Events and news

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.

"We must get a new critical understanding of the concept of performance". That is the opinion of assistant professor in dance theory Josefine Wikström in her new book recently published by Routledge Publishing.

For a few days around Easter, the pedagogy students, BA year 2, got to meet and work with Clairemarie Osta, former étoile (star dancer) from the Paris Opera, current artistic director specializing in Classical Ballet at the Royal Swedish Ballet School in Stockholm.

Two expositions in VIS – Nordic Journal for Artistic Research have been given awards by the Society for Artistic Research, including the finest award an artistic research exposition can receive: the SAR RC Prize for Best Exposition.

Stockholm University of the Arts (SKH), together with Atrium Ljungberg and the City of Stockholm, is organising a design contest to design a new building for SKH. The process is led by Architects Sweden.

Ylva Hofvander Trulsson has today been employed as Assistant Professor in pedagogy in the artistic field with assignment as Head of the department of dance pedagogy at Stockholm University of the Arts.

The two-day meeting The Huddle probes the question “who is left out within the circus scene?” Now the event returns for a second, independent iteration, 13-14 April.

Contribution to the debate by professors at SKH

Today, 15 March, we've released the fifth issue of VIS – Nordic Journal for Artistic Research. The journal, published since 2018 by Stockholm University of the Arts together with Norwegian agency Diku, uses complex and often large-scale expositions to convey insights and knowledge from artistic research.