Newsletter from The Research School at the Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts.
The Research School is run by the three institutions Academy of Music and Drama, HDK - School of Design and Crafts, and Valand Academy.
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| Disputationer / Doctoral Defences | Wednesday, 16th December, 2015 Lisa Tan, Fine Arts, Valand Academy
Title: For every word has its own shadow
Time: There will be two screening times in Bio Valand for the dissertation works: 9:30-10:45 and
10:45-12:00, Public defence at 13:00
Venue: Bio Valand and Glashuset, Valand Academy
There will also be a screening of the films on Tuesday night, 15th December from 18:00-19:15 in Bio Valand. More information to follow. Thursday, 17th December, 2015 Elke Marhöfer, Fine Arts, Valand Academy
Title: Ambiguity of culture as object for description andcritique
Time: Film screening 10:00 - 12:00, public defence at 13:30
Venue: SF Bio Göta 3, Götaplatsen, and Glashuset, Valand Academy.
More information to follow. |
| Seminars, workshops and courses | | DOCTORAL SEMINARS
Normally the texts are uploaded in the internal learning platform GUL: “Etappseminarier för doktorander”.
If you don't have access to GUL contact Anna Frisk. Thursday, 15th October, 13:00 – 16:00
End seminar for licentiate: Birgitta Nordström, Crafts, HDK
Title: I ritens rum – om mötet mellan tyg och människa.
Discussant: Anneli Palmsköld, PhD and lecturer at the Department of Conservation,
University of Gothenburg.
Venue: Room 310, HDK.
Birgitta's text will be available shortly in GUL: Etappseminarier för doktorander. This seminar will be in Swedish. Wednesday, 18th November, 13:00
25% seminar: Imri Sandström, Literary composition, poetry and prose, Valand Academy
Discussant: Kristina Hagström-Ståhl, new PARSE professor at HSM
Venue: To be confirmed Tuesday, 15th December, 13:00 – 16:00
End seminar for licentiate: Mirjana Vukoja, Design
Title: Jag ser inte, jag förstår inte – en berättelse om seende
Discussant: Open
Venue: Röhsska Museum. This seminar will be in Swedish. |
| Mapping the field:
Research School’s Symposium for the faculty's doctoral students and supervisors The theme of the two-day symposium October 12-13 is “Mapping the Field” and it can be seen as an extension of the workshop in September. Among the speakers are the writers of the theses we were examining in the workshop: Cecilia Björck, Tina Carlsson and Andreas Gedin, and the key note speakers are Marta Edling and Simon Sheik. Sign up by sending an e-mail to Anna Frisk. Time: Monday, 12th October – Tuesday, 13th October
Venue: Glashuset, Valand Academy (entrance from Chalmersgatan 4)
View detailed schedule here. |
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| Scholarships |  | Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme 2016/17
Initial application deadline: Tuesday, December 1, 2015 at 12:00 noon Hong Kong time The Research Grants Council of Hong Kong is launching the seventh round of the Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme. The Scheme aims to attract top international students to pursue their PhD studies in Hong Kong´s World-Class research institutions. The Fellowship provides a monthly stipend of 2600 USD and a conference and research related travel allowance for a period of three years and is offered in a variety ofdisciplines. More than 230 fellowships will be awarded for PhD studies commencing in the 2016/17 academic year. Applications are made at the Research Grants Council's website for the Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme. More information about the procedure and application CURRENT SCHOLARSHIPS AND GRANTS
Here you can find a list of scholarships and grants offered by the Univesity of Gothenburg for different categories of applicants in all disciplines. The list is sorted by the application deadline. http://www.gu.se/forskning/stipendier/aktuellastipendier/ |
| Call for submissions and proposals |  The Swedish Research Council's symposium on artistic research 2015
Lund University's faculty of arts, Malmö
November 25 - 26, 2015
Submission deadline: Monday, October 5, 2015 There is still opportunity to submit abstracts/ proposals for workshops/events to the Swedish Research Council's symposium on artistic research 2015. The theme of the conference is the Art University – political dream or broadened future for art? Submit abstracts/proposals no later than 15 September. The symposium will be held on November 25 and 26 at Lund University's faculty of arts, Malmö.
In addition to the theme, which will be approached through panel debates, lectures and discussions, the symposium will also demonstrate the width and depth of contemporary artistic research.
Abstracts/proposals should be submitted to Jan Kaila, scientific advisor in artistic research at the Swedish Research Council.
Conference languages are English and the Scandinavian languages.
More information and submission guidelines here. | | Art Approaching Science and Religion
Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland
May 11 - 13, 2016
Submission deadline: Sunday, November 15, 2015 The symposium aims at bringing together the fields of art, science and religion. How can science and religion be explored from the perspective of the arts? Themes to be discussed will unwind from and be elaborated on contemporary notions of beauty, ornament, and public art. Proposals are welcome on the interconnectedness of art, science and religion, including (but not restricted to) the following themes: Truth claims in philosophy, art, science, and religion. Art criticism, art history, and artist research. Commerce and communication. Technology and tradition. Artefacts in science and religion. Power and politics of beauty. Arranged by: AmosLAB/Amos Anderson Laboratory for Artful Making and The Donner Institute for Research in Religious and Cultural History More information and submission guidelines here. |
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| News and upcoming events | Lois Keidan: Framing Live Art
Honorary Doctorate Lecture 2015
Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts
The Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts at Gothenburg University has conferred Lois Keidan, Director of the Live Art Development Agency, with an honorary Doctorate of the Arts. Join us for an open lecture presentation by Lois Keidan and discussion moderated by Jason E. Bowman, MFA: Fine Art Programme Leader at Valand Academy followed by an informal mingle. Lois Keidan will give an illustrated presentation on the work of the Live Art Development Agency (UK) looking at the methodologies, strategies, partnerships and practices that the organization has developed since 1999 to encourage new ways of working with, and thinking about, contemporary performance and to support those who make, watch, research, study, teach, produce, present and write about Live Art internationally. Time: Thursday, October 15, 19.00-20.30
Venue: Glashuset, Valand Academy, entrance from Chalmersgatan 4 | |  Portrait of Lois Keidan © Manuel Vason |
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| Two artistic research projects at the University of Gothenburg receive grants from the Swedish Research Council |  HSM awarded 3.7 million for research project
The Academy of Music and Drama (HSM) was awarded 3,750 000 kronor for the research project "Creative keyboards: "Old" Instruments with New Affordances" by the Swedish Research Council this year. The project which will run from 2016 to 2018 is led by Joel Speerstra, PhD, researcher and senior lecturer at HSM. For well over a hundred years now, most classical music instruments have been highly standardized. Development still happens in small increments, and artistic research has focused on the mastery of existing instruments that offer few surprises in their current forms. Will new or unusual keyboard instruments challenge, foster, and develop creativity? This project will create a research inquiry to find new ways to describe what happens from the moment a “new” keyboard instrument is designed until highly functioning musicians start using it in ways that may never have been intended by the designers. | |  Kristina Fridh, research coordinator at HDK HDK receives 4.9 million for research project on textile architecture The project “Urban materiality – towards New Collaborations in Textile and Architectural Design" was granted 4,950,000 sek for 2016-2018. The aim of the project is to build a new platform for cooperation in textile architecture within a joint research environment. What is then textile architecture? By examining what the concept textile architecture means to different groups of professional designers, architects, and researchers, the project aims to broaden and deepen the perspectives on textile architecture.To explore and develop approaches to and practices in textile architecture, the participants in the project will carry out experiments and laboratory work to form and test two- and three-dimensional structures for urban environments. The applicants of the project are Kristina Fridh, PhD, researcher and research coordinator at HDK - School of Design and Crafts, University of Gothenburg (project leader), Margareta Zetterblom, PhD, Researcher / Lecturer, Swedish School of Textiles (University of Borås) and Paula Femenias, associate professor, researcher, Department of Architecture, Chalmers. More information about the project here |
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|  | Exhibition: AND AGAIN SHIFTS / OCH IGEN SKIFTEN The exhibition AND AGAIN SHIFTS / OCH IGEN SKIFTEN is part of Imri Sandström’s artistic research project Howe Across Reading – Performing the Past which is an investigation into the histories and languages of New England in the north east of USA and Västerbotten in the north of Sweden, with and through the writings of poet and literary scholar Susan Howe. The exhibition presents, amplifies and scrutinizes selected areas within the research process. Imri Sandström's research is conducted at The Valand Academy, Gothenburg University and is financed by The Swedish Research Council. The exhibition is curated by Woodpecker Projects and Imri Sandström. More information here. Exhibition period: Saturday, September 26 - Saturday, October 17, 2015
Venue: IAC, Bergsgatan 29, 214 22 Malmö
Opening hours: Wednesday–Friday 14–17, Saturday and Sunday 11–14
Events:
Sunday, October 4, 16:00: Readings and conversation between Imri Sandström and poet David Vikgren.
Tuesday, October 6, 16:00: Online writing session with ABS (Arnell, Backström, Sandström)
Saturday, Oct 17, 19:00 - 12:00: Finissage with book release of Linnéa Eriksson’s Smetar av sig – Att läsa med Susan Howe.
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| Bruno Faria 75% seminar at
Malmö Academy of Music Flutist and doctoral candidate Bruno Faria will presents his artistic research project in a 75% seminar at Malmö Academy of Music.
Title: Being addressed through music indeterminacy: Artistic-hermeneutical reflections upon the practice of Soundpainting from the perspective of a classically trained musician
Opponent: Dr. Helen Julia Minors
Supervisors: Anders Ljungar-Chapelon and Antonio Carlos Guimarães Time: Wednesday, 7 October, 13.00 – 16.00
Venue: Liljeforssalen, Malmö Academy of Music, Ystadvägen 25, Malmö
More information here. | |  Photo by Sabine Vogel |
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|  Malin Arnell, Hey you, your pussy stinks (2015), text piece, part of Fia Backström at the Artist's Institute, New York | PhD Candidate Malin Arnell's final seminar, Stockholm University of Arts During this seminar, two different choreographic practices will be shared as it engages two specific works: one has been developed together with Åsa Elzén within YES! Association/Föreningen JA!; in the other, artistic creation/authority becomes dislocated as my/the/our body pursues embodied affinities, and a state of becoming-with. Both practices engage the conditions of work/labour and participation from a posthumanist and material-semiotic understanding of knowledge and knowledge production practices.
Respondent: Annette Arlander
Supervisors: Anna Koch and Hanna Hallgren
Time: Monday, October 12, 11am-4:30pm, October 12
Venue: Studio 16/Scenen, DOCH, Brinellvägen 58, subway station Tekniska Högskolan
Registration is required for this event. The seminar is free and the registration is binding.
More information on registration and detailed schedule here. |
|  | | Reporting of KU project: Täby – Jag började skriva en bok som hette Mordet på Palme Pelle Kronestedt’s photo book Täby – Jag började skriva en bok som hette Mordet på Palme (Täby - I started writing a book called the murder of Palme) was released at the photo book festival Fotobok Gbg 15 on 24th September at Gallery A-Venue in Gothenburg. The book is about how reality, the self and the image of the same, change from adolescence to middle age. It is based on the life stories set in the Stockholm suburb of Täby during the late 1980s and today.
Pelle Kronestedt is a lecturer in photography at the Valand Academy. He graduated from the School of Photography in 1992. Täby – Jag började skriva en bok som hette Mordet på Palme is an artistic development project conducted at Valand Academy. Kronestedt will present his book in Stockholm and Täby at the following times. Time: Friday, October 9, 17:00 - 19:00
Venue: Book Store Konst-ig, Åsögatan 124, Stockholm Time: Saturday, October 10, 13:00 - 15:00
Venue: Täby bibliotek, Biblioteksgången 13, Täby |
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| Symposium: WATCHED! Surveillance Art & Photography in Europe post 9/11 How can art and visual theory contribute to the understanding of our current surveillance society? During a two-day public research symposium, artists and scholars will present work on surveillance and its relation to representation, migration, community and control.
Speakers include Peter Weibel, Hille Koskela, Marco Poloni, Shoshana Magnet, Jason Bowman, Ann-Sofi Sidén and Kari Andén-Papadopoulus. The symposium is co-organized by Valand Academy of Arts and the Hasselblad Foundation.
Time: Wednesday, October 7 – Thursday, October 8, 2015
Venue: Glashuset, Valand Academy
More information here. | | Two-day seminar: Materiality with museums, archives, cities and households in local, global and future perspectives The Heritage Academy and the Critical Heritage Studies at the University of Gothenburg welcome you to a two day seminar discussing materiality within museums, archives, cities and house- holds in local, global and future perspectives. The first day will be presented in Swedish and the second in English. The venue for both days will be the Museum of World Culture in Gothenburg. People are welcome to sign up for one of the days or both. Notification is to be made to Anita.synnestvedt@archaeology.gu.se no later than Wednesday, 7th October.
Time: Wednesday, October 14 - Thursday, October 15, 2015
Venue: Museum of World Culture, Södra Vägen 54, Gothenburg
More information here. |
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| Lecture: The good academy - a lecture by Zahra Bayati on racism and antiracism in academia
Zahra Bayati is a senior lecturer at the Department of Education, Communication and Learning at the University of Gothenburg. She earned her PhD in 2014 with the acclaimed dissertation titled ”the Other” in teacher education – A study of the racialized Swedish student’s conditions in the era of globalization.
The lecture is organized in cooperation with the profile area Gender - Culture and Politics at the Department of Cultural Sciences. The seminar series Vitkrit is a newly established collaboration between three departments at the Humanistic Faculty and is held once per semester. For further questions please contact Mia Eriksson via e-mail: mia.eriksson@gu.se. Time: Monday, October 12, 15-17
Venue: Vera Sandberg Allé 8, room 2427B, Department of Cultural Sciences, University of Gothenburg
This lecture will be in Swedish. | | FSL Seminar: ARKEOLOGI & INTERPRETATION - att aktualisera det avlägset förflutna Fria seminariet i litterär kritik (FSL) is jointly organizing a three day seminar on 'Archaeology & Interpretation - att aktualisera det avlägset förflutna' with the Graduate School in Language and Culture in Europe at Linköping University and Norrköpings Konstmuseum.
Contributors include Johan Celander, Carin Franzén, Lars Jonsson, Helena Persson, Anna-Lena Renqvist, Ellen Söderblom Saarla, Lars-Håkan Svensson, Johanna Vernqvist and Magnus William-Olsson. FSL organizes seminars on critique, art and knowledge that unlike any other. Their starting point in the ancient symposium - conversations, experiences, art, party, dance and food. Time: Tues., October 15 - Thurs., October 17
Venue: Rum D34, Linköpings universitet, D-huset; Hörsal ”Harlekinen”, Norrköpings konstmuseum
Registration and detailed schedule here.
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| GIBCA TALKS with Athena Farrokhzad Welcome to a presentaion by poet, translator and playwright Athena Farrokhzad. Farrokhzad grew up in Hammarkullen and Askim in Gothenburg and now lives in Stockholm. She will be sharing her personal reflections around the ongoing Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art exhibition "A story within a story..." The next GIBCA TALKS features Joanna Rubin Dranger, author, illustrator and professor at Konstfack, Stockholm.
Time: Wednesday, October 21, 18:00 - 19:30
Venue: Hasselblad Center, Götaplatsen, Gothenburg
Visit GIBCA website | | Vision Seminar: Research + Education = Truth Vision 2020 emphasises on the importance of complete academic environments based on the interaction between research and education. This means that all education should be linked to research and all research related to education. But what do we mean by research-related education or training-related research? The vision seminar will be based on this theme with presentations from different speakers.
Time: Wednesday, October 21, 13.00-16.00
Venue: Arvid Carlsson-salen, Academicum, Medicinaregatan 3, Gothenburg
Register here. |
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| Making / Narratives : The Design Lecture Series Autumn 2015 at HDK The following schedule is for October. For further information and full schedule please contact Henric Benesch or view HDK calendar. |  Julijonas Urbonas, photo by Aistė Valiūtė and Daumantas Plechavičius | Julijonas Urbonas
Julijonas Urbonas is an artist, designer, researcher, engineer, writer, Vice-Rector for Art at the Vilnius Academy of Arts in Vilnius, and PhD at the RCALondon with a particular focus on 'gravitational aesthetics'.His has work has been exhibited internationally and received many awards such Prix Ars Electronica 2010, and can be found in private and museum collections such as the permanent collection of the Centre for Art and Media Karlsruhe (ZKM).Beside his aforementioned research interests/activities, he also explores — through making, experimenting, and writing — experimental aesthetics of technologies and complex dialogues of art/design/technologies/ philosophy/science and give lectures on these topics. More information here. Time: Friday, October 9, 13:00
Venue: Stora Hörsalen, HDK – School of Design and Crafts, Kristinelundsgatan 6
This lecture is in English.
Erling Björgvinsson
From the fall 2015 Erling Björgvinsson is Professor in Design at HDK - one of three PARSE-professors at the Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts. His research area is in design methodology and specifically on collaborative and participatory design-lead research where academics, professionals, and citizens co-produce. He's running the the art- and design-lead research project City Fables that focuses on the relationship between space and narratives as well as what it can mean to work in creative group processes across art and design genres and together with citizens in collective making.
More information here.
Time: Friday, October 9, 15:00
Venue: Stora Hörsalen, HDK – School of Design and Crafts, Kristinelundsgatan 6
This lecture is in English. |
|  | Child Culture Conference: Growing with design HDK - School of Design and Crafts at University of Gothenburg is hosting a two-day conference titled 'Growing With Design', which is rooted in the school's unique master's program in Child Culture Design.
'Growing With Design' is an unique opportunity to hear leading researchers, designers, artists and more within the important field of child culture design; as they share their ideas, ask questions and give answers, voice disagreements, and express their curiosity and playfulness. The two days of lectures will explore, discuss, learn and play around interesting questions, theories and thoughts connected to this exciting subject. The conference speakers include John Wall, Annelies Vaneycken, Suzanne Osten, Helen & Hard, Susanne Hofmann from Die Baupiloten Architektur, Nils Norman and others. Time: Wednesay, October 14 - Thursday, October 15, 2015
Venue: Kristinelundsgatan 6–8, HDK – School of Design and Crafts, Gothenburg
Registration deadline: Thursday, October 1. Contact email: growing@hdk.gu.se
Registration and detailed program schedule here.
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|  | | The 1st PARSE Biennial Research Conference on TIME The first biennial PARSE conference at the Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts, University of Gothenburg, Sweden November 4-6, 2015 takes as its point of departure the question of TIME. Confirmed Keynote Speakers are: Simonetta Carbonaro, Simon Critchley, Coco Fusco, Bruno Latour, Jalal Toufic
Time: Wednesday, 4th November - Friday, 6th November, 2015
Venue: Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
More information about Conference Organization and Registration here.
Link to PARSE. |
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