Exactly 5 years after Under the Park took place at Valkyrie plass metro station in Oslo – we launch the project’s reader: NIGHT UNDER THE PARK – book and film document.
PODIUM, OCTOBER 16:
18:00: Bar by JUANITA
19:30: KRISTA PAPISTA
21:00: DAHIR HUSSEIN (GLOBALDRAMA)
PODIUM OCTOBER 18:
13:00: JAN VERWOERT: Updates on Apocalypse (talk)
14:00: Coq au vin by ALVA ELIASSEN
15:00: ADAM KHALIL, conversation and screening: Give it Back: Crimes Against Reality by NEW RED ORDER
All weekend: Night Under the Park – film document, books, and editors Gustav Elgin & Sara Eliassen present.
The reader extends Under the Park, a site-specific project that invited artists, thinkers, and audiences into a nightly séance of invocations. Held while train traffic was suspended from 00:30 to 04:00 on October 16, 2021, Valkyrie plass, a metro station in Oslo active from 1928 to 1985, was transformed into a temporary autonomous zone through a collective, orchestrated event. Awakening the transient, the underground site was used to explore screen materials and actsthat worked to counter dominant histories in order to build futures not founded upon dysfunctional pasts. The night included contributions by EMMA WOLUKAU-WANAMBWA, JAN VERWOERT, DAHIR HUSSEIN (GLOBALDRAMA), LESIA VASYLCHENKO / NIKHIL VETTUKATTIL, IMRGARD EMMELHAINZ, KESIA HALVORSRUD / VALBORG FRØYSNES, ADAM KHALIL / NEW RED ORDER, and COLECTIVO LOS INGRÁVIDOS.
The project by Sara Eliassen, was developed and realised in collaboration with Fotogalleriet and its then artistic director Antonio Cataldo; Bo Krister Wallström, artist, and curator at Public Art Norway; Kristine Jærn Pilgaard, independent curator; Jan Verwoert, writer; Magnus Holmen, artist and project coordinator.
PODIUM launch, documentation space & weekend-happening: funded by NBK & KORO.