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Linn Obrestad is a multidisciplinary artist working across experimental film, visual art, and poetic documentary. Drawing on a background in fine art, biotechnology, anthropology, programming, and cultural studies, she works with a research-led and field-responsive approach. Her practice is informed by complexity-sensitive artivism, a working methodology she has developed with Hilde Iren Dølheim for engaging with complex issues through layered narratives, situated inquiry, material thinking, and hybrid forms of sense-making

Her ongoing project Extractions examines the cultural, ecological, and psychological impacts of resource extraction through long-term, collaborative, and research-driven processes. Her work has been presented internationally in film festivals, exhibitions, galleries, and cross-disciplinary platforms, where art, ecology, and science converge in dialogue.

Selected education: BFA, College of Fine Arts, Sydney, Australia, MA in Art and Design, University of South-Eastern Norway, MA in Culture Studies, University of South-Eastern Norway, BSc in Biotechnology, and BA in Social Anthropology, University of Oslo

I make documentaries, art, and everything in between. I love complexity and resist the obvious, the simple, and the inobscure. Some days I prefer fragments; other days I favour wholeness. I aim for comprehension, but I’ll settle for interpretation.

Member of The Norwegian Association for Arts and Crafts (Norske Kunsthåndverkere, NK), The Association of Norwegian Visual Artists (Norske Billedkunstnere, NBK), Science New Wave Luminary

E-mail:
linnobrestad@gmail.com