Following the project with the same name held at OCA in 2008/09, Whatever Happened to Sex in Scandinavia? reflects upon the juncture of the political and erotic in the 1960s and 70s in relation to the image of Scandinavia as a sexually and politically utopic territory during those decades.

Book presentation in NY
The first public presentation of the anthology will be held at Artists Space in New York, USA, on 2 December at 19:00. In collaboration with Artists Space, OCA will screen Barbara Rubin’s double-projection film Christmas on Earth (1963). The film will be introduced by MM Serra, Executive Director of the Film-Makers’ Cooperative in New York, and screened from two overlapping projectors following the artist’s original instructions. Read more

Book presentation in Oslo
On 14 December at 19:00 OCA welcomes everyone to Nedre Gate 7 for a presentation of Whatever Happened to Sex in Scandinavia? and a screening of Stan Brakhageʼs Dog Star Man: Prelude (1961), accompanied by a performance by Norwegian experimental musician Lasse Marhaug. Click here for more information.

'The State of Things', Norway's official contribution to the Venice biennial, closed on 17 November 2011 with the lecture 'The Experience of Defeat' by T.J. Clark. By inviting speakers Jaques Rancière, Leo Bersani, Vandana Shiva, Jan Egeland, Eyal Weizman, Judith Butler, Franco Berardi, Saskia Sassen and T.J. Clark to speak about what they considered the intellectual and political priorities of today, based on their respective fields of activity and research, the lecture series brought to the biennial a discussion of the urgent issues affecting the world today. With the curtain falling on the Norwegian participation at La Biennale di Venezia 2011, we would like to take the opportunity to thank everyone for their generous support and contribution.

A publication compiling all the papers is scheduled to appear in 2012. Recordings of the lectures are available in the audiovisual archive in OCA's website.

Below is a list of biennials and solo exhibitions by Norwegian artists abroad, taken from the projects that have received International Support from OCA. Complete chronological lists of all the projects can be found in OCA's website. In addition, an up-to-date list of ongoing projects with International Support is available on the recipients page.

Last week on view – Ida Ekblad within 'ILLUMInations' at the 54th International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia. By invitation of Bice Curiger, Director of the 54th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, Ekblad's contributes with an installation mostly created during a recent residency in Bali, Indonesia, taking Ekblad's own poem A Caged Law of the Bird the Hand the Land as a starting point. The biennale closes on 27 November.

Västerås Konstmuseum, Västerås, Sweden, has invited artist Anne-Karin Furunes to hold a solo exhibition that will be on view until 12 February 2012. According to curator Åsa Grönlund, the exhibition ‘focuses especially on the large-scale, closely cropped images of faces taken from archival photographs’.

Artist Kaia Hugin has been invited by Muratcentoventidue Artecontemporanea in Bari, Italy, to present a solo exhibition of Motholic Mobbles, a series of video works that the artist defines as ‘the movement between the space we are unable to see and the space we are unable to reach’. The exhibition is curated by Gallery Muracentoventidue's founder Dr. Angela Gonnella, and can be seen until 30 december 2011.

Cranbrook Academy of Art – a graduate school of art, design and architecture – seeks applicants working in the fields of Critical Theory and/or Contemporary Craft, Art and Design Theory for a one-semester residential teaching fellowship for autumn 2012.
Application deadline: 1 December 2011. Visit the Cranbrook website for more information.

The III Moscow International Biennale for Young Art 2012 explores the works of a young generation of artists under the age of 35 (inclusive) and presents drawing, painting, photography, video, performance, mixed media, installation and sound art. Kathrin Becker, chief curator of the Biennale 2012, will select the participants for the main project from among the applicants. Application deadline: 15 December 2011. Click here for more information and to register.

The programme provides a paid fellowship for curators in the early stages of their careers (beginning autumn 2012). During this period the fellow will work with the UAG Director and Exhibition Manager to produce a series of exhibitions and programmes for the University Art Gallery. Application deadline: 23 January 2012. See the UAG website for more information.

Held for the fourth time, the New Technological Art Award Foundation Liedts-Meesen 2012 Update_4 is scheduled to be held from 15 September until 18 November 2012. The nominated works will be presented at three sites: Zebrastraat in Ghent, Belgium, La Cambre in Brussels, Belgium (for works to be shown in the open air), and iMAL, also in Brussels. In addition there will be a three-day seminar on new tendencies in contemporary art. Application deadline: 31 March 2012. Click here for details.

TORIL FJELDE HØYE joins OCA as the Head of Finance and Administration in December 2011. Fjelde Høye comes into the position with a comprehensive background in business and administration, having completed her studies at the Handelsakademiet in Oslo and leadership programmes at INSEAD in France and at the London Business School in the UK. Previous to her position at OCA, Fjelde Høye served as the Chief Financial Officer at the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design in Oslo from 2006.

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