Linn Hilda Lamberg’s Public defence

Linn Hilda Lamberg’s artistic doctoral project has been published. 

Link to DiVA: Doctoral thesis
Link to Research Catalogue: Doctoral thesis

The defence will be streamed live here

The streaming box will be published shortly before the defence.

The chat will open when the defence begins. Welcome to ask your questions!

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Participants

PhD candidate:  
Linn Hilda Lamberg

Opponent:
Rasmus Ölme

Committee:
Lena Dahlén
Ester Bergsmark
Josefin Wikström
Jörgen Bergmark (substitute)

Main supervisor:
Cecilia Roos 

Supervisor: 
Sara Edenheim

The chair: 
Petra Bauer

Schedule

13:00–13:10 Welcome by the Head of subject area and The chair. 
13:10–13:30 Respondent's presentation of the research project
13:30–13:50 Opponent's summary
13:50–14:45 Discussion between opponent and respondent
14:45–15:15 Break 
15:15–
– Questions from the grading committee and the audience
– Break
– The grading committee announces the result

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.

Biographies

Rasmus Ölme
Following his career as a dancer, Rasmus Ölme founded the group REFUG and, during the 2000s, produced several works that toured Europe. In 2008, he began doctoral studies in choreography through a collaboration between the KTH Royal Institute of Technology and the Stockholm University of the Arts. After graduating, he joined the Danish National School of Performing Arts, where he became a professor in 2019. He has published, lectured, supervised and taught internationally. He has served as an external examiner for doctoral theses and currently sits on the review panels for artistic research funds in Austria and Denmark. 

Ester Bergsmark
Filmmaker, writer and artistic researcher based in Stockholm. Her work aims to expand the sensory register and create space for multi-layered, elusive experiences without fixing or simplifying them. Central to her practice is a form of deep somatic listening to audiovisual material, which formed the basis of her artistic doctoral project Voice Under at the Stockholm University of the Arts (2023). 
With a background in film, she has directed several acclaimed and internationally screened feature films for cinema, television and festivals

Lena Dahlén 
Actor, awarded a PhD in Performance Studies in 2012 at the Academy of Music and Drama in Gothenburg with the thesis *From Reading to Performance*. She has followed developments in artistic research and worked as a senior lecturer at the Academy, where she taught and supervised on the Master’s programmes in performing arts as well as on the Theatre Teacher Training Programme. As an actor, she has worked in independent theatre groups and staged a number of her own works. Her work has been characterised by an interest in issues relating to the performing arts, such as the significance of space, the role of the audience, and the relationship between performance and intellectual currents and society.

Josefine Wikström
Author, critic and researcher. She works as a senior lecturer in performative practices at the School of Music and Drama at the University of Gothenburg, where she is also subject coordinator at the Department of Performing Arts and director of studies on the Master’s programme in Contemporary Performative Arts. She also holds a senior lectureship in aesthetics at Södertörn University. Her research focuses on dance and performance in contemporary art from the perspective of the philosophy of art. She is a dance critic for Dagens Nyheter and is one of the editors of the experimental philosophy and art platform SITE Zones.

Jörgen Bergmark (Reserve)
Screenwriter and director in film and TV. Since 2021, he has been a senior lecturer in Film and Media, specialising in Screenwriting, at Stockholm University of the Arts. His research focuses on how real events and collective memories interact with site-specific practice in the borderland between documentary and fictional storytelling.