The editors Pearla Pigao and Stian Korntved Ruud gives an insight into their editorial process, and the manifold world of craftsmanship, sound and performance. They introduce the issue, consisting of musicians, circuit makers, dancers, composers, gatherers, instrument makers, scenographers, listeners, noise makers, inventors, and writers. They have also included a visual presentation of their creative process, in the form of a moving mind map.

In this essay, art critic and writer Nicholas Norton reflects upon the blurring lines between fine art and crafts in the contemporary art scene in Norway. Norton explores the use of performativity and sound, and he arguments that crafts is an increasingly elastic category, capable of merging different critical perspectives that are not simply beholden to traditions of making, but that can be a way of “making” new perspectives on the world.

Malin Bülow uses her artistic practice to understand our bodies as being fundamentally part of the natural world and not separate from or privileged to it. In her performance installations, the moving bodies continuously shape-shift to suggest a resistance to given forms, renegotiating their own boundaries, as well as that of the architecture. This presentation explores her pursuit to visualise a dependent body that can be seen as an expression of resistance and an initiative to liberation.