Wednesday 17 January – Hugoteatern, Teknikringen 35 and Bion, Valhallavägen 189
Maria Lindeman
PhD student
Title of the presentation
Collective creative processes and alternative expressions within opera and music theatre.
What are you investigating and why?
Within the frame of my research project I am exploring the role of the director in collective creative processes within opera and music theatre. Together with collaborating artists I am looking for alternative expressions within contemporary opera using approaches and methods from theatre and other fields of performing art. We are also aiming at shorter production processes where the participating artists are working together in a shared space.
What will we experience during your presentation?
I will reflect on group dynamics and leadership within collective processes, and possible new operatic expressions emerging from these. I will also show some examples from my research process during 2023 where the emphasis has been on the use of technology and improvisation, focusing mainly on the ongoingprojects Aqua and The Cyborg.
How can your project open up thoughts about ethical issues within your artistic practice?
Through enabling and facilitating the collective creative process I hold space for the artistic expressions of all participants. This way of working raises questions concerning authorship, authenticity and responsibility in relation to both the process and the final results of the collaboration and/or production.
Hendrik Quast
PhD Student
Title of the presentation
Crip Ventriloquism – Humor in artistic research
What are you investigating and why?
In this performative lecture, theatre maker, performer and artistic researcher Hendrik Quast explores how he employs ventriloquism as a mode researching on, with and through his hidden disability. Thereby, lecture explores how ventriloquism can deal as research tool and becomes a mode of performative research in crip-time.
What will we experience during your presentation?
Performative Lecture
How can your project open up thoughts about ethical issues within your artistic practice?
How do artistic methods and practices interrelate while research on, with and through a dis/abled body? How to deal with a research design in which the artistic researcher is subject and object of the research design and process at the same time?
Thomas Brennan
Assistant Lecturer of Post Production
Title of the presentation
Am I human?
What are you investigating and why?
Am I human? explores the performative possibilities of identity construction, revelation, and transformation. I will attempt to provoke reflection about assumptions we make and expectations we have when experiencing live and mediated art forms. I will claim that identity is both an abstraction and a storytelling pursuit, and has relevance in the performative space for disabled artists specifically
What will we experience during your presentation?
During the presentation findings will be presented in two ways. First, as an academic presentation describing methods, motivations, and positioning the research within the relevant research field. Second, as a 35 minute dress rehearsal in the form of two opera scenes embedding the findings in my art practice.
How can your project open up thoughts about ethical issues within your artistic practice?
I am working in an area where disability, performance and identity overlap. I intend to open up thoughts about the disabled body in the public space. How disabled artists choose to identify, and when, is an important to my work. Using autobiographical materials and my own body to explore the performative nature of disability or non-disability,questions will be raised and boundaries will be pushed.
Christina Lindgren
Associate Professor in Performing Arts
Title of the presentation
Costume Agency Artistic Research Project 2018-2023
What are you investigating and why?
What does a costume "do" in a performance? Can an artistic process with a performance take its starting point in costume? These questions were investigated through different artistic methods and formats in the research project led by Christina Lindgren in collaboration with dramaturge Sodja Lotker from DAMU Prag. This lecture provides an insight into the research's questions, methods and results.
What will we experience during your presentation?
The lecture provides an insight into the artistic research's questions, methods, and results in the project's various formats. Video and pictures will be shown. www.costumeagency.khio.no. The project also included hosting the international conference and exhibition Critical Costume 2020 which provided space for both artistic and academic contributions. www.costumeagency.com
How can your project open up thoughts about ethical issues within your artistic practice?
Costume Agency involved many artists, such as 20 costume designers, 20 dancers, lighting designers, theoreticians, but also non-humans such as costumes, stages, lights and more. "Listening to the costume" was a concept that was already used in the first workshop. What might happen if you sidestep the human from a traditional position at the top of the hierarchy and let the non-human lead the way?
Marcia Nemer Jentzsch
PhD student
Title of the presentation
Reading methods and map making
What are you investigating and why?
For the past year I have been doing a very material reading method, cutting entire texts word by word and glueing them in another (much bigger) piece of paper. In this new space they move around, break apart and settle into new arrangements that allow me to find new connections and depths between the texts and my research.
What will we experience during your presentation?
I will show the physical material and talk about the method. I hope the discussion that will come from the presentation will allow me to reach a deeper understanding of a practice that is very new to me.
How can your project open up thoughts about ethical issues within your artistic practice?
As I transform the visuality of the texts (but not their content) I wonder to what degree such manipulation can create a friction in relation to authorship. Specially if the object becomes a work on itself and not only a method for diving into the texts I am reading.
NAVET – A centre for Research in Art, Technology and Design
Roberto Bresin
Professor, KTH, NAVET
NAVET is a centre which started to be operative in June 2019, with the overarching goal of becoming a meeting place for research and projects in the intersection of art, technology and design. Its purpose is facilitating and creating opportunities for exchange and research collaboration amongst artists, designers, engineers, humanists, natural and social scientists. NAVET is a collaboration between KTH Royal institute of technology, KMH Royal College of Music, SKH Stockholm University of the Arts, Konstfack, Tekniska – The National Museum of Science and Technology and Scenkonstmuseet – The Swedish Museum of Performing Arts. The centre partners joined in this effort with a vision: NAVET wants to take a leading role in positioning Sweden within the intersectional area “Art, Technology and Design”, with a practical and critical approach that stimulates research, innovation, creativity, and the development of a sustainable society
During my presentation I will illustrate the results and activities so far and plans for the future in the hope to stimulate a discussion with participants.
For more info about NAVET and its activities please visit kth.se/navet
FILM Screening: AFTER WORK
What would a future without work and its central role in shaping our lives and identities look like? As human jobs are increasingly assumed by automation and AI, will universal guaranteed income and unlimited leisure replace employment? Before the 17th century, leisure, not work, was the blessed state, so what would a return to that mean for our minds, values, and ethics?
After Work is part of the artistic research project The Future Through The Present by Erik Gandini, in collaboration with sociologist Roland Paulsen and film professor at HDK Valand Jyoti Mistry.
