Eliot Moleba and Deise Faria Nunes's work sheds light on how colonial legacies continue to shape bodies, territories, narratives, knowledge, heritage, memory, movement and belonging, while also exploring how artistic practices can challenge, unsettle and reimagine the structures and practices through which these legacies continue to be reproduced.
The presentations and discussion will be held in English, and Professor Camilla Eeg-Tverbakk from
the Department of Aesthetic Studies at OsloMet will serve as moderator.
Programme
- 13:00–14:00: Eliot Moleba and Deise Faria Nunes present their work
- 14:00–14:15: Break
- 14:15-15:00: Conversation moderated by Camilla Eeg Tverrbakk
Eliot Moleba and Deise Faria Nunes
Eliot Moleba is a theatre-maker, artistic researcher, and Associate Professor at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (HVL). In this seminar, he brings together his PhD research on the stories of Norwegians with immigration and multicultural backgrounds and how such stories might be inscribed into public memory, and The Border Game, a participatory work that traces the colonial making and postcolonial persistence of African borders and how they continue to shape the movement of Africans across the continent.
Deise Faria Nunes is a performance artist, researcher and teacher. Born in Brazil, she has more than 20 years of creative practice in Norway and beyond. Following paths opened by her PhD research "Estuaries", she brings together Black feminism, decolonial unearthings, and Afro-diasporic myth ritual poetics inspired by ancestral knowledges. Water encounters - the estuaries - appear as material and metaphor in works that cross disciplines, media, and geographies. Through what she calls Estuarine Art Practices, Deise's work converges references towards a fluid practice defying extractivist frameworks that operate on bodies, territories, and heritages.
