Name: Panel: Arts Heritage and Living Archives
Start: 2026-03-20T16:00:00+01:00
End: 2026-03-20T17:30:00+01:00
Location: Kunsthøgskolen i Oslo

Welcome to the panel ‘Arts Heritage and Living Archives’ on Friday 20th of March at 16:00 at KHIO Library. The panel is based on the anthology ‘Arts, Heritage and performative Politics’ edited by Laima Nomeikaite (University of Agder) and Michael Haldrup (Roskilde University) recently published by Edward Elgar Publishing. Departing from the conventional notion of heritage as a static artefact, the book reveals how art heritage functions as a living political performance, exploring its manifestation in artistic practices.
The panel discussion will be with artists who also contributed to the book: archaeologist Alex Hale, writer Kirstine Reffstrup and performance artists Fernanda Branco, Luanda Carneiro and Liv Kristin Holmberg. Laima Nomeikaite will moderate the conversation.
The panelists will bring different perspectives on art heritage and living archives ranging from performance, poetry, prose, rural graffiti, photography, liturgy and the afro-diaspora body.
ABOUT THE PARTICIPANTS:
Fernanda Branco is a performance artist, gardener and poet from Brazil, based in Norway. Her work draws on the poetics of ecology. Branco holds a PhD in Artistic Research from the the Oslo National Academy of the Arts and a Master’s in Fine Arts in Performance from the Norwegian Theatre Academy.
Luanda Carneiro Jacoel (BR/NO) is a performance artist whose practice crosses the borders between dance, ritual, installation, and visual arts. She is a Doctoral candidate in Artistic Research in Film and Related Audiovisual Arts (FILMART) at the Norwegian Film School (INN) and the Norwegian Theater Academy (HiØ).
Alex Hale is a Learning Manager with Historic Environment Scotland and a Teaching Fellow at the Centre for Open Learning, University of Edinburgh. He has a PhD in archaeology and spent the last 25 years exploring and documenting archaeology in Scotland, from skateparks to stone circles.
Liv Kristin Holmberg is a performance artist and is a trained classical pianist and organist with an educational background from the Norwegian Academy of Music and the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki. She has an interdisciplinary approach bordering ritual theatre, Installation art and visual concerts, focusing on utopian philosophy and the relationship between art and faith.
Laima Nomeikaite is a physical improviser and Associate Professor at the Department of Global Development and Planning at the University of Agder, Norway. Her work spans the arts, heritage research and urban planning, with a particular focus on the intersection between heritage, arts, the city and space/place.
Kirstine Reffstrup is a writer who holds a master's in literary composition from the Art Academy Valand in Gothenburg and Skrivekunstakademiet in Bergen. She made her debut with the novel I, Unica in 2016 and her second novel, Iron Lung, was released in 2023. In the same year, she was awarded Stig Sæterbakken’s Memorial Prize for her body of work. Her novels have been translated into several languages.
The event is arranged by associated professor Laima Nomeikaite from the Department of Global Development and Planning, University of Agder in collaboration with Oslo National Academy of the Arts’ Library.