TALKS PROGRAM 2018
Each year, an extensive talks program is organized featuring inspirational testimonials from industry leaders, round table discussions creating dynamic dialogues and shedding light on conflicting points of view.
FRIDAY 12 OCTOBER
15:00-15:40 ART WITH AN AGENDA // BORDER
Meet this year’s BORDER artists, the new frontiers in fashion art.
Extraweg’s Oliver Latta is known for his provocative animation films. Landing the last Valentino campaign #CandyStudFactory through his growing Insta following. Sharna Osborne hash a background in Fine Ar., Osborne's work explores the meeting ground between moving image, fashion and art in campaigns and editorials for Hermes and IT Vogue. Maria Pasenau captures her generation through a rough lense. Her work has been exhibited at The National Museum and The Teen magazine Recens. Nate Walton “An intimate study of life and sex in LA” has been shut down by Instagram 3 times because of the nudity in his photographs. What is their agenda?
EXTRAWEG, SHARNA OSBORNE, NATE WALTON
in conversation with JØRN MORTENSEN, Headmaster Oslo National Academy Of The Arts
15:55-16:25 THE COMMERCIAL IN ART
Starting his carrier with an editorial for US W Magazine Photographer and film maker Dusan Reljin’s shot to fame overnight. He has worked in the crossing point of fashion and art having works in the art collections of the Met and Moma museums in NYC as well as editorials for Vogue, W Magazine and French Numero. These days he is working closely with artist Marina Abramovic. At this year’s Collective Dusan is exhibiting his latest collaboration with supermodel and icon Kate Moss.
DUSAN RELJIN in conversation with BODIL FUHR, journalist. http://www.bodilfuhr.no
16:30-17:00 A-HA THROUGH THE LENSE
Just Loomis is a fine art photographer known for his portraiture and fashion photography. He started his road of photography assisting the late Helmut Newton. His work has been published in Harper's Bazaar, British Vogue, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, and The New York Times Magazine. The Norwegian pop group A-ha has collaborated with Loomis since their debut in the 80’s “Take On Me” until today. Loomis is exhibiting a personal series of portraits of lead singer Morten Harket at the festival.
JUST LOOMIS in conversation with TORD RØNNING KROGTOFT, Market Director National Museum Of Art
SATURDAY 13 OCTOBER
14:30-15:00 ARE WE ALL ARTISTS?
We are living in a time where everyone has a camera phone. We create our own road to stardom through SoMe. Bad publicity is good publicity and storytelling is the key. Why did they make it to the top? How did they make it to the top? In which way does SoMe let us side step the traditional road?
JENNIFER TZAR, CELINE AAGAARD, DANILO LAURIA AND YAEL QUINT in conversation with SYNNE SKJULSTAD, Associate Professor And Researcher Westerdals Høyskolen Kristiania.
15:15-15:45 THE GREATER PURPOSE
They are all emerging artists with a lot on their mind. Berglind Rögnvaldsdóttir is the hard core feminist telling stories about women, for women. Guttestreker is an art-duo with a political and philosophical agenda, while Sara Abraham wants to make art that has a greater purpose.
BERGLIND RÖGNVALDSDÓTTIR, GUTTESTREKER, SARA ABRAHAM, in conversation with GERD-ELISE MØRLAND, Director Of Learning The Munch Museum
15:50-16:20 FASHION OFFBEAT // EPSON DESIGN TALK
At the FW 2018 London Fashion Week Queen Elizabeth II presented Richard Quinn with the inaugural Queen Elizabeth II Award for British Design. Behind the talented designer stands Epson, known for their world leading innovation in print.
In a collaboration with Collective, Epson has given Norwegian designers, Edda Gimnes (Lady Gaga, Beyonce and Gigi Hadid all loves her design) and Kit Wan (fashion/multimedia designer) a grant that covers fabric and print for their FW2019 collections as well as their exhibit at the Collective. This TALK is about technology and how it gives possibilities that that can change the future of fashion design. Technology enables designers to create their design, patterns and avatar models on their own laptop, and with the push of a button manufacturing their collection without the traditional patternmaker and studio model. Cutting costs and time. How is this changing the future for emerging fashion designers today? What is the future for emerging designers?
EDDA GIMNES, KIT WAN, HEATHER KENDLE, MARKET DEVELOPMENT MANAGER- EPSON EUROPE in conversation with KINE B. HARTZ, Editor-In-Chief Costume
16:25-16:55 THE VISION // THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF ART
This is the TALK you don’t want to miss! We sit down with Karin Hindsbo, the director of THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF ART in Norway.
In a time were museums are struggling to change in accordance with time and are communicating to rather than with their audiences, what is the master plan to lead the new National Museum into the future? How will The National Museum engage it’s audience through programs and exhibitions. What is going to be the biggest change after the opening of the new museum? What’s the driver behind The National Museum’s social media work? How will The National Museum contribute to a lively dialogue in a constantly changing landscape?
KARIN HINDSBO, DIRECTOR AT THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF ART in conversation with TUVA TRONDSDATTER TRØNSDAL, Co- Founder Galleri Golsa