Ane Hjort Guttu’s film Manifesto, 2020, (27 min) speculates on the aims and purposes of institutional art education. Newly migrated into a university and an open-plan campus building, an art school feels cornered by a suffocating culture of surveillance and administration. Staff and students find ways to subvert control through secret operations. Drawing on her own experiences as an art teacher, Ane Hjort Guttu explores what is lost when creativity is replaced by order and provides action plans for how to be the playful rebel.
Ane Hjort Guttu is a visual artist and filmmaker based in Oslo. She works across a range of media, with a particular focus on text and moving images. Her practice explores the relationship between freedom and power, how we navigate public space, individual autonomy, and the social, economic, and political conditions of art.
From 13 to 20 March 2026 Ane Hjort Guttu will be leading the eighth Cornwall Workshop, a weeklong intensive residential workshop for artists, curators and writers based in Cornwall and the South West. The workshop is organised by CAST and hosted at Kestle Barton on the Lizard peninsula.