Motaz al Habbash + Marie Skeie
Interview excerpt transcript
Motaz al Habbash is a visual artist and producer who works with different crosscultural projects that are mostly related to home and identity.
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Marie Skeie is based in Hardanger and has lived in Japan, Brazil and Scotland. She has her educational background from the Academy of Art and Design in Bergen with specialisation in Textile and a bachelor’s degree in Sociology from the University of Bergen. She has her master’s in art and public Space at the National Academy of Art and Design in Oslo. She has also studied curatorial practice in public spaces at KORO. Now she is doing a PhD at the University of Southeast Norway. In her doctorate project "Colours of Gaza", she brings her artistic practice of plant dyeing textiles to a kindergarten in Gaza. She has experience as an artist, researcher, curator and producer, often with projects in public spaces. Her interest in collective processes and artistic collaboration has led to her either initiating or participating in projects such as Her og der (2017 - ongoing), The Stitch Project (2012 - ongoing) and (F)jorden (2022).