Office for Contemporary Art Norway announces Staging Two. “They Went Away to Stay”, a project by Ayreen Anastas and Rene Gabri with Ben Morea, which is concluding the programme ‘Of Love, Departures and Countering Defeats in Choleric Times. Three Stagings.’ Ayreen Anastas and Rene Gabri are committed to artistic processes and inquiries that actively attempt to transform the world around us. In this broader commitment to interrogate our time, and to imagine other potentialities (through what is called past and future), their practice has evolved and opened to a multiplicity of forms and manifestations such as film, performance, publication, unwork-shops and collective situations, reflecting the vital interplay between research, creation, and presentation. For Staging Two. “They Went Away to Stay”, they have invited Ben Morea – artist, anarchist, and one of the critical voices
