Ida Lykken Ghosh
Ida Lykken Ghosh is director of Atelier Nord in Oslo. At the Arctic Moving Image & Film Festival 13 – 16 October 2022, Ghosh curates a programme that includes a commissioned work by HC Gilje, a retrospective programme of work by Helene Sommer as well as a panel discussion. Below you can read more about Ghosh and her curatorial project at AMIFF.
Ida Lykken Ghosh has a Norwegian/Indian background and grew up partly in England and Norway. She is a trained photographer and has a broad background as a producer, curator and art consultant from the field of contemporary art, with a focus on photo, video and sound art. Since 2018, she has been the director of Atelier Nord in Oslo, where she works with the development of Atelier Nord as a platform and exhibition venue for media art and sound art. Ghosh has previously worked at Fotogalleriet, Office for Contemporary Art Norway (OCA) and Lofoten International Art Festival (LIAF). In recent years, she has worked in the field of media art, including as coordinator for the Production Network for Electronic Arts (PNEK), where she had a central role in the development of the Video Art Archive. Ghosh is chairman of nyMusikk, as well as a board member of Oslo Open and Bastardklubben. Ghosh contributed a program for AMIFF in 2021 and is this year's guest curator for the festival.
The title of this year's festival is Rewind and Return.
“Through storytelling, archives and a historical retrospective, we want to examine the relationship between the present and the past. What do we bring with us in to the future and what do we choose to learn from the past? The pandemic seems to have caused us a collective amnesia and has erased certain timelines that were previously well defined. Has our memory become more selective or is it ourselves who consciously or unconsciously choose to edit out parts of our recent past?
In contrast to last year's festival, which bore the title The New World and largely wanted to look forward in a post-pandemic landscape, both in a political and economic aspect, with this year's festival we want to go deeper into the personal stories and look at the choices we make on an individual level.
Ghosh has invited HC Gilje to create a commissioned work for the festival. HC Gilje has moved between installation, experimental video, live performance and scenography since he graduated from the Art Academy in Trondheim in 1999. Gilje is concerned with exploration, mainly through installations, the perception of change and the transformation of physical structures (rooms, landscapes, objects , bodies) through volatile media such as light, projection, sound and movement. Gilje will make a new film based on local finds and collections in the local area.
In the work around the theme for this year's festival, where storytelling and archives are the main elements, artist Helene Sommer is a natural choice. Sommer mainly works with video, installation, text and collage, often with archival material and the mechanisms of storytelling as a starting point.
For AMIFF 2022, we are planning a two-part retrospective screening of Sommer's video productions from the period 2005 – 2021 as well as a conversation with the curator.
A panel discussion with selected participants revolving around this year's theme will also be held during the festival period.”
Ida Lykken Ghosh