Hvileåret: Mixtape is an art work by artist Amber Ablett, looking at the ways we use sound to support and affirm our identities as marginalised people.
In June 2025, you are invited to join Amber or one of her invited collaborators, Touki and Nina Britta Eriksson, for a workshop where we collectively explore the ways that sound can be- and already is- part of our liberation practices and listen together. These workshops take place in the Sami Listening Hut, Jiennagoahti, in the Fløyen mountains. Parts of these workshops will be recorded and shared as a sound installation at Jiennagoahti, opening on 1st August 2025.
Saturday 7th June: For BIPOC rest hosted by Touki, Black arts iniative.
Saturday 14th June: Rest for queer and trans people hosted by Nina Eriksson, artist.
Saturday 21st June: Rest from capitalism and grind culture hosted by Amber Ablett, artist.*
Saturday 28th June: Rest for those living with marginalised identities (open group) hosted by Amber Ablett, artist.
Workshops begin at kl12.00 and finish at kl15.00 and include refreshments.
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Hvileåret: Mixtape is part of a wider project called Hvileåret: rest, growth and activism, that looks to the plant and animal kingdom and natural cycles of growth to imagine more sustainable and adaptable activist and liberation practices. When we look to nature, we can see that rest is an active stage of growth, just as animals hibernate in winter, how can we view rest as a point of reflection, rejuvination and expansion?
Each workshop has a different theme and format, developed by the invited hosts so that we can be together in safety with people who share similar experiences or questions.
Touki are Rakeb Erana, Safia Hashi, Elssa Gebre, Aisha Froeiland and Yasmin Kenediid Jama, an independent organisation based in Bergen, that work to engage more young minorities, especially Black youths in the arts and politics. The organisation is a platform that highlights Black voices in the arts and works for an anti-capitalist, intersectional feminist, anti-racism, queer-positive, and decolonized world. The goal of Touki is to establish a non-restrictive space for Black and POC artists, freed from the white gaze.
Nina Eriksson (1997, SE) is a dyke artist and writer based in Bergen. In her work, she explores the multiplicity of queerness and the liberatory potential of making new language for the queer, the erotic, and the body in which they collide. The work is recurringly concerned with failure as a queer means of liberation. Eriksson approaches failure to perform the expected or normative as a possibility, an opening for something else entirely. She makes sculpture work, text work and performances that warp and queer everyday concepts and objects - most recently keys (in the master project an old dyke in the flesh who is an emblem for the rest) and job interviews (in the performance butch renaissance tear well: GAY JOBS). In 2025, she has run a writing workshop on poetic language for the body and a keychain workshop at Hordaland Kunstsenter on the occasion of the exhibition Skakke folkedrakter - Ikkje en draktutstilling.
Amber Ablett (she/hun) is an artist and writer based in Vestlandet, Norway. Using performance, text, sound and re-enactment, her work looks at the importance of belonging to how we be together, with a focus on how our society shapes, reflects, controls and limits our multifaceted identities. Ablett uses her own position, as a Black woman of Irish, Trinidadian and British heritage living in Norway, as a starting point to create a space for questioning, communality and critical thinking; she is interested in how we learn about ourselves through learning about other people and the conflict between our internal and percieved sense of home.
* Time kl 1000 - 1300 so those who want to can join Bergen Pride Parade afterwards.