Michelle Teran is 2/4 contributors to the seminar Uvissas tilstand/Flying Blind. Teran (CA/DE) is an educator, artist, and researcher with a focus on ecologies of care, collective grief, feminist, decolonial, eco-social, and critical pedagogies. Among other things, she has transformed her garden allotment plot into an art and ecology project, where she grows food, experiments with care-informed practices and methods, and hosts various learning activities. 

Flying Blind is a multifaceted project that facilitated conversations, seminars, guided tours in the landscape, artistic production and a public event. The artists were invited to develop new performative works inspired and informed by discussions with invited guests from specific fields and the landscape. Thematically, Flying Blind explores whether there are particular parts of matter; outstanding places that affect us through what we sense. Let us call these places “privileged points”. If this is true, what implications can such “privileged points” in the landscape have for the development of social communities? Could we envision such collective experiences – through investigating processes, with a group of artists, or together with the audience – as something to open up new ways of seeing our societies, from the local to a planetary level?

The festival concept Between Sky & Sea is initiated by Performance Art Bergen and takes place every third year on various Norwegian islands. The festival celebrates twenty years in 2025.

Nettside / Webpage:
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https://nordoyane.no/2025/08/seminar-mellom-himmel-hav-vii-uvissas-tilstand-seminar-between-sky-sea-vii-flying-blind/

Festivalen er støtta av / The festival is kindly supported by: Kulturrådet, Norske Billedkunstnere, Nordisk kulturkontakt, Møre og Romsdal fylkeskommune
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