Participants at Winter Residency
These are the participants who have been selected for residency at Velferden this winter!
Trygve Luktvasslimo
15.12 - 01.02
Trygve Luktvasslimo (b. 1978) is a Norwegian filmmaker and visual artist living in Lofoten.
At Velferden Trygve will write his new film script Snekkersprekken, a troubled love story between a tax evader and a war deserter, again with the rural village as the epicenter when the past catches up with them.
Trygve takes the district's perspective on global and existential themes as a starting point. For example, the short story film Shallow Water Blackout from 2019, about the luxury cruise ship The World sailing past Lofoten with two climate revolutionary youths who intend to sink the ship to the bottom of the ocean, with all the adults on board. Or Mulighetsperleporten (2021), a radio play about life and death with an opportunistic, northern Norwegian suburban mayor, a kindergarten baroness and a board wholesaler in the center. His first feature film The Bitcoin Car (2023) is a musical about a goat farmer in the small village of Valberg, who has had a huge bitcoin mine placed in the middle of the cemetery.
Herman Hjorth Berge
06.01 - 03.02
Herman Hjorth Berge (b. 1997, Stavanger) works between architecture, art, and academia on issues related to decolonization, the natural crisis, and the climate crisis. Herman is educated at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam and the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm – where he currently lives and works.
During his residency at Velferden Herman will write and develop a project for his postmaster education.
Emma Arnold
20.01 - 17.02
Emma Arnold, PhD (b. Montréal, Canada) is an interdisciplinary artist, researcher, and writer working at the intersection of art and environment. She leads the Institute for Art & Environment, an independent research platform conducting projects with environmental, social, and urban themes. She blends academic research with artistic practice and is concerned with how environmental crisis can be understood through art. Her current research focuses on contemporary art and extractivism in industrial and post-industrial landscapes.
Emma’s work centres on photography as an immersive and investigative tool for place- and sense-making. Inspired by the setting of Velferden and the presence of tailings and landfill sites, Emma will use this opportunity to research, write, and create in a place deeply affected by mining activities. Emma plans to explore the otherworldly landscape of Sokndal through image-making, publish an article drawing on this research, and develop a series of photographs, illustrations, and prints that reflect the area’s unique geology and history.
Qi Tan
07.02 - 07.03
Qi Tan (b. 1994, China) is an artist based in Oslo. In her work, Qi delves into nature’s mystique and the imaginative potential of digital world-building, bringing extraordinary creatures and complex mythologies to life. A graduate of the Oslo Academy of Fine Arts, she has recently exhibited at Atelier Nord (Oslo), Forum Box (Helsinki), Galleri Ask (Horten), Tegnerforbundet (Oslo), Studio 17 (Stavanger), Bærum Kunsthall, Østlandsutstillingen 2023, and Høstutstillingen 2022.
Qi writes: ”My goal is to create sculptural installations that respond directly to the residency’s surroundings, incorporating found materials and video projections.”
Hanna A. Lokøy
10.03 - 24.03
Hanna A. Lokøy (b. 2001, Stavanger) is a dancer and choreographer and lives in Copenhagen, where she recently graduated from the Danish School of Performing Arts.
Hanna writes: “The residency will encourage me to continue exploring my practice of crying, dramaturgy and the friction between them. I want to further develop my artistic interest in emotional movement, as well as explore new and relevant aspects of this through texts and choreography. I see this residency as an opportunity to research and let the practice unfold, while actively working with other relevant movement qualities such as shaking, stumbling, holding and collapsing. I want to investigate how this can be structured with dramaturgical tools and documented for future work.”
Adelina Allberg
11.03 - 30.03
Adelina Allberg (b. 1999, Sweden) works with the collection of residual materials, whose properties are transformed and explored through recontextualization. She is interested in how industry seeps into ecology, and vice versa, and how this can be represented through material storytelling. She holds a bachelor's degree from the Trondheim Academy of Fine Arts (2024), lives and works in the countryside of Småland, and has participated in several exhibitions in Sweden and Norway.
Tone Myklebust
17.03 - 31.03
Tone Myklebust (b. 1970) lives in Egersund, the neighboring town of Sokndal. She has a background in education and management, but has worked more or less full-time with writing since studying writing at the Academy of Fine Arts in Tromsø. Myklebust has published three books to date:
the fairytale Gutten med Trollpikken (2017, Dreyer Bok),
and the short story collections Det stoppar ikkje her (2020, Cappelen Damm) and
Rutine ved varsling (2023, Cappelen Damm).
She is currently working on a novel project with the working title Den kvite dagen. Myklebust is particularly concerned with the fragile and broken nature of human life and with the idea that literature - and art in general - should be a place that can accommodate and make visible what we otherwise try to hide.
