Research Week 2025

During the week, PhD students and senior researchers at SKH present their artistic research projects. The purpose is to share, experience and exchange the many different approaches to, and perspectives on, the artistic research happening at here. We see Research Week as a way for our SKH community, and our expanded communities, to experience, participate in and contribute to, our burgeoning research culture.

What's new this year is that the heads of subject area and profile professors have curated the program. The four days will focus on sharing the particular research interests and approaches at play in each subject area via a variety of formats and exchanges, with each day ending with an interdisciplinary round table hosted by the profile professors. Set-up for the week:

Tuesday, 21 January: Dance and Dance Pedagogy
Wednesday, 22 January: Opera, Circus, and Acting
Thursday, 23 January: Performing Arts
Friday, 24 January: Film and Media

All presentations are open to the public.

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Schedule of the Week!

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Tuesday 21 January – Studio 16, Brinellvägen 58

Read about the presentations here

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09:00–09:10 
Welcome!
New Vice-Rector of Research Anne Gry Haugland welcomes everyone to Research Week 2025
Who: Anne Gry Haugland, Ninnie Andersson, Chrysa Parkinson, Becky Hilton
What: Unfolding the theme of dance and dance pedagogy day: How we research practice and how we practice research

09:15-10:45
Dance and dance pedagogy PechaKucha
Who: Zoë Poluch, Dalija Acin Thelander, Tove Salmgren, Marie Fahlin, Jennifer Lacey, Caterina Mora, Chrysa Parkinson and Cecilia Roos. Ylva Hofvander Trulsson, Ninnie Andersson och Pernilla Ahlstrand, Ami Skånberg.
What: In this morning session you will speed-meet eleven research projects. PechaKucha is a Japanese story telling method in which each presenter shows and speaks to 20 images for 20 seconds per image.
Read more about PechaKucha

10:45–11:00
Break

11:00–12:00 
Workshop practice sharing sessions Part 1
Who: 

1. Martin Sonderkamp together with Ulrika Berg, Hara Alonso, Jenny Sunesson
   Bodies as Ears-Invitation to Listen
2. Zoë Poluch
   Dancingisdancingfordancingwithdancingthrough
3. Tove Salmgren together with Moa Franzén and Kajsa Wadhia 
   Tender Motor – a machine, a flock, a choir
   
   What: Workshop practice sharing sessions. These are concurrent practice sharings, two groups spend 20 minutes in each space. (Three loctions)

12:00–13:00
Lunch break

13:00–13:40 
Workshop practice sharing sessions Part 2
Who: 

1. Katarina Lundmark and Åsa Johannisson
   Movements, body and AI technique
2. Chrysa Parkinson
   Authorship Ownership and Control: Dancers’ roles and materials

What: Workshop practice sharing continued. These are concurrent practice sharings, two groups spend 20 minutes in each space.
(Two locations)

13:40–13:50 
Break

13:50–15:15
Dance and dance pedagogy World Cafe – Practices we share, practices we share differently and practices we don't share
What: World Cafe, is a discussion format which consists of 3 20-minute rounds of themed conversations held in groups of 4-8 people. The conversations happen concurrently in a shared space with participants changing to a new group every 20 minutes.
Read more about World Cafe

15:15–15:30 
Break

15:30–16:30 
Site Event Encounter round table discussion
Who: Becky Hilton, Gunilla Pettersson Thavfelin, wig and make-up artist and head of subject area Performing Arts, Marcia Nemer, PhD in acting, Max Kleijberg designer, SKH affiliated researcher and post doctoral health care researcher at Karolinska Institute and other guests tbc.
What: Site Event Encounter round table discussion: On hands and touch from a range of research perspectives

16:30–17:00
Soft closing

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Wednesday 22 January – Hugoteatern, Teknikringen 35 

Read about the presentations here 

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09:00–09:05
Welcome!
Who: Kent Olofsson, Alisan Funk, Stacey Sacks, and Lise Lotte Axelsson
What: Unfolding Opera, Circus, and Acting Day: A diversity of subject areas and a diversity of research practices.

09:05–09:25
A theory of applied circus creativity: where we've been and where we're going
Who: Alisan Funk, Assistant professor of circus
What: 15 min presentation + 5 min discussion 

09:30–09:50
How do you become good or the very best?
Who: Jan Rosen
What: 15 min presentation + 5 min discussion

09:55–10:25
Different materials for an other circus + Circus what happens
Who: Christian Vilppola
What: 20 min presentation + 10 min discussion

10:25–10:35
Break

10:35–11:20
Apparatus* as a co-creative agent in circus-making
Who: Tina Koch
What: 30 min presentation + 15 min discussion

11:25–12:10
Red Box – Storytelling in the context of existential sustainability
Who: Åsa Johannisson
What: 30 min presentation + 15 min discussion

12:10–13:05
Lunch break

13:05–13:35
Collaborative and explorative processes in contemporary opera
Who: Maria Lindeman
What: 15 min presentation + 15 min discussion

13:40–14:25
The fairy tale of the actor who (re)found his voice
Who: Karin Rudfeldt
What: 30 min presentation + 15 min discussion

14:30–15:00
What is perceived as a singing tone?
Who: Jaroslaw Kaliski
What: 15 min presentation + 15 min discussion

15:00–15:10
Break

15:10–15:40
Adopting Acting Techniques
Who: Ellen Nyman
What: 15 min presentation + 15 min discussion

15:45–16:05
Affiliated researcher in augmented audio drama
Who: Magnus Bunnskog
What: 15 min presentation + 5 min discussion

16:15–17:00 
Concept and Composition Roundtable Discussion
Who: Kent Olofsson in dialogue with Maria Lindeman (Opera), Åsa Johannisson (Acting), Tina Koch (Circus), Synne Berndt (Performing Arts), and other guests to be confirmed
What: Concept and Composition Roundtable Discussion: The notion of dramaturgy in artistic practices and research today: Significances, applications, and strategies

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Thursday 23 January – TV-studio, Valhallavägen 189

Read about the presentations here

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09:00–09:15
Welcome!
Who: John-Paul Zaccarini and Gunilla Pettersson Thafvelin
What: Welcome to Performing Arts day: Unfolding a diversity of praxis and research emerging from performing arts and exploring sustainability interpreted as an equally broad concept and connected to Agenda 2030. 

09:15–10:30
The Optimism of Nostalgia and the Grey Zone
Who: Anja Susa and Dejan Kaludjerovic
What: 45 min presentation + 30 min discussion.

10:30–10:45
Break

10:45–12:00
Discussion among PhDs in the Subject Area of Performing Arts
Who: Linn-Hilda Lamberg, Johannes Maria Schmidt, Anna Heymowska, Jon Refsdal Moe
What: Discussion among PhDs in the Subject Area of Performing Arts, moderated by Jon Refsdal Moe 

12:00–13:00
Lunch break

13:00–14:30
Artistic work in the Aniara project
Who: Members of the Performing Arts collegium: Johanna Garpe, Anders Duus, Gunilla Pettersson Thafvelin, Camilla Damkjaer
What: Artistic work in the Aniara project: The entire performing arts collegium discusses the experience of implementing the joint research work of teaching via practices of embodiment exercise.
Note: In Swedish.  

14:30–14:45
Break

14:45–16:00
Who: Members of the Performing Arts collegium
What: “Sustainability as an artistic starting point”- round table discussion and Q&A moderated by Johanna Garpe and  Anders Duus
Note: In Swedish and English

16:00–16:15
Break

16:15 – 17:00
Bodily and Vocal Practices roundtable
Who: John-Paul Zaccarini and guests
What: Bodily and Vocal Practices roundtable and discussion including the audience. 
 

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Friday 24 January – TV studio, Valhallavägen 189

Read about the presentations here 

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09:00–09:10
Welcome!
Who: Petra Bauer and Tinna Joné
What: In a world in distress, how can we as makers engage with the world and our surroundings through Art, Technology, and Materiality? What role does storytelling and aesthetics play in a world facing huge social, political, financial, and climate challenges? What are our responsibilities as makers, producers, and distributors? What are the functions and limits of “artistic gestures” in a world of constant crisis (ecological, political, moral, etc.)? How can we as makers engage with the world that is more than human?

The day is divided into three parts:

• Part 1: 09:15–11:50, How to engage with the world through storytelling 
• Part 2: 12:50–14:50, How to engage with more than humans
• Part 3: 15:05–16:45, How to critically engage with AI 

09:15–09:40
“Så länge hjärtat kan slå” The project
Who: Anders Bohman, Linda Janson, Gila Bergquist Ulfung, and Malin Lagerlöf
What: Presentation

09:45–10:10
Darkness Matters
Who: Costanza Julia Bani
What: Presentation

10:15–10:35
Making reality audio: an experimental approach
Who: Brett Ascarelli
What: Presentation

10:40–11:00
The balancing act required when writing a fiction based on true events.
Who: Lotta Erikson
What: Presentation

11:05–11:50
Roundtable conversations part 1
Who: All presenters from part 1
What: Roundtable conversations, moderated by Savas Boyraz. Here it is possible to ask questions and go deeper into the communal themes.

11:50–12:50
Lunch break

12:50–13:10
XR AAA a project about dramaturgy for XR
Who: Tinna Joné, Josephine Rydberg, and Olle Nyman
What: Presentation

13:15–13:35
More-Than-Human-Bees
Who: Marc Johnson
What: Presentation

13:40–14:00
Title: Puppet Hospital: embodiment, augmentation, materiality
Who: Thomas Brennan
What: Presentation

14:05–14:50
Roundtable conversations part 2
Who: All presenters from part 2
What: Roundtable conversations, moderated by Hanna Husberg. Here it is possible to ask questions and go deeper into the communal themes.

14:50–15:05
Break

15:05–15:35
KAIA: The Critical AI Working Group
Who: Paola Torres Nuñez del Prado
What: Presentation

15:40–16:10
AI as an Artistic Tool
Who: Carl Javér and Fredrik Lange
What: Presentation

16:15–16:45
Roundtable conversations part 3
Who: All presenters from part 3
What: Roundtable conversations, moderated by Thomas Brennan. Here it is possible to ask questions and go deeper into the communal themes.

16:50–17:15
Art, Technology, and Materiality round table
Who: Petra Bauer and Tinna Joné
What: Drawing from the presentations, Petra and Tinna summarize and discuss how can we as makers engage with the world and our surroundings through Art, Technology, and Materiality?

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