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Våg is a new intermedial arts studio, for artistic research, interdisciplinary collaboration and bold experimentation.
Based in Oslo, with strings to sub-Arctic Norway - it collaborates with researchers and artists across borders.


 
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-> Project 1: NYKSUND RELOADED - 2022 -> ongoing
Artistic research project re-activating a 1980s eco-topia through media art and materials of the archive. Led by Elisabeth Brun & Katja Pratschke, and developed with the NODES Collective.

The project revisits the legacy of the International Nyksund Project (1984–92), a West Berlin–initiated socio-pedagogical and environmental experiment in a former fishing village in Northern Norway. Through media art, artistic research and the reworking of archival materials, Nyksund Reloaded engages with the INP’s lasting relevance in light of today’s political and ecological crises.

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-> ->  Research           -> Project 2: MOVING IMAGE MOVING EARTH (MIME), pilot phase starting 2026

A transdisciplinary arts-based research project bringing together geology, aesthetics, local knowledge and moving image practices to examine how understandings of deep time are mediated, structured and formed.

Core collaborators:
Dept. of Geosciences, University of Oslo,
Dept. of Art History, Aesthetics & Culture and Museology & CRAPCC - Centre for Research on Artistic Practice under Contemporary Conditions, Aarhus University,
Westerdals Dept. of Film and Media, Kristiania University College.

Pilot phase 2026-27:

Living Lab — Sub-project I (2026)

A site-sensitive workshop developing and testing forms of co-creation, knowledge structure and exchange. Developed in collaboration with Culturality and Museum Nord (Norway),

(Further partners and sub-projects to be announced.)

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-> Project 3: UNGDOMSBYEN / ANOTHER WORLD (working title)
 Feature-length hybrid documentary (in development. t.b.a).


On a slow journey north, a new generation encounters the traces of an early experiment in community; - and begins to ask what kind of world is still possible.

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På en langsom reise nordover møter en ny generasjon restene av et glemt samfunnseksperiment, som får dem til å stille spørsmål ved hvilken verden som fortsatt er mulig.


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The activity of Våg is developed through long-term collaborations between artists, researchers and curators working across film, media art, aesthetics media theory, geology and critical spatial practice.

Founder / Artistic Director:
Elisabeth Brun (PhD) (NO) - filmmaker, media artist and theorist/researcher.

Core collaborators:
Katja Pratschke / Gusztáv Hámos (DE) - film and media artists, artistic researchers
Maja Bak Herrie (DK) - assistant professor; aesthetics, art history, media theory
Vanina Saracino - freelance curator, lecturer and writer
Ivar Midtkandal (NO) - professor; geology
Ivar Kjellmo (NO) - associate professor; VR / 3D-design
Nicole Bitsch Pedersen (DK) - sound artist, composer.
Géza Kulscár, researcher, writer (HU)

Associated / Partners:
Concrete Narrative Society e.V, Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik - ZK/U, ROM for kunst og arkitektur, Paredes Mejas / ConstructLab Portugal, Centre for Research on Artistic Practice under Contemporary Conditions CRAPCC - Aarhus University, Nordland Academy for Arts and Sciences, Dept. of Geosciences - University of Oslo, Kultursamarbeidet Vesterålen, Klasse Klima Udk, SOAP - Some Online Architecture Practice, Urbanum.
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What we need to acknowledge is that perceptual and pictorial shapes are not only translations of thought products, but the very flesh and blood of thinking itself...

..and that an unbroken range of visual interpretation leads from the humble gestures of daily communications to the statements of great art
                                                        Rudolf Arnheim

-> Våg News (recent and Upcoming)
December 2025 - Fritt Ord awards development funding to the hybrid feature documentary Ungdomsbyen /Another World (working title).

November 2025 - Museum Nord and the EU Culturality Project enter into a collaboration with MIME – Moving Image Moving Earth. A Living Lab / workshop on arts-based and place-sensitive knowledge strategies and infrastructure is planned for June 2026. Location, focus, and dates to be announced.

April 2025 - Våg Productions founded.