Ine Therese Berg
About
Ine Therese Berg is an Associate professor in drama and theatre, with an academic focus in theater and performance studies. She has particular expertise in recent performing arts practices and the development of Norwegian theater and dance after the Second World War. Her research looks at various points of intersection between performing arts and society, and Berg is particularly concerned with connecting theatre-historical, cultural-sociological, dramaturgical and aesthetic discourses around theatre. Her doctoral dissertation Negotiating the Participatory Turn: Audience Participation in Contemporary Theater and Performance (2020) looks, for example, at how a value-laden concept such as participation can both legitimize different artistic practices, while at the same time the critical discourse on the autonomy of art causes the same practices to be questioned from concepts of artistic quality and instrumentalization of art. Her latest publication is the report Mobilization for mobility commissioned by the Norwegian Cultural Council and developed in collaboration with Telemarksforskning. Current projects focus, among other things, on recent Norwegian theater and dance history, the participation of children and young people in the performing arts, the theater as a public arena and "site" for social community as well as the concept of institutional dramaturgy.
Berg was a research fellow at Oslo Met from 2014-2019 and curator at Oslo Museum 2020-2021 where she developed the seminar series Decolonise Theatre History. Working at the Norwegian Dance Information Centre (2008-2014), Berg was responsible for curating and organizing the competence centre's professional programme, including the international conference kedja Oslo - Dance and New Media (2010), as well as the Writing Movement project. During the period, she was editor for several publications and also held critic workshops, lectures and participated in a number of panel debates in Norway and the Nordic/Baltic region. She received the Norwegian state's artist grant for critics in 2020 and in 2014 received the Critics Association award for Critique of the Year.
Her background is in theater studies at the University of Oslo, where she wrote her master's thesis on performing arts and new media, which was later developed into a chapter in the book Scenekunst Nå/Performing Arts Now (2007). She has also studied directing and has worked as a freelance theater instructor for children and young people, script consultant, dramaturg and as a critic and writer for Morgenbladet and Shakespeare magazine. Berg has broad experience from board and committee work in the Norwegian performing arts field and currently sits on the board of Rosendal theater in Trondheim and from 2014 Black Box theater in Oslo. Berg also initiated and led the project Teatervitenskapelig dugnad (2018) and is engaged in professional political issues about the future of Theater Studies in Norway.
Publications
Negotiating The Participatory Turn. Audience Participation in Contemporary Theatre and Performance
Mobilisering for mobilitet. Formidling av fri scenekunst
2022
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Berge, Ola Kveseth;
Berg, Ine Therese;
Kleppe, Bård;
Hjemdahl, Anne-Sofie.
(2022)
Mobilisering for mobilitet. Formidling av fri scenekunst.
Vigmostad & Bjørke
Vigmostad & Bjørke
Report
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Berg, Ine Therese.
(2022)
Aesthetics of Contribution and Participation in "Lulleland".
Orkana Forlag
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
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Berg, Ine Therese.
(2022)
Boundaries of Participation .
Teatervitenskapelige studier
Article in business/trade/industry journal
2020
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Berg, Ine Therese.
(2020)
Negotiating the Participatory Turn: Audience Participation in Contemporary Theatre and Performance.
NTNU
Doctoral dissertation
2019
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Berg, Ine Therese.
(2019)
Teatervitenskap etter vendingen mot deltagelse – disiplinære skillelinjer for fall?.
Peripeti
Academic article
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Berg, Ine Therese.
(2019)
Norwegian Theatre – a blind spot on cultural policy’s participatory agenda?.
Nordisk kulturpolitisk tidsskrift
Academic article
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Berg, Ine Therese;
Gjærum, Rikke Gürgens;
Leirvåg, Siren;
Tronstad, Ragnhild.
(2019)
En fremtid for teatervitenskapen.
Peripeti
Article in business/trade/industry journal
2018
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Berg, Ine Therese.
(2018)
Participation to the People! Locating the Popular in Rimini Protokoll’s Home Visit Europe.
Nordic Theatre Studies
Academic article
2016
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Berg, Ine Therese.
(2016)
Kropp, teori og kjønn. En artikkel om skillelinjer i norsk dans.
Skald forlag
Chapter
Journal publications
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Berg, Ine Therese.
(2022)
Boundaries of Participation .
Teatervitenskapelige studier
Article in business/trade/industry journal
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Berg, Ine Therese.
(2019)
Teatervitenskap etter vendingen mot deltagelse – disiplinære skillelinjer for fall?.
Peripeti
Academic article
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Berg, Ine Therese.
(2019)
Norwegian Theatre – a blind spot on cultural policy’s participatory agenda?.
Nordisk kulturpolitisk tidsskrift
Academic article
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Berg, Ine Therese;
Gjærum, Rikke Gürgens;
Leirvåg, Siren;
Tronstad, Ragnhild.
(2019)
En fremtid for teatervitenskapen.
Peripeti
Article in business/trade/industry journal
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Berg, Ine Therese.
(2018)
Participation to the People! Locating the Popular in Rimini Protokoll’s Home Visit Europe.
Nordic Theatre Studies
Academic article
Part of book/report
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Berg, Ine Therese.
(2022)
Aesthetics of Contribution and Participation in "Lulleland".
Orkana Forlag
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
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Berg, Ine Therese.
(2016)
Kropp, teori og kjønn. En artikkel om skillelinjer i norsk dans.
Skald forlag
Chapter
Report
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Berge, Ola Kveseth;
Berg, Ine Therese;
Kleppe, Bård;
Hjemdahl, Anne-Sofie.
(2022)
Mobilisering for mobilitet. Formidling av fri scenekunst.
Vigmostad & Bjørke
Vigmostad & Bjørke
Report
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Berg, Ine Therese.
(2020)
Negotiating the Participatory Turn: Audience Participation in Contemporary Theatre and Performance.
NTNU
Doctoral dissertation
Teaching
Courses
Media
2021
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InterviewBerg, Ine Therese. (2021) Utdanningsministeren sa han fryktet politisk korrekthet. Nå reagerer forskere. Aftenposten Aftenposten [Newspaper] 2021-07-28
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LectureBerg, Ine Therese. (2021) The Boundaries of Participation. K:13, Cornerteatret, Syv Mil Join In - International Conference on Interactive Theatre , Bergen 2021-09-30 - 2021-10-02
2020
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Academic lectureBerg, Ine Therese. (2020) Cultural Policy as Institutional Dramaturgy. Association of Nordic Theatre Scholars Scan-Aesthetics , Universitetet i Bergen 2020-11-26 - 2020-11-27
2018
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LectureBerg, Ine Therese. (2018) Publikumsdeltagelse og makt: Hvem bestemmer i teatret?. Fortellerfestivalen Fagdag: makt + fortelling , Sentralen, Oslo 2018-01-22 - 2018-01-22
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Academic lectureBerg, Ine Therese. (2018) Teatervitenskap etter vendingen mot deltagelse. Universitetet i Bergen Teatervitenskap - historiografi, teori og praksis , Bergen 2018-05-25 - 2018-05-27
2017
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LectureBerg, Ine Therese. (2017) Audience participation: artistic collaboration? Between art and the social. Jennifer Torrence og Erik Dæhlin Co-art: Samarbeid og mulige kreative kunstneriske relasjoner mellom utøvere og komponister , Norges musikkhøgskole 2017-11-22 - 2017-11-24
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LectureBerg, Ine Therese. (2017) Participation and spectatorship. Black box teater Oslo internasjonale teaterfestival 2017 , Black box teater, Oslo 2017-03-18 - 2017-03-18
2016
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Academic lectureBerg, Ine Therese. (2016) Talking to the audience. Methodological approaches to researching participatory theatre. The Association of Nordic Theatre Scholars Theatre and the Popular , Reykjavik 2016-03-11 - 2016-03-13
2015
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Popular scientific lectureBerg, Ine Therese. (2015) Kritikk og språk. Norsk kritikerlag/Festspillene i Bergen Kunstkritikkens betydning , Bergen 2015-06-07 - 2015-06-07
2014
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Programme participation