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Carla Delfos
Executive Director, ELIA
ELIA – the European League of Institutes of the Arts – is the primary independent membership organisation of major arts education institutions and universities. ELIA represents all the subject disciplines and has a membership of more than 350 arts institutions in 47 countries. Through its membership network ELIA promotes dialogue, mobility, research, sharing of best practice and activities between artists, teachers, administrators and leaders, altogether representing more than 250,000 art students. KHiB has played a significant role on the European platform of higher arts education institutions as well as an active role in the ELIA. KHiB’s contribution includes participation on the Board of ELIA; as President during 1992-1994, and through general involvement in activities.
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Fast Forward
Artist, composer and musician
Guest teacher at KHiB since 2005
Left by workers at Vestre Torggaten in Bergen: Robert Smithson meets Joseph Beuys meets Isamu Noguchi.
Photo: Fast Forward
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Sally Jane Norman
Director of Culture Lab, Newcastle University
KHiB’s contribution to artistic research is significant internationally by virtue of thoroughly original creative research in academic programmes. While leading institutions worldwide debate the status of practice-lead research, the National Norwegian Artistic Research Fellowship Programme emphasises the production of artistic insights parallel to knowledge and experience. This emphasis is particularly valuable in a context where efforts to secure higher education markets through creative research often attempt to meet PhD criteria at all costs, something which undermines both the arts and the academies.
The annual «Sensuous Knowledge» conference similarly insists on artistic values, drawing a diverse range of international, interdisciplinary participants tuned to the uniqueness of KHiB’s artistic research mission.
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Brandon LaBelle
Sound artist and author, PhD London Consortium
I find the environment at KHiB to be uniquely supportive and generous. The Academy creates a productive and serious working environment, while also nurturing dialogue and a sense of sharing. This interweaving of something quite intimate, together with engagement in larger cultural issues helps make KHiB such an edifying environment. Students are offered a range of opportunities to generate individual projects and find critical
reception in a number of forms – I think this dual focus is crucial to inspiring students with concern for their work and its circulation within a greater context. This provides students with the opportunity to envision themselves as contributors to a future discourse and field of practice.
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