Research Week 2025
Wednesday 22 January – Hugoteatern, Teknikringen 35
A theory of applied circus creativity: where we've been and where we're going
Alisan Funk, Assistant professor of circus
What are you investigating and what will we experience during your presentation?
In this conference presentation I describe my Theory of Applied Circus Creativity distilled from my doctoral research into creativity and circus. I will focus on key findings and their implications for the fields of circus education, arts education and creativity education. The presentation will end with potential next steps for research using both scientific and artistic methodologies.
Presentation language
English
How do you become good or the very best?
Jan Rosén, Senior Lector in Circus
What are you investigating and what will we experience during your presentation?
I have been looking into the area of excellence. How can you be the best at what you do, what do you need and what can motivate you?
Presentation language
English
Different material other circus + Circus what happens
Christian Vilppola, Assistant professor
What are you investigating and what will we experience during your presentation?
What is the impact of building a trapeze with different opportunities? How does that impact the practice of circus? While circus is happening, what is it evoking?
Presentation language
English
Apparatus* as a co-creative agent in circus-making
Tina Koch, Professor of Circus, Head of the master’s programme in Contemporary Circus Arts
What are you investigating and what will we experience during your presentation?
I am investigating what apparatus design ‘does’ as an active, co-creative agent of circus performance and its potential as a catalyst for creation.
I’m doing this from a particular perspective to research circus, which asks what circus already ‘does’, what is already inherent in what we do and what we may gain when we start from here*Apparatus is widely used in the English-speaking circus field to refer to the equipment, objects, or structures employed as essential components of circus performer’s artistic practice.
Presentation language
English
Red Box – Storytelling in the context of existential sustainability
Åsa Johannisson, Assistant Professor Mime Acting
What are you investigating and what will we experience during your presentation?
The project explores storytelling in the context of existential sustainability and introduces Red Box as a focal point for dramaturgical experimentation and method development. Time is of the essence. The past serves as an anchor and starting point in the exploration of possible futures. Knowledge is developed through dialogue between art and science.
Presentation language
English
Collaborative and explorative processes in contemporary opera
Maria Helena Lindeman, PhD student in opera
What are you investigating and what will we experience during your presentation?
This presentation examines the role of collaboration in the creation of contemporary opera, focusing on interdisciplinary and explorative processes. Specifically, it addresses the dynamics between the director/facilitator and the collaborators, emphasizing non-hierarchical structures and collective creativity.
Presentation language
English
Sagan om skådespelaren som (åter)fann sin röst/ The fairy tale of the actor who (re)found his voice
Karin Rudfeldt, Lecturer in voice and speech
What are you investigating and what will we experience during your presentation?
Why does what we know about language and breathing in everyday conversation, disappear in the work of creating drama? It is almost unconscious but how could we develop our awareness of this? In my artistic research fairy tale, an actor and an old woman take a walk in a forest populated by strange creatures who unfold connections between voice, speech and acting.
Presentation language
Svenska
What is perceived as a singing tone?
Jaroslaw Jan Kaliski, Assistant professor of Musical Performance in Opera
What are you investigating and what will we experience during your presentation?
How can an illusion of a singing tone be created on an instrument that is not a human voice? In my artistic experiments I use piano - a stringed keyboard instrument with the strings struck by wooden hammers - as a medium for recreating what in singing is achieved through various forms of vocal expression, such as the articulation of language sounds or a specific way of breathing, or phrasing.
Presentation language
English
Adopting Acting Techniques
Ellen Nyman, PhD student in Acting
What are you investigating and what will we experience during your presentation?
This presentation employs audio drama as a methodology and medium to gain insight into the multifaceted aspects of performance. My work investigates the parallels between adaptation and the acting techniques that are commonly used, such as when creating a role. At the nexus of role and identity, the actor must navigate the search for self and the evolution of their profession.
Presentation language
The radio play is in Swedish, but there is translation and the conversation can be in English
“The augmented radio play”, a research project in the field of musical drama funded by the Bernadotte Program
Magnus Bunnskog, Affiliated researcher in augmented audio drama
What are you investigating and what will we experience during your presentation?
The research project “Anpassningen” is an augmented audio drama. Where the established idea in composed theater is often score-based, I am interested in using compositional principles drawn from electroacoustic music and live electronics. In this presentation I will share a selection of the collected material created via individual sessions with the musicians, singers and actors of the musical groups KammarensembleN and Vokalharmonin.
Presentation language
Svenska
