Samira Jamouchi

Norwegian version of this page Department of Natural Sciences, Practical-Aesthetic, Social and Religious Studies
Norwegian version of this page Position
Associate Professor
Contact Study place
Halden
Office nr.
C2-027

Academic interests

Art didactics
Art in school
Artist-teacher 

Performative expression and performance in art and  education 
Contemporary art 

Wool felting as a performative event and affective togetherness

Relationship between traditional craft techniques and contemporary art 
Textile, installation, land-art, process-oriented and interaction in artistic work
Creative writing in teaching and research
Art-based research in and for teaching
Combined scientific and artistic research
International 'co-making' and collaboration  

Courses taught

Background / Education 

Background /Teaching experience

  • Teaching visual arts at university since 2005
  • Teaching at bachelor's, master's level, full-time, part-time and in-depth courses, new beginners and advanced courses
  • International teacher exchange and collaboration in Belgium, the Netherlands, Uganda and Spain
  •  Participation with presentation of my research and development work at several national and international conferences
  •  Exhibition of artistic work in Norway and abroad 

Awards

  • Honorary award from the student association at the University of Oslo in recognition of efforts to promote higher education. 2008
  • Various art grants from the Norwegian Cultural Council, Fritt Ord, Visual Artists Assistance Fund, Visual Artists Remuneration Fund, Lise and Arfinn Hejes Fund, and Norwegian Crafts.
  • Various grants form diverse universities: publication grants for international scientific articles, international dissemination and art exhibition.
  • Nominated as "Top 10" for the leading role model in Norwegian cultural life.  The Leadership Foundation, Oslo. 2007 
  • Prize for my artistic work from the Fondation Artistique Horlait – Dapsens. Belgium. 1997 
  • Awarded for my art work ”Bamboo” (Large format tapestry). Domaine de la Lice, Belgium. 1994 
  • Position of trust 

    • Member of the representative council of Nitja Centre for Contemporary Art.
    • Board member and artistic council at Ås Art Association.
    • Member of the professional committee for children's and youth culture. Norwegian Council of Culture. 2005-2008 
    • Founding member and board member of the Norwegian Moroccan Friends Association (NoMaV). 2005-2006
  • Member of 

    • The Norwegian Association of Arts and Crafts

    • Halden municipality art association 

    • Performance Art Bergen 

    • European Textile Network 

    • International Society for Education Through Art: InSEA

  • National collaboration

    • Member of the project group Breivollrunden kunst- og kultursti. A project in Ås municipality near Nesset and Bunne Fjord, that unites cultural heritage and contemporary art. Project started Januray 2025. 
    • Artistic supervisor for high school students from Munch Secondary School, departement of sewing and textile crafts. During this internship, the student runs an independent research and end-of-school project with wool and fashion design.
    • Invited speaker at Skedsmo Husflidslag. The Norwegian Folk Art and Craft Association. 2024. Title of my contribution: ”Interaction through wool felting”.
    • External examiner and review examiner for master's students in aesthetic subjects and visual arts at several universities in Norway since 2010. Universitet i Sørøst-Norge, Universitet Innlandet, NTNU- Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet, UiT- Norges arktiske universitet, Høgskulen på Vestlandet og OsloMet.
  • International collaboration and partners

    • Invited keynote abroad at: Mohammed V University in Rabat, Association of Teachers of Visual Expression and Communication -APECV in Portugal, School of Technology Cadi-Ayyad University, Essaouira in Morocco, and Simon Fraser University Educational Review Journal in Vancouver, in Canada.
    • I participated at the Creative Exchange Residencies for Craft Practitioners with ceramist Marielle van den Berg in the Nederland. We had a collective exhibition in the Nederland in 2024 and we plan a duo exhibition in Norway in 2026. More info about the program: Les candidatures pour la résidence d'échange créatif sont ouvertes jusqu'en mars 2025 seulement ! - European Crafts Alliance 
    • Textile Cartographies. Textile Cartographies is a participatory action research project using textile arts as story telling, coordinated by APECV Research Group on Arts, Community and Education (GriArCE) with 29 groups from universities, schools, collectives and Associations in Americas; Africa; Asia; Australia and Europe. My article "Fabric and fabrications of fabulations. Re-connecting with threads and people I didn’t know " is in our digital catalogue: TC_CATALOGUE_23-2024.pdf 
    • Invited lecturer at the university of Jaen in Spain. December 2024. Three lectures and workshops with students in Master’s Degree in Aesthetic Research and Education. Organized by the research group INTRA -Expressive Arts Education, Implementation and Research "Resonance – the materiality of the body".
    • Lecture and workshop with teacher students at the University College Leuven-Limburg, Hasselt, Belgium. 2023. Title of my presentation: "Upcycling textile"
    • Lecture and workshop at the Faculty of Science and Technology. University Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah, Fez, Morocco. 2023. Project organized with professor Najiba El Armani El Idrisi. Title: "La fluidité des matières souples".
    • Artistic intervention with students from Lycé Qualifian in Essaouira, Morocco. February 2023. Organized in collaboration with Najat Azmy, director of the organization Les Passerelles des Savoirs and member of The Council of the Moroccan Community Abroad.
    • Presentation at the 26ème Edition du Salon International de l'Édition et du Livre de Casablanca, Maroc. February 2020. Event organized by the Conseil de la Communauté Marocaine à l'Étranger. Title of my presentation: "Image du Maroc fût un temps et trois narrations contemporaines".
    • “While I am thinking about you and …” with performance artist Lap-Xuan Do-Nguyen, Vietnam: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6mPVuodo-I and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9dSxIV4D-Q 
    • “Løk til kulinariske og estetiske opplevelser” with Tenthaus Art Collective and an elementary school in Norway https://www.tenthaus.no/activities/p1-samira-jamouchi
    •  “Inhabiting Living Practice A performative approach” with international artists-scholar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jy_527YSeY
    • “Meeting through iterative gestures of felting. Other contexts, other encounters” with MOOT++ art residency, VIetrnam: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpZlIpnMnnw&t=7s 
    • Keynote at Simon Fraser University Educational Review Journal. Vancouver, B.C. Symposium: Research and Learning.
    • “J’ai perdu mon mouchoire” with CREO program at the UCLL/Leuven University College, Belgium.: https://vimeo.com/user45015624
    • “Performative drawing” with diverse Universities, including Centro Universitario Cardenal Cisneros. Spain: https://vimeo.com/195767969  

Publications

  • Jamouchi, Samira (2026). Collectivité et affect dans une approche performative de l’acte artistique-pédagogique. Attadriss. ISSN 0851-1136. 16, p. 7–34. Full text in Research Archive
  • Jamouchi, Samira (2025). Made by entangled words and wool: Rhizomatic relations in writing and making with(in) the phenomenon of wool felting. Nordic Journal of Art & Research (A & R). 14(2), p. 1–29. doi: 10.7577/ar.5463. Full text in Research Archive
  • Jamouchi, Samira (2024). Rethinking Pedagogy as Material-Discursive Intra-Actions. In Morales, Jessie A. Bustillos & Zarabadi, Shiva (Ed.), Towards Posthumanism in Education: Theoretical Entanglements and Pedagogical Mappings. Routledge. ISSN 9781003365693. Full text in Research Archive
  • Jamouchi, Samira & Illeris, Helene (2024). Kunstdidaktikk materialisert gjennom sammenfiltring av ulltoving. In Østern, Tone Pernille; Illeris, Helene; Knudsen, Kristian Nødtvedt; Jusslin, Sofia & Holdhus, Kari Mette (Ed.), Kunstfagdidaktikk som kunstnerisk, forskende og oppmerksom undervisningspraksis. Universitetsforlaget. ISSN 9788215065953. p. 101–116. Full text in Research Archive
  • Klungland, Monica; Jamouchi, Samira; Eriksen, Helen & Hauen, Mali (2023). MATERIAL TOUCH. APRIA [Artez Platform for Research Interventions of the Arts]. Full text in Research Archive
  • Jamouchi, Samira (2023). Shibori her og nå Et kunstprosjekt med naturmaterialer i skolen. FormAkademisk - Forskningstidsskriftet for design og designdidaktikk. 16(2). doi: 10.7577/formakademisk.4896. Full text in Research Archive
  • Shields, Alison; Cloutier, Geneviève; Fursman, Joanna; Lara-Osuna, Rocío; Inostroza, Jessica Castillo & Arias-Camisón, Alicia [Show all 16 contributors for this article] (2023). Inhabiting/Living Practice: An Emergent Collaborative Arts-Based Exhibition. In Mreiwed, Hala; Carter, Mindy R.; Hashem, Sara & Blake-Amarante, Candace H. (Ed.), Making Connections in and Through Arts-Based Educational Research. Springer Nature. ISSN 9789811980275. p. 167–181. doi: 10.1007/978-981-19-8028-2_13. Full text in Research Archive
  • Dall'Armellina, Luc; Jamouchi, Samira & Saajoranta, Kerttuli (2022). A powerful affinity in on-going singular(s) process. Sharing artistic practices in training teachers. Journal of the European Teacher Education Network (JETEN). ISSN 1749-7213. p. 1–22. Full text in Research Archive
  • Jamouchi, Samira (2022). Diversity and inclusion.Visual arts in teacher education in a Norwegian context, focusing on performative approaches to art teaching practices. Laboratore de Recherche Société Langage, Art et Médias. ISSN 2737-8845. 6(6), p. 1–27. Full text in Research Archive
  • Cloutier, Geneviève; Shields, Alison; Do-Nguyen, Lap-Xuan; Jamouchi, Samira & Gillard, Yoriko (2022). “Becoming I/We” Together as Critical Performance Pedagogy: Facilitating Intra-Actions and Metissage from Inhabiting/Living Practice. In Burkholder, Casey; Aladejebi, Funké & Schwab-Cartas, Joshua (Ed.), Facilitating Community Research for Social Change: Case Studies in Qualitative, Arts-Based and Visual Research. Routledge. ISSN 9781032058023. p. 258–276. doi: 10.4324/9781003199236-21. Full text in Research Archive
  • Jamouchi, Samira (2020). Affective togetherness in arts education: Lingering on a performative approach to wool felting. MATTER: Journal of New Materialist Research. 1(2). doi: 10.1344/jnmr.v1i2.31840. Full text in Research Archive
  • Jamouchi, Samira (2020). Felting wool together and feeling togetherness. A performative approach to visual arts. In Amine, Khalid (Eds.), Across Borders andThresholds. Performing in Zones of Contact and Friction. Abdelmalek Essaadi University. ISSN 9789920320696. p. 197–210. Full text in Research Archive
  • Jamouchi, Samira (2020). Mat(rester), estetikk og etikk. Kunsten å bringe store bærekraftperspektiver og miljøspørsmål i lokale kontekster. In Dybvik, Hilde & Karlsson, Eivind (Ed.), Fra bordvers til bildebøker. Mat og måltider i barnelitteraturen. Fagbokforlaget. ISSN 9788245032024. p. 199–212. Full text in Research Archive
  • Jamouchi, Samira (2019). Exploring art and craft in teacher education whilst going toward a performative approach: Some reflections on re-turning and engaging diffractively with felting wool. SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY EDUCATIONAL REVIEW JOURNAL. ISSN 1916-050X. 2(1), p. 68–81. doi: 10.21810/sfuer.v12i1.612. Full text in Research Archive
  • Jamouchi, Samira (2019). Exploring a Performative Approach to Felting Wool. An autoethnography for two? The European Journal of Philosophy in Arts Education. 4(01), p. 54–88. doi: 10.1344/jnmr.v1i2.31840. Full text in Research Archive

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  • Klungland, Monica; Gulpinar, Tona; Jamouchi, Samira; Eriksen, Helen & Hauen, Mali (2026). Repeat after me! Actions talk louder than words. doi: https:/www.artsymposium-uia.com/. Full text in Research Archive
  • Jamouchi, Samira (2026). Material plasticity. Rhizomatiske koblinger - mellom tekstil og keramikk. Full text in Research Archive
  • Jamouchi, Samira & Bergstedt, Bosse (2026). Bokpresentasjon: "Multisensorisk læring: om intensitet og kropp-materiell i en performativ kunstpedagogikk". doi: https:/www.hiof.no/bibliotek/om/aktuelt/arrangementer/2026/boklansering-multisensorisk-lering.html. Full text in Research Archive
  • FERREIRA-NORMAN, INÊS & Jamouchi, Samira (2026). NO PRINCÍPIO DO MUNDO DISSE A OVELHA. E O FIO DE LÃ SE TORNOU PASTOR, ARTISTA E RESISTÊNCIA. doi: https:/www.artecapital.net/opiniao.php?ref=275. Full text in Research Archive
  • Jamouchi, Samira (2025). Medlemsutstillingen Ås kunstforening. doi: https:/www.aaskunstforening.no/l/medlemsutstillingen-2025/. Full text in Research Archive
  • Jamouchi, Samira; Eriksen, Helen & Moi, Ebba (2025). Veving Grønland. Full text in Research Archive
  • Jamouchi, Samira (2025). Langsomme og myke forbindelser. Full text in Research Archive
  • Jamouchi, Samira (2025). Samiras fibrene: Artist Talk mellom kunstner Samira Jamouchi og rådgiver for kultur, idrett og frivillighet Rachael Elizabeth Brand i Ås. Full text in Research Archive
  • Jamouchi, Samira (2025). Faits de temps et de textures. Full text in Research Archive
  • Jamouchi, Samira (2025). Ullfibrenes plastisitet. Full text in Research Archive
  • Jamouchi, Samira (2025). Collectivité et affect dans une approche performative de l’acte artistique-pédagogique. Full text in Research Archive
  • Jamouchi, Samira; Gulpinar, Tona & Eriksen, Helen (2025). Materialization of the Palestinian flag. Our freedom is incomplete. Full text in Research Archive
  • Jamouchi, Samira; Gulpinar, Tona & Eriksen, Helen (2025). Materializing the Palestinian Flag: embroidery workshop with students – Across, With, Nearby. Full text in Research Archive
  • Eriksen, Helen; Morita, Yuko; Gulpinar, Tona; Jamouchi, Samira; Hauen, Mali & Klungland, Monica (2025). Static Sense - Performance Event with the Stitch Sisters - For Tokyo Biennale. doi: https:/tokyobiennale.jp/tb2025/event/rrr_staticsense/. Full text in Research Archive
  • Eriksen, Helen; Gulpinar, Tona & Jamouchi, Samira (2025). Materialising the meaning of the Palestinian flag. Full text in Research Archive
  • Eriksen, Helen; Gulpinar, Tona & Jamouchi, Samira (2025). Tekstilaksjonen «Å materialisere det palestinske flagget». Full text in Research Archive
  • Jamouchi, Samira (2025). Fabric and fabrications of fabulations. Re-connecting with threads and people I didn’t know (yet). In Eça, Teresa Torres de & Saldanha, Ângela (Ed.), Textile Cartographies: 2023-2024. Association of Teachers of Visual Expression and Communication. ISSN 9789893588727. p. 149–170. Full text in Research Archive
  • Jamouchi, Samira (2025). FOSTERING A SENSE OF togetherness THROUGH transformative ART PRACTICES. Full text in Research Archive
  • Jamouchi, Samira (2025). Nøklene til de fordrevne. Full text in Research Archive
  • Jamouchi, Samira (2025). ACTIONS ARTISTIQUES COMMME re-action AU MONDE ET LE CONCEPT DE togetherness. Full text in Research Archive
  • Jamouchi, Samira (2025). Sensory reminiscence Re-encounter with wool and clay. Full text in Research Archive
  • Jamouchi, Samira; Nygaard-Joki, Sonja & Hallman, Linda Anneth (2024). Sammenfiltring mellom skolebarn og ull fra norsk spelsau. Full text in Research Archive
  • Jamouchi, Samira (2024). Ullens prosessuelle tilblivelse i perfromance kunst. Filteforening GRIMA. ISSN 0908-6161. p. 8–11. Full text in Research Archive
  • Jamouchi, Samira; Nygaard-Joki, Sonja & Hallman, Linda Anneth (2024). Berør og bli berørt av ullfiber. Full text in Research Archive
  • Jamouchi, Samira (2024). Growing naturly with the flow. Full text in Research Archive
  • Jamouchi, Samira (2024). Performing moving – movements: “MOVing MOVements //MOVMOV”. Full text in Research Archive
  • Jamouchi, Samira (2024). A performative approach to drawing: “Performative bodies in drawing”. Full text in Research Archive
  • Jamouchi, Samira (2024). A performative approach to material wool: “A place to become with wool// Sympoiesis”. Full text in Research Archive
  • Jamouchi, Samira (2024). Resonans – kroppens materialitet. Full text in Research Archive
  • Jamouchi, Samira (2024). Samhandling gjennom ulltoving. Full text in Research Archive
  • Jamouchi, Samira (2024). Wool felting as moment to share with Ukrainian refugees. Full text in Research Archive
  • Jamouchi, Samira (2024). Ancestral craft making – Wool as diffractive structure. Full text in Research Archive
  • Jamouchi, Samira (2023). Upcycling textile. Full text in Research Archive
  • Jamouchi, Samira (2023). Rhizomatic relations in visual arts making and art education. Full text in Research Archive
  • Jamouchi, Samira (2023). Artist-teacher in the meanders of the rhizomatic relation with(in) felting and worlding. Full text in Research Archive
  • Jamouchi, Samira (2023). MADE BY WOOL – what material does. Full text in Research Archive
  • Jamouchi, Samira (2023). Når tanker og konsepter materialiseres og infiltreres. Full text in Research Archive
  • Jamouchi, Samira (2023). La laine comme valeur artistique et culturelle. Full text in Research Archive
  • Jamouchi, Samira (2023). Shibori her og nå. Full text in Research Archive
  • Jamouchi, Samira (2023). While I am thinking about tyou and what you are doing. Full text in Research Archive
  • Jamouchi, Samira (2023). Min kombinert PhD i lys av håndverk i vår samtid. Full text in Research Archive
  • Jamouchi, Samira & Nguyen, Lap Xuan Do (2023). While I'm Thinking About You and (Our) Togetherness. Full text in Research Archive
  • Jamouchi, Samira (2023). CRAFT, ART. EDUCATION. ON TOUCHING AND BEING TOUCHED IN OUR ENCOUNTER WITH WOOL FELTING. Full text in Research Archive
  • Jamouchi, Samira (2023). Skolebarn i møte med en kunstner-lærer. Å farge med og på naturmaterialer i en verden i tilblivelse. Full text in Research Archive
  • Jamouchi, Samira (2023). Cutting through an assemblage of other-less. Full text in Research Archive
  • Jamouchi, Samira (2023). En performativ tilnærming til ulltoving. Når prosessen er like viktig som resultatet. Full text in Research Archive
  • Jamouchi, Samira (2023). La fluidité des matières souples. Full text in Research Archive
  • Jamouchi, Samira (2023). Workshop med ull toving 16.10.2023. Full text in Research Archive
  • Jamouchi, Samira & Nguyen, Lap-Xuan Do (2023). When I think about you and (our) differences. Roundtable as a playroom event and place of artistic becoming. Full text in Research Archive
  • Jamouchi, Samira & Bergstedt, Bosse (2023). Playground for teachers, students and artists in practice. Roundtable as a playroom event and place of artistic becoming. Full text in Research Archive
  • Bergstedt, Bosse; Jamouchi, Samira & Do, Lap-Xuan (2023). Roundtable as a playroom event and place of artistic becoming. Full text in Research Archive
  • Jamouchi, Samira & Salvo, Bianca (2023). THE INDIGENOUS GAZE. Decolonizing visual cultures, visual methodologies and decolonial strategies in contemporary visual arts. Full text in Research Archive
  • Jamouchi, Samira (2023). Samira har tatt doktorgraden på ulltoving. [Journal]. https://forskning.no/kunst/samira-har-tatt-doktorgraden-pa-u. Full text in Research Archive
  • Jamouchi, Samira (2022). Artistic and scholarly work in teacher education. Full text in Research Archive
  • Jamouchi, Samira (2022). Art and artistic education. Full text in Research Archive
  • Jamouchi, Samira; Klungland, Monica; Eriksen, Helen & Hauen, Mali (2022). Stitch Sisters. Time of material through wool. Full text in Research Archive
  • Jamouchi, Samira (2022). Materiality and co-making with wool fibres. Full text in Research Archive
  • Jamouchi, Samira (2021). Zineb, Hafida et Amina. Trois artistes issues de la diversité et diplômées de l’Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles exposent du 23 septembre au 3 octobre 2021 à la Maison Stepman. [Internet]. https://www.dounia-news.eu/zineb-hafida-et-amina/. Full text in Research Archive
  • Eriksen, Helen; Klungland, Monica & Jamouchi, Samira (2021). Forskning i Praksisfeltet. Full text in Research Archive
  • Jamouchi, Samira (2021). Art(istic) approach to teacher training. A performative experience of wool felting with international students. Full text in Research Archive
  • Jamouchi, Samira (2021). Wool felting as a collective practice. Full text in Research Archive
  • Jamouchi, Samira & Do, Lap-Xuan Nguyen (2021). While I am thinking about you and our togetherness. Full text in Research Archive
  • Jamouchi, Samira (2021). Art(istic) education. Vitalising materiality though a performative approach. Full text in Research Archive
  • Jamouchi, Samira & Dybvikstrand, Trine Sofie (2021). Performative passages into colour theory/teaching. Full text in Research Archive
  • Jamouchi, Samira (2020). Samira Jamouchi, un regard d’artiste sur la migration. [Journal]. Marokko. Full text in Research Archive
  • Jamouchi, Samira (2020). Tekstiler, fibre og komposisjoner: Samhandling og affekt i handlinger. Full text in Research Archive
  • Jamouchi, Samira (2020). Samira stiller ut på Galleri Rød. [Internet]. Halden Arbeiderblad. Full text in Research Archive
  • Jamouchi, Samira (2020). Samira Jamouchi stiller ut på Galleri Rød. [Internet]. Halden Kandusi. Full text in Research Archive
  • Jamouchi, Samira (2020). Tekstil, fiber og komposisjoner. Samhandling og affekt i handlinger. Full text in Research Archive
  • Jamouchi, Samira (2020). Mat(rester), estetikk og etikk. Full text in Research Archive
  • Jamouchi, Samira & Klungland, Monica (2020). Performativ tilnærming til materialer og teknikker i kunst & håndverk. Full text in Research Archive
  • Jamouchi, Samira (2020). Images du Maroc d’antan et trois narrations de notre temps. Full text in Research Archive
  • Jamouchi, Samira (2020). Samira Jamouchi, artiste, chercheur et professeur en arts visuels en Norvège. [Internet]. Awacer TV, Maroc. Full text in Research Archive
  • Jamouchi, Samira (2020). Performative practices in art making and teaching - concern in context(s). Full text in Research Archive
  • Jamouchi, Samira (2019). About exploring art and craft in teacher education whilst going toward a performative approach: some reflection on re-turning and engaging diffractively with felting wool. Full text in Research Archive
  • Jamouchi, Samira (2019). Result of our encounters. Full text in Research Archive
  • Jamouchi, Samira (2019). On performativity - Process and product: Looking at the value of making/doing. As a part of intercultural approaches to Circus, Childlore, Performance ans Installation as a tool in Educational context. Full text in Research Archive
  • Illeris, Helene; Kallio-Tavin, Mira; Klungland, Monica; Jamouchi, Samira; Godin, Marie-Andrée & Pinto, Tiago [Show all 7 contributors for this article] (2019). Artistic inquiry in the making – experiences from a Nordic doctoral course performing research in a local setting. Full text in Research Archive
  • Illeris, Helene; Klungland, Monica; Jamouchi, Samira & Eriksen, Helen (2019). Inhabiting materials – making rhythm – exploring community. Full text in Research Archive
  • Jamouchi, Samira (2019). Forvandlinger og ullfiber: En performativ tilnærming til faget kunst og håndverk. Full text in Research Archive
  • Jamouchi, Samira; Illeris, Helene; Jortveit, Anne Karin; Skregelid, Lisbet & (Dosent), Jadwiga Blaszczyk-Podowska (2023). A performative approach to wool felting : Rhizomatic relations in visual arts making and art education. Universitetet i Agder. ISSN 9788284271309. Full text in Research Archive

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