SALONG/panel talk: Porøse kunstmøter #6: On Collectivity and Critical Practice

Name: SALONG/panel talk: Porøse kunstmøter #6: On Collectivity and Critical Practice
Start: 2025-09-10T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Vidars gate 20, 0452 Oslo, Norge

Schedule

Wed, 10 Sep, 2025 at 06:00 pm

UTC+02:00

Location

Vidars gate 20, 0452 Oslo, Norge | Oslo, OS

Porøse kunstmøter is a workshop series, where critics and artists seek new vocabularies for engaging with the manifold aspects of the performing arts. In connection with PKM workshop #6, On collectivity and critical discourse, we will host an open panel talk where four performing arts critics from Singapore/Finland, Hungary, Norway and Romania/UK discuss strategies in developing collective discourse. How do we build modes of working and sharing across different ecologies, contexts and languages for the performing arts?
Diana Damian Martin & Anette Therese Pettersen are critics, scholars and parts of the performing arts field - and have collaborated since 2012. Pettersen is based in Oslo, while Damian Martin (RO) is based in London. Damian Martin and Pettersen have collaborated on several projects on criticism, as co-founders of the critical collective Writingshop (2012-current), Critics in Conversation (2016-current), and as part of many editorial and collaborative projects. In addition to Martin and Pettersen, performing art critics Lena Megyeri (Hungary) and Corrie Tan (Singapore) will participate in both workshop and panel talk where the four critics will discuss structures for art and criticism now.
Both the fields of criticism and the performing arts have changed a lot over the years. How do we think about change in relation to questions of scale when the world seems to be getting both smaller and bigger, as the amount of expressions, materials and methods for making and participating in the performing arts are expanding, whilst also in many ways are precarious? How do we share references and build vocabularies for making discussion and thinking about performing arts across borders? What roles does criticism play in this - and what future models can we make/imagine?

The four critic-scholars will represent and act as open archives of different experiences and perspectives in a discussion on the structures for art and criticism now and for the future.
The panel will take place in Vidars gate 20 in Oslo.
Supported by Norsk Kulturråd & Nartmanstiftelsen. The panel talk is part of Nartmanstiftelsen’s SALONG series.
About the participants:
Corrie Tan makes sense of art through intimate writing. A wayfarer between journalism and academia, her creative practice traverses criticism, dramaturgy, facilitation and research. She is currently the arts editor of Jom, an independent digital magazine, the director of the Asian Dramaturgs’ Network, and Postdoctoral Fellow in the Arts at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies. She holds a Ph.D. in theatre and performance studies jointly awarded by King’s College London and the National University of Singapore. Her thesis, The Intimate Critic, insists on criticism as a relational act, and is grounded in theory-doing and performance-making from the South-east Asian archipelago. For the past 15 years, she has written extensively about performance and culture for publications such as The Guardian, ArtsEquator, Exeunt Magazine and The Straits Times. www.corrie-tan.com
Lena Megyeri is a dance writer and cultural manager based in Budapest and Vienna. Between 2016-2022, she was the artistic director of Mozsár Műhely, a 100-seat theatre space in Budapest. Since then, she has managed and created several independent theatre- and dance-related projects, and has also started working as a literary translator. Lena has been writing about dance for 15 years: she has published in most major Hungarian dance and theatre magazines, as well as Dance Context and Springback Magazine.
Diana Damian Martin is an artist and researcher. Her work concerns alternative critical epistemologies and feminist modes of exchange, interventionist and political performance and the poltiics of migration, with a distinct focus on Eastern Europe. She co-hosts The Department of Feminist Conversations and Something Other, and co-runs the Serbo-Romanian critical cooperative Critical Interruptions, artistic research committee Generative Constraints and is a core member of Migrants in Culture. She is currently Senior Lecturer in Performance Arts at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, where she leads the BA Hons Experimental Arts and Performance course. Currently working on the monograph Nonconforming criticism: political practices and poetics at the borderlands of performance, which will be published in 2025 by Bloomsbury.
Anette Therese Pettersen is a theatre, performance and dance researcher and critic. She has been writing about theatre and dance since 2005, and writes for publications such as Morgenbladet, Norsk Shakespearetidsskrift and Scenekunst.no. Co-founder of projects on criticism, such as Performing Criticism Globally, Solitude & Assembly, Writingshop, Critics in Conversation and Dansekritikerrørsla (Dance critic movement).