Ase Brunborg Lie
Ase Brunborg Lie, in collaboration with Robin Everett and Janne Thomsen
ABOUT
As resident of the Live studio, Ase Brunborg Lie will develop their long-term project NIMBLE WEAVERS, an investigation into energy infrastructure, land-use conflict, and community knowledge within Nordhordland UNESCO Biosphere Reserve. Engaging with the layering of national climate policy, local ecologies, and rural livelihoods, the project examines how extractive logics, land-use and preservation both shape and are shaped by the relationships we cultivate with land and community.
Through community workshops, field-based research, and collaboration, Brunborg Lie works to articulate situated knowledge of these infrastructures: sensing, mapping, and narrating what is often rendered abstract or inaccessible. By weaving together artistic research, citizen-led inquiry, and place-based engagement, NIMBLE WEAVERS asks how communities negotiate belonging, agency, and competing values of nature within contemporary energy landscapes. Close collaborators include PhD student and areal planner Janne Thomsen from the University of Bergen, artist Robin Everett, the Actionable Team, the Nordhordland UNESCO Biosphere Reserve, Nordhordland Libraries, among others.
Working across sound, video, and textile, the research and insights will come together in a solo exhibition at Hordaland Kunstsenter in May 2026.
NIMBLE WEAVERS is coordinated by artist Robin Everett as a part of the NFR transdisciplinary research project ACTIONABLE at the University of Bergen, engaging art and science to address climate adaptation and sustainability in collaboration with the Nordhordland UNESCO Biosphere Reserve. NIMBLE WEAVERS is supported by Vestland fylkeskommune and Bergen Kommune.
ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES
Through their work, Ase Brunborg Lie explores how to create in our present with associated philosophical and ethical questions, and work for more just possible futures. They point out blind spots in historical and social narratives and in built structures, and suggest alternatives to extractivism and human exceptionalism. Central to their practice is site-specificity and cross-pollination, inspired by queer-feminist, postcolonial and scientific thinking. Projects often involve others from creative and scientific fields and from local communities, and include audience-participatory works, performance, sound, multimedia installations, bio art, sculpture, and film, among others. Lie has completed the post-master program Of Public Interest Lab at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm. They hold an MA in Scenography from the Academy of Performing Arts, HIOF and a BFA from Trondheim Art Academy, NTNU.
Robin Everett works with socio- and techno-ecological concerns. A transdisciplinary approach creates assemblages of video, text, and sculpture, involving socially-engaged practices such as workshops and educational events. Amongst other venues he has exhibited at Tag Team, PODIUM, Rjukan Solarpunk Academy, and the 18th Venice Architecture Biennale. He has talked and taught at NKK (Ecology of Residencies), Green Art Incubator (Potential of an Ecological Shift in Culture), ResArtis Conference (Creating Green Change), E-WERK Luckenwalde (Sites of Practice), and Bergen School of Architecture ([Re]Forested Futures). He is currently coordinating a transdisciplinary NFR research project (NIMBLE WEAVERS 2023-2027).
Janne Thomsen is a PhD Candidate at UiB, conducting research in conflicting values of nature and associated land-use conflicts in the context of the Nordhordland UNESCO biosphere reserve in Norway. Her research is positioned within the transdisciplinary research project ACTIONABLE and investigates the potential of nature valuation as a collaboration enabler in land-use management for common futures. She is particularly interested in the social-ecological mismatches between people’s values and formal spatial planning and decision-making processes. Through a partly co-creational research approach, she aims to identify suitable, well-informed, and spatially explicit strategies to guide resilient land-use management and to prevent further biodiversity loss.
