his professional life focuses on putting chaos into systems, his private life focuses on exploring our world through mountains, the never-ending chase for the perfect crack-line. His favourite place to be is Molladalen.

Producer

Annette Wolfsberger is a producer based in Amsterdam facilitating collaborative interdisciplinary arts projects that relate to technology, society and the environment. She was producer of The Kelp Congress for LIAF – Lofoten International Arts Festival, Sonic Acts and Dark Ecology and has managed and co-curated various international artistic exchange and residency programmes, a.o. for Trans Europe Halles and the Netherlands Media Arts Institute. More on: aaaan.net

Editor

Hilde Methi is a curator based in Kirkenes, Norway. She builds up long-term collaborative projects infusing artistic ideas in local contexts. Recently she co-curated Hábmet hámi, Lofoten International Art Festival-LIAF 2019 including the Kelp Congress, and Dark Ecology (2014-2016) – a series of temporary site-responsive works in the Norwegian-Russian border area.

Theatre scholar and dramaturg

Kai Johnsen is a director and a dramaturg, and currently professor in directing at The Academy of Theatre at Oslo National College for the Arts. He was educated at The National Academy of Theatre and The University of Oslo. He is considered to be one of Norway’s leading figures in the development of essayistic and innovative scenic arts, and has directed more than 60 performances on leading Norwegian and foreign stages, in a variety of genres and often in collaboration with leading contemporary writers.

Researcher

Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay is Associate Professor in Global Culture Studies at the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages, University of Oslo, Norway. He is Principal Investigator of the European Research Council project CoFutures: Pathways to Possible Presents and the Norwegian Research Council project Science Fictionality.

Photo and Video 

Istvan Virag´s artistic practice concerns the social and economic aspects of globalisation, development and mobility – and the impact of these on the personal, private sphere of human life. His latest works explore post-growth theories and interferences between themes such as urban development, architecture, biopolitics and the “myth” of limitless economic growth. Virag received his BFA from the Academy of Fine Art at the Oslo Academy of the Arts in 2016.

Videographer

Since his childhood,  Tormod Granheim’s dream was to work with adventure photography. A move to Chamonix in France fed his interest in downhill skiing, and led him to complete the first ski descent of Mount Everest’s North Face solo. Since then, he has combined adventure with consulting for the Army, Air Force and Navy. A decade after Everest, he became the first Nordic climber to summit all 82 4000-meter summits of the Alps, an achievement that was rewarded with the title ‘Adventurer of the Year’. As an athlete and adventurer he’s worked on both sides of the camera for National Geographic, and his writings have been published in more than 25 countries. After retiring from sport, he started a photographic project focused on big mountains.

Web design and development

Pigment Expert and Visual Artist 

Through his work as a visual artist, for the last 15 years he has been passionate about nature’s color tones. Through the colors that he researches, he builds his own artistic language, just like a composer does with tones. Beyond the aesthetics, it’s also the research in Norwegian soil and minerals that also constitutes a big part of his interest. In his PhD, he is researching stucco lustro and fresco works consisting exclusively of Norwegian minerals and color pigments.

Access, security, historical consultant and local facilitation at Kolsås

Costume designer

Artistic advisor

Benedikte Holen is a curator at Jugendstilsenteret and KUBE in Ålesund since 2013, where she has worked with several artists in developing solo and group exhibitions, public programs and discursive platforms as well as in presenting projects in public space. She is the author and editor of several essays and exhibition publications. Holen often engages in collaborations with artists in which the production of new works is essential. She holds an MA in Art History from the University of Bergen and a degree in Creative Curating from the Bergen Academy of Art and Design.

Artistic advisor

Siri Forberg is the artistic director of Høstscena, a live arts festival in Ålesund, Norway. She has a background in performing in different kinds of theatre, tv, film and performance. Her dramaturgical work includes En Folkefiende in Oslo directed by Rimini Protokoll (Haug/Wetzel) for the Ibsen festival at the Nationaltheatre in 2012. Forberg considers the playful quality of theatre as a key factor in enabling reflection and interaction on the question of human existence.

Artistic advisor

Ørnulf Opdahl is an internationally renown Norwegian painter and educator based in Ålesund. He is represented in several art collections, including the National Gallery of Norway, the British Museum, the National Museum of Contemporary art in Oslo, Bergen Art Museum and the Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art. He was appointed professor at the Norwegian National Academy of Fine Arts from 1985 to 1992.

Researcher

Silje Opdahl Mathisen is a collection manager at the Museum of Cultural History, University of Oslo. She has a master´s degree in archaeology from the University of Oslo and holds a Ph. D on contemporary exhibitions of Sámi culture and history (2014). Her research interests revolve around archaeology, museology in general the history of archaeological and ethnographical collections and exhibitions.