All photos: Kathrine Daniloff/ The Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology
Espen Rostrup Nakstad (b. 1975) is a doctor, lawyer, author and assistant director in the Directorate of Health.
Nakstad has a medical doctorate from the University of Oslo and is a specialist in internal medicine and lung diseases. Nakstad is also qualified as a lawyer and has previously taught management subjects and strategic planning for international organisations.
Previously, Nakstad worked as a senior physician and researcher at the Department of Emergency Medicine at Oslo University Hospital, where he led the CBRNE centre.
https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espen_Nakstad
Robert Steen (b.1961) has been an active Labor Party politician for many years. He was finance councilor in Oslo from 2015 and health councilor from 2019. In the corona era, we have heard and seen him in the media almost daily.
In our context, he is primarily Mats's parent. His story is one of the many told in the exhibition. Mats had a muscle disease and spent a lot of time alone in his room playing games.
The parents feared that he lived a lonely and restricted life. When he died, in 2014, their surprise was therefore great when condolences poured in. "In the online virtual world, Mats was a strong person and voice, someone who made a difference in so many people's lives, someone who made us laugh," wrote one of them, from the Netherlands. People from all over Europe turned up at the funeral. This made Robert Steen rethink what one defines as a good life, about friendship and about love without physical boundaries.
Ellen Lange (b. 1973) is the professional responsible for the exhibition Life and Death. She is a conservator at The Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology , at the part of the museum called the Medical Museum. Here she has worked on a number of exhibitions, events and other communication programs. She is concerned with the museum's role and opportunities as a social actor, and hopes that the exhibition will function as an arena for important discussion and joint knowledge production in the years to come.
Karen Dolva (b. 1990) is general manager and co-founder of No Isolation. The company develops what they call warm technology to contribute to less loneliness, increased inclusion and participation. She studied computer science and interaction design at the University of Oslo, before starting at StartupLab in Oslo. Together with colleagues, she soon started UX-Lab, a company that provided services within user experience.
In 2018, she received the European Commission's Women Innovator award, which aims to highlight female entrepreneurs under the age of 30. The following year, Forbes announced her as one of the world's top 50 women in tech.
Dolva in the exhibition: https://vimeo.com/586713070
Dr. Lucy Lyons draws in the spaces. In her doctoral theses, Delineating Disease, which she took at Sheffield Hallam University in 2009, she explored drawing as a method for better insight and communication of medical phenomena.
As a postdoctoral fellow at the Medical Museum at the University of Copenhagen, she has researched the experience of aging by drawing older people and objects from the medical collections. She has had many exhibitions in North America and Europe. She is responsible for the chapter on the mummy Maren in the exhibition catalogue.
https://www.lucylyons.org/
Bjørn Hatterud (b. 1977) is a writer, critic, musician and curator. He was born with functional impairments, is a class traveler and homosexual and in his work is concerned with the pairs of opposites high/low culture, conformity/resistance and normality/deviation. Hatterud is a regular columnist in Klassekampen and Biledkunst, is a deputy member of the Norwegian Council of Culture and current with the book "Mjøsa rundt med mor", which won him the Critics Award. He received Fritt Ord's prize in 2021.
Read more: https://www.aftenposten.no/amagasinet/i/VbWXEJ/bjoern-hatterud-det-var-en-overraskelse-at-noen-kunne-like-meg
Body cartography project
BodyCartograph creates dance in the meeting between body and mind to open up presence and presence. The performances take place in various scenes, both in nature, in urban, domestic and social spaces. The work is rooted in experimental, somatic and socially committed practice.
https://bodycartography.org/
Svein Størksen - (b. 1966) Norwegian illustrator and publisher and founder of Magikon publishing house. https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Phil Loring - editor of the exhibition catalogue LIFE&DEATH - A COMIC BOOK ANTHOLOGY. He is a curator at The Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology , mainly involved in themes within medicine, health and the history of science.
Ulver is an experimental Norwegian band that started as a black metal band in 1993. They have composed a work consisting of various human sounds for the Sansetunellen in the exhibition. During the opening, they will perform a short commissioned work (approx. 15 min.) twice."
The program
Welcome by Frode Meinich, Director of The Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology
About the exhibition by Ellen Lange, curator of the exhibition
The catalog LIFE & DEATH – a comic book anthology by artist Lucy Lyons, publishing manager Svein Størksen at Magikon forlag and curator and editor Phil Loring at The Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology
Panel discussion: How to create real inclusion?
- Robert Steen, health councilor in Oslo and father of Mats "Ibelin" Steen
- Karen Dolva, general manager and co-founder of the company No Isolation
- Bjørn Hatterud, writer, critic, musician, curator and winner of Fritt Ord's prize 2021
- The conversation is moderated by the curator of Life and Death, Ellen Lange
Official opening by Espen Rostrup Nakstad
See the exhibition and meet some of the people who made it
Commissioned works by Ulver are performed in Pusterommet
Come along and experience BodyCartography's Olive Bieringa and Otto Ramstad's performance through the exhibition rooms
Doors close at 9 p.m
