Program (tentative)
| Monday 6 October 2025 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 10:00-12:00 | Welcome, tour of RITMO, and planning of the week | RITMO |
| 13:15-15:00 | Opening lecture and panel discussion: Shabari Rao in dialogue with Kari Anne Bjerkestrand, Victoria Johnson, and Alexander Refsum Jensenius | ZEB |
| Tuesday 7 October 2025 | ||
| 09:00-12:00 |
Reflections on previous standstill projects:
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RITMO v217 |
| 13:00-16:00 | Standstill sessions in the lab | RITMO fourMs Lab |
| Wednesday 8 October 2025 | ||
| 09:00-11:00 | Lab session | RITMO fourMs Lab |
| 12:15-13:00 | Food & Paper | RITMO kitchen |
| Thursday 9 October 2025 | ||
| 09:00-12:00 | Preparing for performance | RITMO fourMs Lab |
| 16:00-19:00 | Performance | TBD |
| Friday 10 October 2025 | ||
| 10:00-12:00 | Final discussion | RITMO v217 |
Bios
Shabari Rao is an artist and educator from Bangalore, India. Her work engages with interdisciplinary research in embodiment. As an artist, she performs, directs, curates, teaches, and writes. Over the last 20 years, her work has been supported and presented through conferences, festivals, residencies, and publications in cities as diverse as Shanghai, New York, Vienna, Cape Town, and Melbourne, to name a few. Shabari has held several academic positions. Currently, she designs and delivers interdisciplinary courses in higher education settings, most recently at BITS School of Law and the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. Preceding this, she was a founding faculty member at RV University, where she headed the Performing Arts program in the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences. She is completing her PhD at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, where her work focuses on Embodied Pedagogy in Mathematics Teaching. She has presented her doctoral research at international STEM and Mathematics Education conferences, where her contributions have been well-received.
Victoria Johnson is a distinguished violinist recognized for integrating the acoustic and electric violin with electronics and video. She studied violin in Oslo, Vienna, and London and completed the artistic research project "Electric Violin in Digital Space" at the Norwegian Academy of Music. Her solo performances have been featured at notable festivals, including the Ultima Festival in Oslo, the London Ear Festival, and the Bergen International Festival. In 2012, she released her debut solo CD, "Suspended Beginnings," in collaboration with composer Diemo Schwarz. She teaches at the Barratt Due Institute of Music in Oslo and the Department of Musicology at the University of Oslo and is deeply engaged in contemporary and interdisciplinary music projects.
Kari Anne Bjerkestrand is a movement director, choreographer, director’s assistant, and text consultant for stage productions. Her work is based on extended concepts of movement. The methods connect to larger themes, such as creativity, artistry, self-insight, leadership, and communication skills. They also encourage personal and spiritual growth. She has been passionate about movement since childhood, starting ballet at 8. She received her education at the Ballet Academy in Oslo and the School for New Dance Development in Amsterdam. She is also a qualified tai chi kineo-teacher who has been giving sessions for over 20 years. Her book Bedre flyt focuses on the principles of physical and emotional flow between body and mind.