Artistic encounters
in war and violent conflict
28 February 2023
Back to overview

INSPIRE Seminar Series: Moving Through War // Creating Art Away from Home

Welcome to our next INSPIRE Seminar taking place on Tuesday 28 February, 17:00 – 18:30 with choreographer Hooman Sharifi. This seminar will take place physically at PRIO, Hausmanns gate 3, Oslo and a light meal will be served.

Note: this seminar will not be hybrid – as per the artist’s request. We encourage all that are in Oslo to come in person, and we will share the recording of the seminar at a later date for those not able to join us.

When you have to move/flee from what feels like home, how does your art move with you? What happens to your creative methods, your approach? What becomes out of reach, and what might become possible? Creative practices engage the imagination, poetics, innovation, critical thinking, and powers of expression – how are those affected by movement away from a home transformed by violent conflict and oppression?

​Choreographer Hooman Sharifi will share his reflections on these themes and initiate an informal conversation with the audience – over food. His expressions through dance have explored the embodied nature of war and oppression and of being 'a constant refugee', as Hooman phrases it. Coming from contexts of oppression and war to Norway as a teenager, he has faced the contrast of his 'body of war' with making art in a peaceful contextwhere the audience's everyday life is far removed from what is expressed on stage. Hooman sees performance as bringing people together and in the best case offering a space that allows the audience to see things from a different angle.

Co-director of PRIO's Centre on Culture and Violent Conflict Cindy Horst will join him in exploring these themes collectively with the participants of this seminar.