Ane Hjort Guttu: Freedom Requires Free People (video still), 2011. Reproduced with the artist’s permission.
To coincide with the presentation of the works, Freedom Requires Free People (2011) and Furniture Isn't Just Furniture (2017) by Ane Hjort Guttu, Kunsthall Trondheim invites the public to an evening of discussion regarding freethinking in the school system, with Elise Farstad Djupedal and Stine H. Bang Svendsen.
Elise Farstad is a university lecturer at the Department of Teacher Education at NTNU and co-author of the report, ”De frafalne: Nedvurderingen av praktisk kunnskap i dagens skole” (“The dropouts: The deprecation of practical knowledge in the school system today”), which focuses on the need for increased diversity in Norwegian schools. Stine H. Bang Svendsen is Associate Professor of Pedagogy at the Department of Teacher Education. Her field of research is gender, sexuality and ethnicity as a point of difference, both inside and outside of the educational system. The discussion will be moderated by Carl Martin Faurby (Programme Curator, Kunsthall Trondheim).
Together they will discuss Ane Hjort Guttu’s work, Freedom Requires Free People, and the issues it raises regarding our current school system, and in general within cultural politics in the Nordic countries.
Freedom Requires Free People is a film about an 8 year old boy at a primary school in Oslo. The film follows him through interviews and during class, looking at the conflict between his strong yearning for freedom and participation, and the framework of the school system.
On Sunday 28 January, Ane Hjort Guttu will present a wide selection of her works at Nova kinosenter.