Events and news

Yesterday, 19 Oktober, issue six of VIS – Nordic Journal for Artistic Research was released, with the theme “Contagion”. When the Editorial Committee of the journal picked the theme in March 2020, contagion felt like a very relevant subject. But no-one could have predicted at the time just how much contagion would come to influence society – or how many issues about art and contagion that would suddenly turn up and become deeply influential.

Are you curious about our school? Most welcome Tuesday 7 December to our Open House online event!

Art Talks, a series of talks organised by Stockholm University of the Arts together with Kulturhuset Stadsteatern, is taking on an ever more pressing subject this autumn: When art suddenly gets attacked in social media and in the media generally. What consequences does this have for artists – and for society as a whole? The first talk will take place on 7 September.

The artistic PhD project can be found in DIVA.

A documentary filmmaker portrays the present as it occurs in front of the filmmaker’s camera, or uses archival material to portray the past. But how can the same type of tool be used to portray the future without falling into fictional re-enactments and sci-fi clichés? This is the central inquiry in the research project The Future Through The Present, conducted by SKH Professor of Doumentary Film Erik Gandini, which is getting a major presentation on 30 September at Den Danske Filmskole.

Stockholm University of the Arts is pleased to announce that the biennial Alliances and Commonalities is back for a third edition on October 20-22, 2022. We are anticipating that Alliances and Commonalities 2022 will be a live, online and hybrid form experience. The Call for exposition and proposals is open until October 31, 2021.

​​​​​​​A process that completely shifts paradigms and power structures, and requires fundamental organisational change. No less of a task is assigned to the topic of decolonisation, the theme of the conference Decolonizing tertiary dance education: Time to act collaboratively, which is being held in spring 2022 by SKH in collaboration with Makerere University in Kampala. The deadline for conference proposals is 15 September.

We offer courses in circus, dance, dance pedagogy, film and media, opera and performing arts. Welcome with your application no later than 15 October.

As part of the education, artists from the New Performative Practices (NPP) Master’s Programme launch a podcast: Audioreflection pod. In fourteen episodes they share questions, explorations, dilemmas and expectations, arising from their different artistic practices that have moved side by side during their studies on the two-year master's programme.

It’s easy to think of artistic research as something belonging only to the most academic and experimental strand of film. But there’s a plethora of possibilities that artistic research can contribute to all filmmaking – which is something a new conference at the Film University in Babelsberg is focusing on. Stockholm University of the Arts is represented by Annika Boholm och Kersti Grunditz Brennan.

During theatre rehearsals, working with the text and working with movement is often separated. But how would an actor’s interpretation and performance of dramatic text be affected if that, too, was conducted with the body in focus? This question forms the basis of Aleksandra Czarnecki Plaude’s research project ”Pronounced embodiment” which is being presented on 25 May.

Marie Fahlin successfully defended her artistic research project Moving through Choreography – Curating Choreography as an Artistic Practice on 28 April 2021, within the PhD programme Performative and Media based practices. The documented artistic research project (doctoral thesis) can be found in Research Catalogue and DIVA.