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Marcus Coates / Munir Fasheh / Harald Gaski
Lecture Program: 03.02 - 06.02.25
29.01.2025
Image Munir Fasheh
Bergen Assembly invites you to a series of lectures as part of our Cross Course program next week, 4-7 February.
On Monday 3 February, Marcus Coates, an artist and amateur naturalist based in London, will hold a Monday Lecture at The Art Academy (KMD), in which he will talk about the challenges and potential of exploring ways to relate to other species and how his artwork has come to question ideas of self. On Tuesday 4 February, Munir Fasheh, a learning practitioner based in Ramallah, will reflect on some concepts we often take for granted – from grades and the right to education, to poverty eradication and prayer. In his talk on the evening of the Sámi National Day, Thursday 6 February, Professor Harald Gaski from Sámi allaskuvla / Sámi University in Guovdageaidnu/ Kautokeino will give an introduction to Sámi aesthetics, seen from a Sámi and Indigenous point of view.
All Bergen Assembly events are free and open to everyone.
Mon 03. Feb – Marcus Coates: Us and Them – KMD Monday Lectures Program > (10:00 - 12:00) at The Academy of Art, Music & Design (KMD) - Knut Knaus Auditorium
As part of KMD Monday Lectures program, artist Marcus Coates will present the lecture, 'Us and Them'. Marcus will talk about the challenges and potential of exploring ways to relate to other species and how his artwork has come to question ideas of self. He will also speak about how these inquiries have led him to address the process of relating to the unknowable experiences of fellow humans.
Marcus Coates is an artist and amateur naturalist based in London. His work includes performances and installations recorded as video art, which are often ritual based with pragmatic outcomes as their aim. He often collaborates with others to create processes marked by empathy and trust, working with audiences, organisations, and institutions, as well as experts from various fields.
Tue 04. Feb – Munir Fasheh: You have seen the picture but missed the meaning > (18:00) at Bergen Assembly
On Tuesday 4 February Munir Fasheh will reflect on some concepts we often take for granted – from grades and the right to education, to poverty eradication and prayer. He begins by drawing a contrast between the mathematics he studied and taught at educational institutions and the mathematics his mother, a tailor, practiced in her daily life – an insight that challenged his own understanding of knowledge and learning.
Munir Fasheh is a learning practitioner based in Ramallah. He taught mathematics and physics at Birzeit University in the 1960s and 1970s, during which he realized that his illiterate mother was practicing maths that he could neither understand nor do. A lot of his writings were connected to her world. He feels that his story about her is his main gift to future generations. Fasheh founded the Tamer Institute for Community Education during the first Intifada as a centre for learning outside of institutional education in Palestine. After receiving his PhD in education from Harvard University in 1988, he founded the Arab Education Forum (AEF) at Harvard University's Center for Middle Eastern Studies in 1997 and directed it for ten years.
Gullat, guldalit: to hear, to listen, and to act accordingly > (18:00) at Bergen Assembly
In his talk on the evening of the Sámi National Day, professor Harald Gaski from Sámi allaskuvla / Sámi University in Guovdageaidnu/ Kautokeino will give an introduction to Sámi aesthetics, seen from a Sámi and Indigenous point of view. On the basis of Sámi concepts of recognizing the world around us he will suggest ways of interpreting Sámi and Indigenous art and literature.
Harald Gaski is a Professor in Sámi Literature at Sámi allaskuvla / Sámi University of Applied Sciences in Norway. He now lives in his original home community Deatnu (Tana) in North Norway, after more than 40 years in Tromsø at the university there. Gaski is the author and editor of several books on Sámi literature and culture. Particularly well-known are his interpretations of works by Nils-Aslak Valkeapää, who was awarded the 1991 Nordic Council Literature Prize.
Organised together with Bergen School of Architecture, the Cross Course program is a platform to look into new methodologies, knowledges and forms of being and creating together.
You can read more about the Bergen Assembly + BAS cross course program here.
Bergen Assembly 2025 is convened by Bergen School of Architecture (BAS), writer and visual culture researcher Adania Shibli and artist and researcher Ravi Agarwal.
Save the dates: 11.09. - 09.11.2025
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