Friday 10. oktober | Kl. 18:00 - 20:30 | Kunsthall Trondheim
Performance and panel discussion | Open registration | Price: Free
(Seated arrangement on the floor and some chairs. Food and drinks will be served during the break.)
Propellen Teater and Kunsthall Trondheim invite you to join us for an evening with the artist Sarah Kazmi.
Recipe of/for a Dream is a poem, song, photograph, reverie, perhaps even a prayer; it is a proposition for a new language. The performance will be in three languages, English, Norwegian and Urdu. Working with Norwegian-language textbooks that serve as archives of political history and personal testimony, artist and writer Sarah Kazmi takes a rhizomatic approach to replacing, adding and subtracting words in a bid to challenge false representations of culture and to ask how stories can be re-told. The performance will consist of images, text and a curated playlist.The performance is a list of songs and is inspired by the dramaturgy of various cooking shows. The performance was first shown during VOLT at Bergen Kunsthall in 2024 funded by Arts council Norway and the city of Bergen.
Recipe of/for a Dream will be followed by a discussion between Kazmi and the Trondheim based artist Elly Stormer Vadseth, mediated by Aksel Øien.
Art and activism is the theme for the next three years at Propellen, and together with Trondheim Kunsthall we discuss the role of art in turbulent times. Recipe of/for a Dream is the first collaborative arrangement between the two organisations.
Sarah Kazmi (b.1990 Pakistan, she/her) is a multidisciplinary artist, who lives and works between Oslo and Karachi (Pakistan). Her artistic practice moves across research and visual production, observing the relationship between food, language and politics; often based around/with communities and local environments. In addition to visual artworks Kazmi works with writing, as her texts are often conveyed through a variety of rhythmic disciplines including sound, video, installation, and performance. Alongside her artistic practice, she does policy advocacy for Verdensrommet, an artist-powered support network in Norway.
Kazmi holds a master’s degree in Art and Public Space from Oslo National Academy of the Arts (Norway, 2019). In 2025, she was a participating artist at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (US), 2025. Her solo show, curated by Noor Bhangu, took place at Oslo Intercultural Museum in April 2024 (Norway). In 2025 she had a performance at Bergen Assembly and will present a new work at Colomboscope 2026 by commission of curators Hajra Haider with Natasha Ginwala.
Elly S. Vadseth (b. 1993 Philadelphia USA) is a Norwegian-American interdisciplinary artist working with time based media, installation, social choreography and art in public space. In embodied dialogue with discourses in contemporary art, environmental humanities and eco feminism her durational, place-sensitive work and research circulate around sense-making and interspecies way-finding in unstable, shifting land and water ecologies. She holds an MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University (2018), where she was researching large-scale performance in public space. Currently Vadseth is a PHD fellow in artistic research at the National University of Science and Technology.