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ÅpentForum presents: MOMUS, aka Nick Currie Tirsdag 31. mars kl. 19:00 på Kunstakademiet i Oslo

The son of a linguist, Nick Currie was brought up in Edinburgh, Athens and Montréal. After studying English Literature at the University of Aberdeen, Currie reinvented himself as Momus—named after a minor Greek god of criticism and laughter—and began a career as a singer-songwriter in London in the mid-1980s. Over the past 25 years he’s released twenty albums of songs in styles ranging from through-composed chamber pop to exuberant folktronica. In the 21st century he’s diversified into the worlds of fine art (with several performance shows in New York) and journalism (regular columns with Wired, The New York Times and Frieze magazine). In 2009 he will publish two books, The Book of Jokes, a novel, and The Book of Scotlands, a work of speculative non-fiction about his homeland containing one thousand parallel world Scotlands. He lives in Berlin.

The talk will be held in English

Åpent Forum er en serie med forelesninger, presentasjoner og samtaler med kunstnere initiert og arrangert av Kunstakademiet i Oslo. Åpent Forum finner normalt sted hver mandag kl 19.00 i auditoriet i St. Olavsgt. 32, og er åpent for alle som er interessert, også utenfor Kunstakademiet.

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