Newsletter from The Research School at the Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts.
The Research School is run by the three departments Academy of Music and Drama, HDK - Academy of Design and Crafts, and Valand Academy.
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| Upcoming public defences | Thursday, 2nd June, 2016, 13:00 Thomas Laurien,Design, HDK - Academy of Design and Crafts
Title: Händelser på ytan - shibori som kunskapande rörelse
Opponent:Cilla Robach, Vice-chancellor, Beckmans Designhögskola
Venue: HDK, Room 350
The dissertation can be viewed online here. |
| Seminars, workshops and courses | Link to the Research School's webpage and calendar 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. |
| | | Tuesday, 7th June, 9.30 - 12.00
25%-seminar: Nicolas Cheng, Crafts, Academy of Design and Crafts
Title: The space of craft and the crafting of spaces (agency, materiality and practice)
Discussant: Andrea Phillips, PARSE professor at Valand Academy
Venue: Sal 310, HDK, Kristinelundsgatan 6-8
This seminar will be held in English. Tuesday, 7th June, 14:00
25%-seminar: Uwe Steinmetz, Musical Performance and Interpretation, Academy of Music and Drama
Discussant: Johannes Landgren, Professor of organ and improvisation, Academy of Music and Drama
Uwe will perform three new liturgical compositions with Eva Kruse (Double Bass) and Christian Jormin (Piano).
Time: Tuesday, June 7, 14:00
Venue: Artisten, Fågelsången 1, Room A503 Wednesday, 14th September, 13:00 - 16:00
50%-seminar: Marina Cyrino, Musical Performance and Interpretation, Academy of Music and Drama
Discussant: Kristina Hagström-Ståhl, PARSE professor at HSM
Time: Wednesday, September 14, 13:00 - 16:00
Venue: To be announced.
This seminar will be held in English. |
| Scholarships and grants | Anna Ahrenbergs Grez-sur-Loing stipendium
Deadline: Wednesday, 15 June
The Anna Ahrenbergs Grez-sur-Loing stipend promotes artistic or scientific development of professional artists, writers, musicians, composers and researchers in Gothenburg. In 2016, the stipend is targeted at writers. Applications should be made between Sunday, 1 May and Wednesday, 15 June. More information and application details here. | 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 proposals |  | Tenderflix 2016 - International film and video competition
Submission deadline: Sunday, July 10
Tenderflix is an international film and video competition open to all moving image works. In its 9th year in 2016 the theme for submitting to Tenderflix is Better Living. Originally related to the design field, this notion genuinely echoes a certain, wider strive to imagine better structures for building all aspects of our life—most importantly in terms of aesthetics, economics and social relations. Read submission guidelines here.
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| Call for conference and publication: TRADERS |  | Conference: Mediations
Extended submission deadline: Wednesday, June 15
TRADERS - ‘Training Art and Design Researchers for Participation in Public Space’ – is a three year EU Marie Curie research project examining different dimensions and roles of participation in public space. In the project’s closing conference TRADERS invites participants to join them in exchanging experiences and knowledge in the field of participation in art and design. More information here. Publication: Co-design and the Public realm
Submission deadline: Friday, September 30
TRADERS invites submissions to their special issue ‘Co-design and the Public realm’, which will be published in “CoDesign. International Journal of CoCreation in Design and the Arts“. Some of the questions the issue attempts to address are: What are the consequences, tensions and challenges of co-design engaging with the public realm when that realm is increasingly entangled with private forces? What concepts, frameworks, tools, methods are used and what values are pursued to answer these challenges? More information here. |
| News | Omkonst reviews Mårten Medbo's dissertation exhibition Mårten Medbo's dissertation exhibition 'Slutkommenter (Endnote)' currently ongoing at Galleri Thomassen in Gothenburg was reviewed by Omkonst. Medbo is a doctoral student in Crafts at HDK-Academy of Design and Crafts. The exhibition opened on May 19 and will continue until June 5, 2016. Read review here (in swedish). | |  |
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| Upcoming and ongoing events |  | Annica Karlsson Rixon, dissertation exhibition: State of Mind - Queer Lives in Russia
State of Mind - Queer lives in Russia shows two important works higlighting life conditions for lesbians and bisexual woman living in Russia: the installation State of Mind (2006-2008) by the artists Annica Karlsson Rixon and Anna Viola Hallberg, and a selection from Karlsson Rixon's photographic series At the Time of the Third Reading (2013). The exhibition is part of Annica Karlsson Rixon's PhD dissertation in Photography at Valand Academy and also part of West Pride 2016. A seminar and a lecture will also be hosted in conjuction with the exhibition: 'Queer Art in Russia' and 'The Making of a Soviet Transmasculinity'. More information and detailed schedule of events here.
Vernissage: Wednesday, June 8, 17:00 - 20:00
Venue: Världskulturmuseet, Södra Vägen 54, Göteborg |
| Public Defence at Malmö Academy of Music PhD student Bruno Faria will defend his PhD thesis in Music on June 3. There will be a public performance of his work on June 2.
Title: Exercising musicianship anew throughsoundpainting: Speaking music throughsound gestures
Opponent: Prof. Dr. Paulo de Assis. ERC Principal Investigator and Orpheus Institute Research Fellow
Time: Friday, June 3, 10.00
Venue: Inter Arts Center, Red room, Bergsgatan 29, Malmö. Entry code: 2316
The dissertation can be viewed online here.
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|  Open research seminars at Stockholm University of the Arts PhD Candidate Nils Claesson's 80 % seminar
Title: To enter the dragon – to enter a film
Nils Claesson's PhD project develops around the work of turning August Strindberg's The Ghost Sonata into an animated fabel. Into it's own world.
Opponents: Harald Stjerne, Annika Wik
Time: Tuesday, June 14, 10:00 – 17:00
Venue: SADA, Valhallavägen 189, Stockholm
More information here | | PhD Candidate Carina Reich's 50 % seminar Title: Just my imagination III
Just my imagination III, is the third part of four planned stage expositions of Carina Reich's doctoral project The absent becoming present.
Opponents: Annelie Gardell and Katarina Lion
Time: Wednesday, June 15, 13:00 – 16:00
Place: T-Three, T-house, SADA, Valhallavägen 193, Stockholm. More information here. |
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|  WATCHED! Surveillance, Art and Photography
The ongoing exhibition Watched! Surveillance, Art and Photography at the Hasselblad Center, Göteborg, reflects on the complexities of contemporary surveillance, with a specific attention to photography. More information here. | |  West Pride 2016
University of Gothenburg will be hosting a number of lectures and discussions with researchers from the university as part of West Pride in Gothenburg from June 8 - 12. More information on events hosted by the University here. Read more about West Pride here. | |  Göteborg Dance & Theatre Festival
The Gothenburg Dance and Theatre Festival is an international performing arts festival taking place for ten days in August, in the great city of Gothenburg with surroundings.
View full schedule here. |
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|  | What are digital practices? Despite the frequent use of the concept, it is in many cases not clear what makes practices digital, or what the specificity of digital practices is. This conference aims at providing a forum to discuss digital practices from different vantage points, ranging from considering human-to-human communication via digital means to automated machine-to-machine systems, such as developed under the heading of "Internet of Things." More information here.
Dates: June 7–9, 2016
Venue: University of Siegen, Artur-Woll-Haus, Germany |
| Editors: Anna Frisk, Kanchan Burathoki
Göteborgs universitet, e-mail: anna.frisk@gu.se
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