On Structural Magic - a seminar

Liv Bugge lives and works in Oslo. She studied at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts and the Higher Institute for Fine Arts in Belgium. Bugge has had solo presentations at, among other places: Marabouparken Konsthall in Stockholm, the Artists’ House and Intercultural Museum in Oslo, and Sørlandets Kunstmuseum in Kristiansand. She is part of this year’s Venice Biennale and has previously presented work at among others Gothenburg International Biennial for Contemporary Art, Kunsthall Trondheim, Melahuset in Oslo and Malmö Konsthall. Bugge is an associate professor at Oslo National Academy of the Arts.

Ingvil Hellstrand is associate professor in gender studies at the University of Stavanger. Her current research revolves around care, technologies and posthuman ethics in the project Caring Futures: Developing Care Ethics for Technology-Mediated Care Practices, and science fiction as method. She is a founding member of the international collaborative research platform The Monster Network.

Anne Szefer Karlsen is a curator, writer, editor and educator, and Professor Curatorial Practice and currently programme director for MA Curatorial Practice at the Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design, University of Bergen.

Natasha Marie Llorens is an independent curator and writer based in Stockholm. She holds an MA in curating from the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College and a PhD in modern art history from Columbia University. She is currently working on a book analyzing experimental film from the 1960s and 70s in Algeria, and a research project with artist Massinissa Selmani about the Algerian urban planning project from the same period, the 1000 Socialist Villages. She is Professor of Art and Theory at the Swedish Royal Institute of Art.