Natalie Hope O'Donnells educational background includes a BA in Modern History and Politics from the University of Oxford and an MA in Curating Contemporary Art from the Royal College of Art in London. She will defend her PhD, entitled Space as Curatorial Practice, at the Oslo Centre for Critical Architectural Studies (OCCAS) in 2015. Previous curatorial projects include the comprehensive retrospective of Norwegian artist Hariton Pushwagner at MK Gallery (2012) and the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen (2013); an exhibition of Norwegian film and video art of the 1990s at Atopia in Oslo (2013); and the 'First Supper Symposium' with Pussy Riot, Judith Butler and Rosi Braidotti in Oslo (2014). Hope O'Donnell chairs the Norwegian Association of Curators, and is the Curator/Project Leader for the Munch Museum's Off-site Projects (2016-2019). She retains an interest in curating as a spatial practice, feminist and queer performative practices, and the exhibition as an historical and cultural text.
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Sara Eliassen is an artist and filmmaker. Her work is a conceptual cinema-practice where she is investigating how aesthetics and narratives presented in moving images create collective memories, and how these influence the understanding of ourselves as subjects. Her work often plays with narrative expectations, using film, video, text, drawing, photography and installations in a critical practice. Eliassen’s work also involves projects in public space: the activist anti-ad project Not Worth It; making false TV-ads interfering with Norwegian public and commercial TV-channels. Eliassen holds an MFA in experimental filmmaking from San Francisco Art Institute and was a studio fellow at The Whitney Museum’s Independent Study Program in 2011. Her films Still Birds and A Blank Slate have played extensively at international film festivals, amongst them Venice Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam and Sundance.