In this project, I will make Joy Forum my studio for a limited period of time. Reflecting how the space is constructed from leftover test materials, I will also be testing ideas in and around the exhibition space. Some days I will be working in the space or researching public realms around KMD's building in Møllendal. Other days my presence will be remote. When I first heard about KMD's new building, it fascinated me how the role of the studio space in the infrastructure of artmaking could apparently escape the planning regime of such an extensive, publically funded construction. Then I started thinking of how much of my own artistic work that actually takes place in other infrastructures than my small studio. My laptop is an indispensable yet sometimes challenging co-studio both for my writings and for collaborations, and as my work often enters into dialogue with public spaces, I spend time researching such spaces. I hope for visitors to join me into virtual and material, individual, collective and potential sites in which artistic work might happen – into the blurry area between creative processes and their mediated results.

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Hild Borchgrevink works as an artist, writer and music critic. Her MFA project Utgått utendørs/Expired Outdoors in the programme for Art and public spaces at Oslo National Academy of the Arts explored how the collection of books in a public library changes over time. In the fall of 2018, her sound installation Expired Kristiansand was part of an exhibition in Kristiansand kunsthall og bibliotek. The project Folkehav at the town hall square in Ålesund during the festival Høstscena in 2019 moved writing and reading out into urban space. Borchgrevink holds an MFA in art and public spaces from the Oslo National Academy of the Arts, an MA in musicology from UiO. She also studied creative writing at Skrivekunstakademiet i Hordaland and Kunstakademiet i Tromsø, and performative criticism at Stockholm Uniarts.