About research

Subject specific research areas at SKH include dance, dance pedagogy, circus, acting, dramatic and scenic arts, film and media-based practices, and opera. While supporting and resourcing this diversity of approaches, research at SKH also cultivates a culture of exchange, discourse, and dialogue within and between artistic disciplines and related fields, creating potential new networks and communities of practice. 

Artistic research at SKH works to challenge existing areas of artistic and academic knowledge, consciously and critically expanding the artistic knowledge SKH itself produces and/or relies upon, as well as that of the other disciplines and/or fields in question. Current artistic research at SKH explores situatedness, collectivity, pedagogy, hierarchy, hegemony, archive, decolonization, epistemic violence, queer, black, brown, crip, feminist, indigenous, eco, more than human, magic, death, and care perspectives all considered via the medium of artistic practice. 

Experimentation, speculation, and creation are intrinsic to artistic research, research in which complex artistic, social, and cultural issues are often at work and at stake. Thus, exploring aesthetics in relationship to ethics, and unfolding relations between authorship, ownership, citation, participation, and consent, are key concerns within the SKH artistic research environment.

Through experimental and expanded practices of cooperation, documentation, publication, and exposition, as well as curating a culture of intra-, inter-, and trans-disciplinarity, SKH endeavors to increase the access to, and circulation of, research produced within artistic and academic fields, with a desire to connect to society more, more often, with more complexity and more precision.

See links below for more information:

Visit Stockholm University of the Arts Portal page in RC

Stockholm University of the Arts publications in DIVA

VIS – Nordic Journal for Artistic Research

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Photo: Shauheen Daneshfar. Map to the Future of Circus – Beyond Disciplinary Boundaries, Marie-Andrée Robitaille and Alisan Funk, Research Week 2023.