RESCAPE was established in 2017 and refers to both a research method as well as the long-lasting academic and artistic collaboration between Janke Klok, Lena Haselmann, and Lilli Mittner who are all committed to interdisciplinary arts-based research. The acronym R-E-S-C-A-P-E stands for Research – Education – Sources – Creativity – Arts – Performances – Engagement.
2026
January 25th: Invitation by Grieg Begegnungsstätte
RESCAPE was invited by the Grieg Begegnungsstätte to bring Agathe Backer Grøndahl and Edvard Grieg together in novel ways. They will compile a sett of 43 letters, music, biographies, pictures and other materials to provide insight into the creative processes and important networks of 19. century artists in Europe.
January 24th: A Coffee in Berlin
As the initiator of Exploring academic practices is Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Stephanie von Schnurbein one of the early inspirators of the RESCAPE method, that startet in 2017. At 24. January 2026 RESCAPE met her in a cosy café in Berlin Kreuzberg to re-conect and share ongoing and future work.
January 22th- 23th: Writing Laboratory in Melchow
In the beautiful evironment of Melchow, a small village in the county of Brandenburg, north of Berlin, RESCAPE met in person to think, write and create together. The team met 22th to 23th of January to work with archival materials, music, pictures and other sources that give insight into artistic practices, complex relationships and cultural transfer in past, present and future The results will be presented at the Grieg Begegnungsstätte in Leipzig the 25th of January. Everyone is welcome!
October 2025: International Conference on Feminist Philosophies and Methods
RESCAPE presents a paper at the International Conference on Feminist Philosophies and Methods at the Department of Philosophy and First Semester Studies at UiT The Arctic University of Norway, 23th od October 2025. The talk addresses basic questions such as how to direct our attention through words, images and performances to what is not yet known? How to change the lighting in (historical) narratives about women and men, art and science, humans and nature, and other binaries?
RESCAPE film (2024)
Translating written collage into a film collage is challenging and fun. Upon invitation from Silje Gaupseth at the Polar museum, RESCAPE created a conversation between Wanny Woldstad, Christiane Ritter and Cora Sandel. Together with RESULT we are making a film.
Voices of Women in the Arctic and beyond (2023)
RESCAPE created a dramatic assemblage with Wanny Woldstad, Christiane Ritter, Sara Fabricius and the Polar museum. You can read more about the project here.
Discussing the effects (2019)
After we had performed our assemblage at the Art Museum of Northern Norway we looked at the collages that we co-created together with the community. Here, Janke Klok and Lilli Mittner are discussing the effects of situated art intervention.
Collaboration with the Northern Norwegian Art Museum (2019)
In collaboration with the Northern Norwegian Art Museum, Centre for Women- and Gender Research at UiT – The Arctic University of Norway and research group MAGIC – Multimodality, Art, and Gender in Interdisciplinary Communication.
RESCAPE is born (2018)
We are invited by Kate Maxwell to participate in the ‘Folkemusikk’ course in Målselv. Together, we find a name for what we are doing: Research – Education – Sources – Creativity – Arts – Performances – Engagement: RESCAPE.
Where it all started (2016)
A project at the Humboldt Universität zur Berlin, performed at the Nordic Embassies. Our first collaboration started in 2016 with a project at the Nordic Embassies. Haselmann, L., Klok, J., & Mittner, L. (2019). »Dat soll auch nicht jehen, dat soll fahren…« Norwegische Künstlerinnen in Berlin (Vol. 25). Nordeuropa-Institut der Humboldt-Universität.
Klok, J., Haselmann, L., & Mittner, L. (2017). Rastlose Lieder. Signe Lund—Mon Schjelderup—Agathe Backer Grøndahl. Lieder, Klavier- und Kammermusikwerke norwegischer Komponistinnen. CD. betont Label der Universität der Künste Berlin.
