Lise Linnert
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I sew stitch upon stitch. Or dye recycled textiles with plants and roots. Or draw with light, breath and ash. I arrange workshops and invite people to co-create and talk. Around the table. Above the dye pots. In the darkroom. I am interested in igniting engagement through working with the hands. Experience community. Working with our hands give space for a different kind of conversation. More intimate and honest. And thereby becoming more hopeful. I hope it leaves an imprint, a trace. Duration is important in my practice. I repeat actions and collect and save the materials being made, using it to create site-specific installations.
textile, drawing, installation, photo,interdisciplinary collaboration, activism, clothing design
Project Every day (365 days), Lise Linnert, daily drawing/weave with thread on recycled bandage attached to cotton paper, notes with pencil. Installation size variable, each 14.5 x 22cm
Every day (365 days) - detail from 24 January 2024. Lise Linnert. Weave/drawing with thread on recycled bandage attached to watercolor paper.
Breathe me visible! Lise Linnert in collaboration with inmates in Ullersmo and Trondheim prison, Elisabeth Thorsen (author and priest). Exhibition in Nidaros Cathedral's main ship during Olavsfest 2023. Photogram made of breath, ashes and found objects in a temporary darkroom set up in Ullersmo and Trondheim prison, Woodcut print, hand printed. Dancetheatre "BREAK - Freedom is a small word" developed from the project. (Video link under)
NI EN MORE garments - Handmade in Cd Juarez, Mexico, in a educational center, sewing and natural dye studio for women exposed to violence, founded by textile artists Jane Terrazas (Juarez, Mexico) and Lise Linnert. More information at www.nienmore.org. During Oslo Open a selection of garments from NI EN MORE are available in the my studio, along with a mini dyeing workshop to learn the dyeing technique.
In my studio
When you come to visit me, you can sit down, have a cup of tea or coffee. See, hear and notice the activity that takes place here. You can also see or buy unique garments made in NI EN MORE, a sewing and dyeing studio in Juarez, Mexico. The garments are handmade by women living in vulnerable condintions, exposed to violence. Through education, fair payment and care we hope to ignite change. If you wirsh and have time, you can take part in a mini dyeing workshop and learn the techniques we are dyeing with in Juarez. While you visit the other artists in the building, your little textile are steaming, and before you leave, you can pick it up and bring it with you. Welcome!
Planned projects and exhibitions
BREATHE IN SYNC solo exhibition Kunstbanken, Hamar, autumn 2024
“Puste in sync” is based on a textile work “365 days” which consists of several hundred recycled bandage pieces, each 8 × 12 cm. On it, I have daily woven or drawn with thread a response. I am creating a book for the exhibition that focuses on the importance of our hands and how working with our hands help us process, understand, give us relief. Make space. Or protest. Take action. Art historian and writer Nina Schjønsby is editor and several writers, poets and art colleagues are invited to contribute.
BREATHE ME VISIBLE! (www.pustmegfram.com) Interdisciplinary collaborative project. Elisabeth Thorsen (writer and priest), inmates of Ullersmo and Trondheim prisons and dance artists. Derived from a 2.5-year workshop in the prisons, the project consists of an exhibition, dance theater and discussion program. In 2023, we showed the project in Nidaros Cathedral during Olavsfest. This year, together with graphic artist Lucia Aragon and inmates at Ullersmo, I will complete parts of the material for a permanent exhibition in the prison. The group are also planning new workshops in other prisons and showing the performance and exhibition in various public spaces.
NI EN MORENI EN MORE (2017 – ongoing), Cd Juarez, Mexico. An educational center, sewing and natural dye studio for women exposed to violence, founded by textile artist Jane Terrazas (Juarez) and Lise Linnert. www.nienmore.org
Supported by the Mellon foundation, USA, we have in the past year been able to expand and set up several small sewing and dyeing workshops to include more women. We now have 17 women employed. We wish to spread knowledge and have set up a mobile dyeing workshop in a refugee camp on the border to the US. In the camp thousands of people are stranded in an attempt to cross the border to the US. In collaboration with the Mexican Embassy in Japan, we will in 2024/25 collaborate and exchange experiences with women in Japan.
COLORS FOR HOPE AND EQUALITY (2019 – 2030)
A collaborative project with 4 grades Møllergata school and Tenthaus Oslo. Annual plant dye workshops, create protest T-shirts and a banner that grows each year. Attention to violence against women and the fight for equality. Workshops and screenings/event 8 March, 25 November annually. In 2024 we celebrate our 5th anniversary and work together with Tenthaus for a larger presentation