Photo: F.Parisio Perrotti
"My work is a practice of presence—where listening becomes a form of responsibility."
Ina Otzko (b. 1972, Norway) is an interdisciplinary artist working at the intersection of perception, time, and the living landscape. From its inception, the natural world has shaped her practice, with ecological forms and rhythms threading through visual, sonic, performative, textual, and sculptural projects. Her work is a practice of presence, where listening, attention, and embodiment become ethical and relational acts.
Through durational, site-responsive, and performative strategies, she engages landscapes shaped by geological processes, climate change, and human histories, exploring how care and responsibility emerge through shared time and proximity. Projects such as Together Elsewhere and IAMNOWHERE create intimate, politically resonant, and perceptually immersive experiences.
Her practice is guided by an eco-somatic intelligence, which enables the body to sense and understand ecological systems in relation to living landscapes, and a philosophy of embodied thought, which positions the body as an instrument for reflection, idea development, and ethical inquiry. Through these frameworks, her work investigates ecological systems—from intimate landscapes to critical regions such as the Arctic and the Amazon—alongside the geopolitical power structures that shape them. Ideas emerge through movement, listening, and sustained attention, translating perception into relational and artistic forms.
Otzko holds Master’s degrees from Goldsmiths, University of London (MA Image & Communication, 2004; MFA Fine Art, 2007) and an additional Master’s degree in Sound Studies from Universität der Künste (UdK), Berlin (2012). She is also a Certified Deep Listening® Teacher through The Center for Deep Listening at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, New York (2022). Her practice has been developed through international residencies, including the Vasulka Chamber Residency, National Gallery of Iceland (2017), NCCA – National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Kronstadt / St. Petersburg (2016), and the Arvo Pärt Centre Nordic Music Residency, Estonia (2025). Most recently, she has been selected for an upcoming residency with LabVerde in the Brazilian Amazon (April 2026) — a transdisciplinary art and ecology program fostering deep engagement with forest ecosystems, indigenous and scientific knowledge, and artistic research.
Otzko presents work internationally and co-founded the nomadic art project Arctic Pavilion.
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