Archiving the world in the internet age

Through film screenings, performances, exhibition visits, video gaming, documenting, archiving and discussing, you engage in new perspectives that transforms your world views and enhance your critical skills (decision making, strategic thinking, problem solving, coordinating, prioritising, scheduling, communication, respect, sharing, participation, listening, observation, flexibility, collaboration).

This is what you can learn at the course

Develop critical thinking and looking skills to understand how artists respond to the social and cultural issues of their time.

Develop a deeper understanding of artists’ processes, including modes of experimentation and engagements with the past.

Gain confidence in looking at and talking about archive science and archival practices in contemporary art.

Better comprehend the choices you make as makers with respect to expression, identity, and issues such as archival practices and memorialisation.

These are the skills you can gain from the course

You can understand the politics of the archive(s) and how to counter-balance the historical issues of exclusions and silences in the archives (for example: counter-narratives, community archives, re-enactments).

You can reliably demonstrate the capacity to create artistic strategies which engage with the archival multiverse (documentation, embodied knowledge, record keeping, archiving, archival practices such as performed re-enactment and archival film practice).

You are able to design and organise personal strategies to reflect on your daily life and production of data.

You demonstrate the ability to navigate artistic practices which engage with the archive(s), the archival, memory and memorialisation.

You can correctly identify a range of works of art related to archival practices.

General Entry Requirements:
for studies at the first cycle with the exception of Swedish 1, 2 and 3.

Specific Entry Requirements:
30 credits in the main areas of Performing Arts and Media, Circus, Dance, Dance Pedagogy Choreography or Opera, or equivalent.

If you don’t fulfil the formal entry requirements for the programme you may apply for recognition of prior learning, in other words that the knowledge and competence you have acquired through other activities are assessed as the equivalent of the formal merits that are required. Submit your application for recognition of prior learning with your application for the programme.

You may also apply for an exemption/a waiver, that allows you to proceed to the selection process even though you don’t meet the general admission requirements. Submit your application for an exemption/a waiver together with your application.

Read more about how you can show that you meet the entry requirements (that you are eligible).

Start your application early! Don’t delay in submitting your application! You may run into trouble if you wait until the last day and your internet connection happens to be down, or you find that your files are in the wrong format. You will not be able to apply once the last date for applications has passed. Keep in mind that your application needs to be turned in by 23.59 (Swedish time).

Apply to the course via universityadmissions.se

The course is open for late application

“Open for late application” means that it is still possible to apply to the course, that the applications will be assessed and places filled in the order that applications are submitted. Please make sure to submit you application as soon as possible!

You apply to the course in two steps

1. Apply to the course via universityadmissions.se  
   Last day for application: 17 April 2023
   Please note! Choose “Autum 2023” for your search!
   
   Please note that you need to submit supporting documents showing that you meet the general entry requirements via universityadmissions.se under My pages/Documents/Upload documents.
   Last day to submit supporting documentation: 2 May 2023
   
    
2. Submit your worksample via universityadmissions.se (according to instructions below)
   Last day to submit worksamples to be part of the selection: 17 April 2023

Instructions for work sample

Since the course is open for late applications no work samples needs to be uploaded. 

You need to submit the following work sample via universityadmission.se in order to be part of the selection to this course.

Compile ONE PDF file containing the following material:

A motivation letter answering the following three questions:

1. Use your imagination and write about the best archivist-artist of all time? 

2. What do you expect from the course and what would you like to learn?

3. If the past is a foreign country, how would you like to explore it?

The pdf-file should be max 1/2-1  A4-page in total. Name the file "Work sample - Archiving"

Important dates for your application 

• Last day for applications: 17 April 2023
  Please note! Choose “Autumn 2023” for your search!
   
• Last day to pay the application fee or prove that you are not required to pay the fees: 2 May 2023 (read more under Application and tuition fees below)
   
• Admission results: Published on My pages on universityadmissions.se 12 July 2023.
   
• Last day to reply to possible course offer: 21 July 2023.

If there are more eligible applicants than available places there will be a selection. Selection is based on the submitted motivation letter and on the ability for self-motivation and imagination in relation to the course.

If you are a Swedish citizen or a citizen of another EU or EEA country you are not required to pay application or tuition fees. Some other groups are also exempt from the requirement to pay application and study fees.

If you are not a Swedish citizen or a citizen of another EU or EEA country you are required to pay application and tuition fees. The level of the study fees depends on which course/programme they are for, and the level is set in order to cover the actual costs of the course/programme in question. SKH has some possibilities of offering scholarships that cover the study fees for programmes.

If you are required to pay an application fee, the Swedish Council for Higher Education needs to receive your payment by the last date for paying the application fee. The application fee is SEK 900. If you are required to pay the application fee and the Swedish Council for Higher Education has not received your payment by the last date for paying the tuition fee, they will not process your application. Read more here.

The tuition fee for the courses is 83 250 SEK.

Read more about tuition fees and scholarships.