Myna Trustram

United Kingdom °1954
research interests: Experimental writing. Museology.
affiliation: Independent
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Myna Trustramhas worked in England for many years as a historian, museum curator and academic. In 2021 she stopped paid work and now works as a writer, mostly of short experimental essays in which she calls upon literary and academic forms to consider themes such as mourning, childhood, separation and emptiness.


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  • Tracing Practices – questioning and circulating archives (2023) author(s): Per Roar, Camilla Graff Junior, Luisa Greenfield, Myna Trustram published in: VIS - Nordic Journal for Artistic Research
    Our exposition comes out of a conversation and explorative research process about the performative potential of archives, both publicly and personally, shaped by four different artistic mediums and practices in film, performance art, choreography and essay writing. The shared medium has been through the use of text and online communication. The research was developed through ongoing monthly meetings and notes that were taken since April 2019. From those meetings, we laid a structure where we each created our parts of what became the score for "Living and Lasting", which we first performed in Oslo and then in Berlin in 2022*. This score is the pivot point of our exposition. Our working process includes considerable elements of risk and surprise by alternating between collaborative meetings and individual work. The first time we perform a new piece none of us know exactly what or how the others will present. Along with the audience, we experience portions of the text, movements, and media put together for the first time, without knowing whether the whole thing will coalesce, diverge, or fall apart.  (*) In Oslo at the 2022 Nordic Summer University (NSU) and in Berlin at the symposium “Who tells y/our story?” ​​by the artistic research project MEMORYWORK (2021-2024).
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