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The Group Crit is a pedagogical and cinematic experiment - a satirical examination of group critique as a teaching form. By means of a LARP (live action role-playing game) created by the Norwegian artist/filmmaker Sille Storihle, students at the Kabelvåg School of Moving Images under The Arctic University Museum of Norway explore political currents in contemporary art. The students are players who develop their own stories within the game based on scripted characters, and everything is filmed by students in character. With its self-established rules of the game, The Group Crit challenges traditional forms of production, through a performative framework using diegetic documentation. A hybrid, heated and humorous experimental work taking the temperature on the art field as the arena for political debate.

Sille Storihle is an artist and educator based in Oslo, working primarily with moving images and printed matter. Their artistic practice encompasses a body of work in dialogue with queer archives and pasts, exploring relationships between power and performativity. From 2012 to 2020, Storihle ran the queer-feminist platform FRANK together with Liv Bugge. The platform originated as a salon, which developed into a wide range of projects in different locations with various co-curators. Their current research and work focus on live action role-playing games (LARP) as an artistic methodology in the production of moving images. They have exhibited at the National Museum, Oslo, 2023, 2022, 2014; M HKA – Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp, 2020; Kunsthall Oslo, 2018, 2017, 2013; GiBCA – Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art, 2017; Performa, New York, 2013; and Sharjah Biennial 11, 2013, among many others. Storihle holds a BFA from Trondheim Academy of Fine Art and an MA in Aesthetics and Politics from the California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles. Since 2016, they have been Assistant Professor at Kabelvåg School of Moving Images, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø.