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Mutual support and artist-powered Infrastructures

Tuesday 25th of November 11:00-13:00 UKS - Unge Kunstneres Samfund (Keysers gate 1, 0165 Oslo) Capacity: 15 people

write us an email at info@verdensrommet.network to register.

Verdensrommet invites you to the launch of our Working Table Series hosted by UKS, where we will gather to share knowledge, exchange skills and create tools to better navigate different scenarios in our field. Our first topic is Art in Public Space and Public Commissions. This event will be followed by further gatherings –with different themes- throughout 2026.

https://www.uks.no/program/workshop-working-table-series-verdensrommet/

Jad El Khoury

Jad El Khoury’s work has been shown internationally. He was awarded the Arte Laguna Prize for Urban Art and Land Art in 2019. Currently based in Oslo, Norway. He graduated with a masters degree in Interior Architecture from the Lebanese University in 2016 and a masters degree in Art and Public Space from Oslo National Academy of the Arts in 2022. Jad El Khoury first started working with war traces found on buildings of Lebanon in 2016. “Being from the first post civil-war generation, transforming accidental monuments of bitterness in the city into choreographed installations dancing with the wind, was a necessity”; a poetic method of rebelling against religious sectarianism. “Burj El Hawa” (Tower of the Wind, 2018) was the highlight of Jad’s work on war traces, which he produced before moving to Oslo in 2020.

Angelle Khachik

Angelle Khachik (they/them) is a curator, performance artist, opera singer, sonic artist, and co-founder of Gestures & Nods - A Platform for Performance Art and Embodied Practices and co-founder of Skeive Stemmer (Queer Voices) Opera Collective. As a performance artist who uses voice as their main medium, Khachik is interested in embodied practices and collaborative horizontal processes.

Itzel Esquivel

Itzel Esquivel (they/them) is an organizer, researcher, and writer. Their practice is focus on performance and embodied practices from an intersectional and cuir/queer lens. They are co-founder of ‘Gestures & Nods. A Platform for Embodied Practices and Performance Art’. Esquivel holds a BA in Fine Arts from The National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and an MA in Curatorial Practice from the Art Academy in the University in Bergen (KMD) Esquivel has a long-standing and international institutional experience that started in 2015 and is currently working for the Publishing and Public Programs at OCA.

Drew Snyder

Drew Snyder is a curator associated with the art project for the new government quarter and new Viking Age Museum in Oslo. Drew Snyder holds a Ph.D. in art history, theory, and criticism from the Visual Arts Department at the University of California, San Diego. Snyder was previously the program director at OCA, and also has experience as an independent curator.