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Amalia Fonfara (Nanortalik, 1985)
Education:
2013-2015 : Master of Fine Art, Trondheim Academy of Fine Art, NTNU, NO.
2013-2014 : Experts in Team, Metamorf, TEKS, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NO
2013-2015 : Counselor and therapist in holistic healing, Trondheim School of Healing and Therapy, NO.
2010-2013 : Bachelor of Fine Art, Trondheim Academy of Fine Art, NTNU. NO.
2010-2011 : Social-anthropology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NO
2008-2008: Sociology, AAU, Aalborg University, DK.
Founder of:
2015, AMALIA FONFARA – Visual artist and Shamanic Practitioner, NO.
2018, Invisivledrum Art Platform, NO.
Solo exhibitions and independent performances:
2021, Megin, audiovisual performance in collab. w. Ambient Light, Pallas Kat, and Mina Paasche, Orkdal
Industrimuseum Gammel Gruva, Løkkens verk, Orkdal, NO.
2021, The Witch Trials collab. w. Invisibledrum, Kurant Visningsrum, Tromsø, NO.
2021, The Witch Trials collab. w. Invisibledrum, Steilneset Memorial, Vardø, NO.
2019, Småfolket i Hagen - The Little People In the Garden, in collab. w Hannah Mjølsnes, Haruka Fukao, Ina
Devik and Saewon Oh, Arboretet and Botanical garden, Milde, Bergen, NO.
2019, Stories From South Greenland - Nanortalikhistorier, Nanortalik, GL.
2019, Silent Noon - (Plantesamtaler - Kørvel) performance/installation in collab. w. Hannah Mjølsnes,
Trondheim, NO.
2018, Embodied Landscapes - Erfarte Landskab, Heimdal Kunstforening, Lundemobakken, Heimdal, NO.
2017, Sensations of Places, Kunstraum K70, Lübeck, D.
2016, If nothing becomes a part of everything: Island of the Apprentices in collab. w. Veronica Riget Alsing, Q,
Copenhagen, DK.
Selected group exhibitions:
2023, OPERA FRØ, collab. w. LYDHØR, Ringve Botanical Garden & Museum, Trondheim, NO
2022, Med kroppen i byen, in collab. with Arctic Street Food, Aalborg, DK.
2021, Summoning the 8 pointed star, Symposium of Spiritual Technologies - Ethnobotany within witch trials
and the capitalization of health, Kunsthall Trondheim, NO.
2021, Project Anywhere Global Exhibition - Invisibledrum, online Biennial Anywhere and Elsewhere, Parsons
Fine Art Institute, New York City, USA.
2021, Constellation Ritual #1, Here & Now: seeing through my eyes, LOOK AT ME / LOOK THROUGH ME,
Tempe#6, Trondheim, NO
2020, Audiovisuelle performance by Trondheim Fjord, Trondheim Open Art Festival, Nyhavna, Trondheim, NO.
2020, Nordatlantiske Drømme, Hanstholm Artspace, Hanstholm, DK.
2020, Forflytninger, KUNSTEN, Aalborg Museum of Modern Art & Det Grønlandske Hus, Aalborg, DK.
2020, LKT tar over, Babel Artspace, Trondheim, NO.
2020, Healing Ceremony, Symposium of Spiritual Technologies within Creative Practices, Rosendal Theater,
Trondheim, NO.
2020, OPERA FRØ, collab. w. Hannah Mjølsnes, Kongsgården, Trondheim, NO
2020, FRØ, collab. w. Hannah Mjølsnes and Lise Hovik - LYDHØR, Kongsgården, Trondheim, NO.
2019, Trøndelagsutstillingen 2019, Trondheim Center for Contemporary art, Trondheim, NO.
2019, Sommerutstillingen, Babel Artspace, Trondheim, NO.
2019, Offline-Body vs. Tech : Silent Noon, in collab. w. Hannah Mjølsnes, Kunsthall Trondheim, NO.
2018, NODES: Avant Fini : A Healing Ceremony, in collab. w. Helle Siljeholm and others (NO),
Avant Garden Theater, Trondheim, NO.
2018, Qooqu - Lillefugl (Little Bird), Kalaallit Illuutaat/ Det Grønlandske Hus, København, DK.
2018, TING TAR TID : Qooqu-Little Bird, Curated by Tea Záchová, Galerie Sam83, Prague, CZ.
2018, Hendelser på Nyhavna : (2,2) 0 Sonic architecture of the inner space - DORA, in collab. w. Øystein K.
Fjeldbo, Nazare Soares, Kulturbunker Dora, Trondheim, NO.
2018, Women in Art : Documentations of Embodied Experiences, Galleri Kanalen, Trondheim, NO.
2017, Qooqu - Lillefugl (Little Bird), 59. Nordic Film Days Lübeck, Lybeck Filmfestival, Lübeck, D.
2017, Microbites of Innovation : (2,2) 0. Sonic architecture of the inner space, ACM Creativity and Cognition,
ArtScience Museum, Marina Bay Sands, SIN.
2017, Technoshamanism - Rethinking ancestrality and technology, Dome of Visions, Aarhus, DK.
2017, Sensations of Places, Healingens Hus, Trondheim, NO.
2017, (2,2) 0. Sonic architecture of the inner space, Trondheim Art Museum Gråmølna & LKV, Trondheim. NO.
2015, MFA Exhibition 2015 : The Invisible (in)Existence, Gråmøllna, Trondheim Art Museum, Trondheim, NO.
2015, Botanical Evidences of Movement, Migration and Commerce, Nuovo Cinema Palazzo, Rome, I.
2015, It's about Time, curated by Veronika Radulovic, Galleri KIT, Trondheim, NO.
2013, Spoken Words, Galleri KIT, Trondheim, NO.
2013, Bachelor 2013, Galleri KIT Trondheim, NO:
2012, Sommer Skulptur, Søby, Ærø, DK
2012, Vor øya , Gallery KIT, Trondheim, NO
2012, Til kærlighedens pris, Mini Opera, in collab. w. Regina Maria Müller, Dokk Huset, Trondheim, NO.
2011, Lecture, Vegina dentata, Traces, Moving: Traces, Performance, Gallery KIT, Trondheim, NO.
2010, Sommer Skulptur, Søby, Ærø, DK
Curation:
2023, 3rd Symposium of Spiritual Technologies within Creative Practices, Invisibledrum Art Platform,
at Rosendal Theater, Trondheim, NO.
2022, DET TREDJE STED, in collab w Signe M. Christensen and The Greenlandic House, at KUNSTEN,
Aalborg Museum of Modern Art, Aalborg, DK.
2021, 2nd Symposium of Spiritual Technologies - Ethnobotany within witch trials and the
capitalization of health, Invisibledrum Art Platform, at Kunsthall Trondheim, NO.
2020, 1st Symposium of Spiritual Technologies within Creative Practices, Invisibledrum Art
Platform, at Rosendal Theater, Trondheim, NO.
Symposium/Seminar:
2021, Mellem Sans og Samling, University College of Northern Denmark (UCN), DK.
2021, Project Anywhere Global Exhibition - Invisibledrum, Biennial conference Anywhere and Elsewhere,
Parsons Fine Art Institute, New York City, USA.
2020, Art and Technology, Aalborg University, Denmark.
2018, TERRAPY - for planetary healing, Laboratory of Aesthetics and Ecology, Møn, DK.
2017, Technoshamanism - Rethinking ancestrality and technology, Dome of Visions, Århus, DK.
2017, Contemporary shamanism, Healingens Hus, Trondheim, NO.
2016, Ritual practice and art, Healingens Hus, Trondheim, NO
Residencies:
2021, Artist in Residence, Vadsø, NO.
2016-2017, Scandinavian Center of Shamanic Studies, 1-year shamanic healing and mentoring prg. Âsbacka, SE
2016, Scandinavian Center of Shamanic Studies, Spiritual Ecology, Tokalynga Theater Akademi, Ätran, SE.
2015, Istituto Svizzero di Roma, History's Hidden in Plain Sight, Studio Roma, Roma, I.
Teaching:
2023, Trå Inn i Sirkelen - Shamanic Practice An Introduction, Trondheim Taiji Senter, Trondheim, NO.
2022-2023, Trå Inn i Sirkelen - Shamanic practice and healing, Trondheim Taiji Senter, Trondheim, NO.
2021 November, Trå Inn i Sirkelen - Autumn, Shamanic practice and nordic animism, Indre Fosen, NO.
2021 September, Trå Inn i Sirkelen - Autumn, Shamanic practice and nordic animism, Indre Fosen, NO.
2020- , Trondheim Kulturskole, Kunstpedagog, Trondheim Kommune, NO.
2020-2021, Trå Inn i Sirkelen, Shamanic practice and nordic animism, Trondheim, NO.
2020, Shamanic Practice An Introduction, Healingens Hus, Trondheim, NO.
2019, Shamanism and Inuit religion, Qaqortoq High School, Qaqortoq, GL.
2019, Shamanism and Healing an introduction, Qaava, Qaqortoq, GL.
2019, Wonderland, DKS in collab. w. Line Sander, Kunsthall Trondheim, NO.
2019, In Ceremony With Nature, Healingens Hus, Trondheim, NO.
2019, Shamanic Practice An Introduction, Healingens Hus, Trondheim, NO.
2019, Shamanism and Healing, Healingens Hus, Trondheim, NO
2018, Shamanic Practice An Introduction, Healingens Hus, Trondheim, NO
2017, If I was an Animal, DKS, Kunsthall Trondheim, Trondheim, NO
2017, Shamanic Practice Spring, Healingens Hus, Trondheim, NO
2016, Shamanic Practice Autumn, Healingens Hus, Trondheim, NO
2016- , Mediator at Kunsthall Trondheim, Trondheim, NO
Music publications:
2021, Henter Deg Hjem Feat Ambient Light , 3.42 min, 2021 Sommerskuta minutt for minutt NRK TV
2021, Animus Feat Ambient Light , 3.35 min, 2021 Sommerskuta minutt for minutt, NRK TV
Publications as an author:
2023, Meetings with plants and other creatures (working title) The witch Trails - Invisibledrum, SMØRpress,
Trondheim, NO.
2021, (2,2) O Sonic Architecture of the Inner Space. Anywhere iv. Project Anywhere publication. Melbourne
University. Print 2021.
2017, “( 2,2 ) 0” C&C '17: Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Creativity and Cognition, Print,
2017.
Publications as author:
2020 Invisibledrum Art Platform, PROJECT ANYWHERE, online platform.
2017 “ ( 2,2 ) 0” C&C '17: Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Creativity and Cognition, Print,
Bibliography:
2021, Østhavet, Vardø Newspaper. Kunstnere tar tak i forsvunnen plantekunnskap, Published 27. 06. 2021, online.
2021, Artscene Trondheim, Hekser i Vinden, Published. 03.05.2021, online.
2020, MEDIUM - helse og livsstilsmagasinet, Nordlig urkraft og sjelens røtter, Published May 2021, Print.
2020, Art and Education, online magazine, Published: February 18, 2020
2018, Heimdalsbladet, pp.36 Kultur, Published on Oct 31, 2018
2018, Helseverden online publication, Helseverden.no, The Female Shaman, by Marthe Iren Wilgaard, Published: 07.02.2018
2017, LN Online, Lübecker Nachrichten, Dänin aus Norwegen auf Spurensuche in Deutschland by Dorothea Kurz-Kohnert,
Published, Thursday, 02.11.2017 18:10
2015, UA - Universitetsavisa, Overgrep, sjamanisme og transseksualitet, by Kristoffer Furberg, Published: 12.06.15 17:00
2015, Kunstkritikken, AVGANG Kroppsåpninger by Stian Gabrielsen. Published 12.06.2015.
Grants, prices, and scholarships:
2022, Trondheim Kommune, project funding, NO
2022, NBK, project funding, NO.
2022, Sparebank 1, Trondheim, NO.
2022, OCA, Project Funding for international projects, NO.
2022, NBK, BKV, working stipend, NO.
2021, Sparebank 1, Trondheim, NO.
2021, Orkdal Kommune, Project funding, NO
2021, Strakstiltak, Trondheim Kommune, NO.
2021, NBK, project funding, NO.
2021, Statens Kunstfond Denmark, Knowledge, dialog and debate, DK.
2021, Statens Kunstfond Denmark, Development grant for new works, DK.
2021, Arts Council Norway, project funding, NO.
2021, Fritt Ord, project funding, NO.
2021, NBK, BKV working stipend, NO.
2021, Nordisk Kulturfond, DK.
2021, Trondheim Fylkeskommune, NO
2021, Trondheim Kommune, project funding, NO
2020, Art Council Norway - Found for Sound and Image, NO
2020, NBK, project funding, NO.
2020, The Norwegian Embassy in Denmark, DK.
2020, Arts Council Norway, project funding, NO.
2020, Nordic Culture Point, SE/FI
2020, Statens Kunstfond Denmark, Development grant for new works, DK.
2020, OCA, Project Funding for international projects, NO.
2020, NBK working stipend, NO.
2019, Project funding, Nordisk Kulturfond, DK.
2019, The Debutant Price, Trøndelagsutstillingen 2019, Trondheim, NO.
2019, Project funding, Trondheim Kommune, NO.
2018, Strakstiltak, Trondheim Kommune, NO.
2018, Project funding, Trondheim Kommune, NO.
2018, Project funding, Norske Bildende Kunstnere - Vederlagsfondet, NO.
2017, Working Grant, Possehl Stiftung, Lübeck, GE.
2017, SIGCHI Development Grant. Creativity & Cognition. Art Track. National University of Singapore, SIN.
2017, Travel Grant. FFUK Fund for Performing Artists, NO.
2017, Research Grant. KIT, Faculty of Architecture & Design, NTNU, NO
2017, Diversestipend. Kulturrådet. Art Council Norway, NO.
2016, Scholarship, Scandinavian Center of Shamanic Studies, SE/DK
2016, Diversestipend for nyutdannede kunstnere. Kulturrådet. Art Council Norway, NO
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