Jens Martin Hartvedt Arvesen (NO)
Jens Martin (they/them) has worked with several different art media, mostly with drag, dance, and DJing, since 2013. Jens Martin now works freelance as a performance artist and project initiator. They are an educated dancer from KHiO.
They have been focused on creating spaces for queer performance art, and raising awareness, and articulating with words, underrepresented aesthetics in queer tradition through teaching and exemplification. They linked the term “Abject” together with Drag’s term “Filth” in the drag performance seminar “Becoming the Abject” in 2020. Recently, contemporary romantic ideals have increasingly infiltrated their art, while they have shifted focus from production and facilitation to creation and process. Jens Martin wishes to move towards creating art that to the greatest extent possible consists of homemade material and is currently working in a landscape consisting of movement, text, visual media and performative presence.
Taken residency at
Davvi – Centre for Performing Arts
Davvi – Centre for Performing Arts is a hub and a gathering point in Northern Norway for the professional independent Performing Arts community. The organization is a laboratory for new ideas, artistic research, and an open space where different cultures are cared for. We challenge hegemonic thinking and support cross-sectorial artistic working and thinking. We are staff of 11 curios people, we are placed in Hammerfest, Tromsø and Bodø and we are a space that offers residency, laboratories and producer services.
HELLERAU – European Center for the Arts
HELLERAU acts as an interdisciplinary and international centre for dance, performance, music, theatre and media arts. It offers spaces for productions, festivals, concerts performances, exhibitions and discourse, cooperates with various regional cultural partners and is firmly connected internationally. An important part of HELLERAU is a residency program, which offers opportunities for artistic research, networks, production and encounters throughout the whole year.
INITIUM
Foundation INITIUM is a production platform for contemporary art and culture projects. At INITIUM, our mission is to facilitate community development through the transformative power of arts and culture. We collaborate with communities to create and develop innovative theatre productions and art projects that reflect their unique stories, perspectives and experiences. Through these collaborative endeavours, we strive to promote social change and inspire a more inclusive and vibrant society.
