Research Week 2024
Thursday 18 January – TV-studio, Valhallavägen 189
(Presentation in Swedish)
Johanna Garpe, Professor of Performing Arts, Anders Aare, Assistant Professor of Sound Design, Markus Granqvist, Assistant Professor of Performing Arts with specialisation Set Design, Anna Ljungqvist, Assistant Professor of Production Management for the Performing Arts, Mihra Lindblom, Assistant Professor of Make-up and Wig Design, Anders Duus, Assistant Professor of Dramatic Writing
Title of the presentation
Performing Arts Production with Reduced Environmental Impact
What are you investigating and why?
Climate sustainable practices in Performing Arts Production across all specializations taught by the Performing Arts Unit.The reason for the investigation is the ongoing climate crisis, which demands a transition in how we make theatre today and how to educate in performing arts.
What will we experience during your presentation?
Five different presentations from the joint departmental research project.
How can your project open up thoughts about ethical issues within your artistic practice?
How to deal with performing arts production and education in times of climate crisis.
Costanza Julia Bani
Assistant Professor of Film Production
Title of the presentation
Circadia
What are you investigating and why?
I am investigating environmental issues, specifically sound and light pollution, and what forms are appropriate and most involving to have an impact in the distribution phase. Because I am interested in outreach and invest the community with the outcome of artistic research, when it can have a societal and political relevance and influence.
What will we experience during your presentation?
I'll present the results of what I have done so far for the research project - possibly together with one or two of my colleagues.
How can your project open up thoughts about ethical issues within your artistic practice?
The project will open up questions and concerns on how we behave towards our environment and ethical issues around governance: who does nature belong to? who can and is entitled decide upon environment?
Erik Gandini
Professor in documentary film
Roland Paulsen, labor sociologist
Title of the presentation
The Future Through the Present – final results and dissemination plans
What are you investigating and why?
Delving into the intricate fabric of labor, 'The Future Through The Present' investigates the evolving work landscape through the lens of the creative documentary After Work (screened 5pm on Wednesday 17th). Our purpose is twofold: to spark engaging conversations about the future of work and to bridge the realms of art and societal change. By capturing human scenarios in the present, we aim to shape a narrative that resonates and inspires, fostering a deeper understanding of the intersections between work, creativity, and our collective destiny.
What will we experience during your presentation?
Unveiling the future of labor, we ask: can our project transcend academic boundaries, becoming a driving force in disseminating artistic research to wider audiences
How can your project open up thoughts about ethical issues within your artistic practice?
Dealing with real people in the real world, few artistic expressions today are subjected to ethical expectations as creative documentaries. Discussing activities spanning from speculation to listening, this presentation will engage with important aspects of moving images as research.
Carolina Jinde
Assistant professor of Film and Media, PhD alumni
Title of the presentation
Listening to a process
What are you investigating and why?
Carolina Jinde, Assistant Professor of sound in Film and Media, presents enhear, a term, concept and practice coined in the context of her doctoral thesis of the same name. She proposes enhear, whether as tool, method, principle, perspective, or learning framework, as a means toward developing, deepening, and enriching collaborative artistic processes adjacent to and within her field.
What will we experience during your presentation?
Carolina Jinde presents enhear from the perspective of her current position as assistant professor in sound. She invites you to encounter existence from a listening perspective and to consider how modes of production efficiency and output are expressions of power relations and to reflect upon how these relations shape creative processes. During the presentation, Jinde will share work from her practice both as a sound creator and as a teacher.
How can your project open up thoughts about ethical issues within your artistic practice?
Enhear is a site for collaboration; a tool for developing an idea together and a practice of attending, with awareness and sensitivity, to the present time, space and situation. It suggests an approach to the world that is comprehensively aural, bringing awareness to the shared-ness of space and offering a kind of sensorial sanctuary –– away from the incessant production and consumption of images.
(Presentation in Swedish)
Niklas Hald
Assistant professor
Anders Aare, Assistant professor
Title of the presentation
The soundscape of a theatrical event – final presentation
What are you investigating and why?
The starting point has been to explore how actors and sound designers can meet in a work outside the traditional framework by challenging our respective processes and needs. Often the sound designer and actor meet too late in the production for an open exploratory work to take place. Our intention is to see what happens if we are the ones who start the whole process.
What will we experience during your presentation?
In this final report, we will present our journey from application to now via workshops and reflective writing - the challenges we have faced and identified, what we have and have not achieved and where we are today.
How can your project open up thoughts about ethical issues within your artistic practice?
In terms of ethical considerations, we have shared responsibility for the entire project and continuously discussed and checked with each other. No outsiders have participated in our work.
Anders Larsson, Assistant lecturer of Technical Theatre
Chris Van Goethem, Docent
Title of the presentation
Erasmus+ a project focused to the CANON of TECHNICAL THEATRE HISTORY
What are you investigating and why?
The Erasmus+ partnership project CANON ran from 2019 to 2022 and aimed to raise awareness of the history and heritage of technical theatre. What do we know about it? And is it the same in all European countries? These and other questions were explored by teachers and students from universities in Belgium, Czech Republic, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden, UK, Germany, Italy and Spain.
What will we experience during your presentation?
During the presentation, we will show the teaching tools "100 stories of theatre technology" and the "Cookbook for technical theatre lessons" developed by the Erasmus+ project. These will also be available for free download. If you're lucky, you might get to play the game "Anno Teatri" or why not build a gingerbread theatre?
How can your project open up thoughts about ethical issues within your artistic practice?
At a time when the world is beginning to erect new walls between cultures, this project has shown how theatre technology has historically crossed formal and informal boundaries as it has been applied in the most diverse performing arts contexts. This project has aimed to lay the foundations for tools that will be useful to all those who want to continue to break boundaries with technical theatre.
(Presentation in Swedish)
Karin Rudfeldt
Lecturer of voice and speech
Title of the presentation
The fairy tale of voice and speech and acting
What are you investigating and why?
I am researching how I can formulate my long practical knowledge as a teacher in voice and speech and musician and poet. I have found out that by choosing the form by a fairy tale, then I have access to artistic nerve that is with me in lesson moments. I have applied and been granted funding for publishing.
What will we experience during your presentation?
I will read some chapters from the Fairy tale I am working on.
Perhaps I will sing some of my songs, based on what I explore in the terms of voice and speech.
How can your project open up thoughts about ethical issues within your artistic practice?
Ethics are fundamental in the meeting with students. It is a prerequisite for creating a security room for our work. The interesting thing about writing in the form of a fairy tale is that it gives me a freedom from responsibility and wisdom. Playing opens for seriousness.
VIS – Nordic Journal for Artistic Research – expositions and performance
At: 16.45–17.15
We have invited researchers from SKH to give 5-minute presentations of their published expositions in various issues of the digital journal VIS – Nordic Journal for Artistic Research. Join us for an inspiring and intense insight into different artistic research projects!
Expositions:
Luxurious Migrant // Performing Whiteness by Stacey Sacks, Acting Head of Subject Area Acting, PhD Alumni
The Lost and found Project: Imagineering Fragmedialities by Jenny Sunesson, Assistant Professor of Sonic Practice
Studio Conversations by Chrysa Parkinson, Head of subject area Dance, Professor of Dance
In Circles Leading on by Andreas Berchtold, PhD student in Dance, Assistant Professor of Folk Dance
Death to the Welfare State: an Exposition on Political discourse and Artistic Collaboration by Kent Olofsson, Professor of Performing Arts for the profile area Concept and Composition (Co-author: Jörgen Dahlqvist)
Performance:
Paola Torres Nuñez Del Prado, PhD student in Film and Media, will do a sound performance related to her exposition The Sonified Textiles Within the Text(il)ura Performance
About VIS
VIS is a digital journal about artistic research, operated by Stockholm University of the Arts (SKH) and the Norwegian Artistic Research Programme (part of Norwegian Directorate for Higher Education and Skills). VIS holds an open call for every issue. Up to seven expositions are selected by the Editorial Committee for entry into the collaborative peer-review process. All the expositions featured in the journal are made in Research Catalogue. VIS website: https://www.en.visjournal.nu/
