During Fragment 2025, poet and musician Terje Dragseth teamed up with multidisciplinary artist and producer Tobias Wam Grønborg, also known as Doglover95 to host an open, process-oriented music and poetry workshop at the new CreaTeME lab at Kraftverk, Kristiansand. The workshop served as a living laboratory where sound, text, rhythm, and impulse met in a free and experimental space. It welcomed the spontaneous, the serious, the absurd – and the beautiful.
Terje Dragseth (b. 1955, Kristiansand) is a Norwegian poet, author, filmmaker, and musician. He debuted in 1980 with the poetry collection Offerfesten and has since published over 40 literary works, including poetry, short stories, and translations of Leonard Cohen and Laura Riding Jackson. Known for his uncompromising and visionary style, Dragseth is considered one of Norway’s most prominent poetic voices. He is also the frontman of the experimental rock band I Sing My Body Electric, and has directed several short films. His work often explores themes of humanism, existentialism, and the ecstatic.
Tobias Wam Grønborg, known by his artist name Doglover95, is a multidisciplinary artist, producer, and composer from Drammen, currently based in Oslo. His music blends experimental hip-hop, jazz, and electronic textures, often described as psychedelic and concept-driven. A graduate of the Norwegian Academy of Music’s FRIBA program, he is known for creating immersive artistic worlds through music, performance, video, and visual design. His debut album Love (2019) won Subjekt’s “Music Release of the Year” award, and he continues to push boundaries across genres and media.
Cross-Disciplinary Encounters and Creative Practice
Over the course of two days, participants experienced a unique collaboration between an established poet and a hybrid focused electronic musician and rapper. The duo began by presenting their individual approaches and then engaged in a dialogue about their practices. Students were then invited to join in, challenged to co-create in the space based on the themes explored.
“Participating in the workshop with Terje Dragseth and Doglover95 was both inspiring and positively challenging. We got to explore their different approaches to text and music, and learned creative methods such as the cut-up technique, improvisation, and thinking outside the box. In the end, the participants came together to create a 25-minute electronic concert, improvising with sounds, frequencies, text, and voice. It was a fascinating experience, and it left me with new insights in music making as well as poetry.”
Exploring New Modes of Teaching
This workshop offered a compelling intersection between artistic disciplines and pedagogical innovation. It provided insight into the practices of experimental artists and opened up new ways of thinking about collaboration and teaching. The format of the workshop aligns well with the vision of CreaTeME’s WP1 (work package) – Responsive pedagogies, which focuses on exploring new approaches to education.