Linn Hilda Lamberg’s Making Public – in weakness

The documented artistic research project (the dissertation) in weakness (i svaghet) consists of: 

• An introductory paper
• 7 participatory performance works staged over the period 2019-2025 as well as documented reflections from these works: Heaven & Hell, It Takes a Village, Väckelsen, Fatale, General Public, Minor Arcana and Wuthering Heights.
• Book: i svaghet, a reflective text on how participatory formats can inform and reform the dynamic between director and performer. 
• An appendix: in a quiet place, a summery of practical artistic methods applied throughout the research. 

Schedule

Morning (no booking required)
9:00–9:30 A brief introduction to the research project, coffee and cookies. 
9:30–12:30 An embodied tour through the 7 documented performances led by performers from each project. 

Afternoon (Book you place)
13:30–16:30 Workshop: practical methods for deliberate weakness. A hands-on implementation of some of the artistic methods presented in the research project. No preparation is needed, practitioners from any field and discipline can participate.  
The number of places is very limited. Book you place on the booking link. 

A summary of the research project

In her performance works Lamberg invites the visitor to explore complex issues through direct and personal experiences. An art museum is used as a tarot deck and a newly founded sub culture explores guilt and pain through porridge.

A format without a tribune posts immediate questions concerning the directing practice, so does a narrative where performers and audience share food, argues and kisses. The field of participatory performance provides, in many ways, particular conditions not only for the audience but also for the practitioners. These conditions resonate very differently with different practitioners and can lead to dynamics heavily relying on devotion and strength as well as they can serve to question such ideals. In her research, Lamberg have sought to gain a deeper understanding of her own field in order to navigate the expectations that she, for one reason or another, feel are directed at her in her professional role.

Together with artistic collaborators Lamberg has gone close and personal with questions concerning responsibility, mandate, conflict and attraction in 7 large scale performance works: Heaven & Hell, It Takes a Village, Väckelsen, Fatale, General Public, Minor Arcana and Wuthering, Wuthering Heights. In various ways these 7 performances have given room for a deeper dive in the research question, leaving space for specificity and complexity. Documentation of these 7 projects will be published on Research Catalogue the 12 January, 2026. 

In the book i svaghet Lamberg speaks from experiences of practical artistic work. With concepts borrowed from gender studies, class studies and psychoanalysis Lamberg navigates through intense symbiosis, hurt emotions and stupid misstakes.

i svaghet will be published on Research Catalogue on 12 January, 2026, and printed in time for the Public Defence on 17 March, 2026. The book will be available at www.bokforlagetkorpen.se.

Public defence

The public defence will be held on the 17 March 2026.