Marcia Nemer’s Public defence

Marcia Nemer’s artistic doctoral project Staging Absence has been published. 
Link to DiVA: Doctoral thesis
Link to Research Catalogue: Doctoral thesis

Participants

PhD candidate:
Marcia Nemer 

Opponent:
Anne Gry Haugland

Committee:
Find Defence Committee Biography below
Heiner Goebbels
Imri Sandström
Ingvild Holm
John Paul Zaccarini (substitute) 

Supervisor: 
Rebecca Hilton
Sher Doruff
 

Schedule 

13:00–13:10 Welcome Erika Höghede, introduction by Cecilia Roos
13:10–13:30 Presentation by Marcia Nemer
13:30–13:50 Summary by the opponent
13:50–14:45 Discussion between opponent and respondent
14:45–15:15 Break (fika)
15:15– Questions from committee followed by questions from audience
Break (Water + fruit for the public)
Deliberation of the committee
The result is announced
Bubbles 

Defence Committee (Biography)

Opponent: 
Anne Gry Haugland holds a Ph.D. from the University of Copenhagen with the dissertation Naturen i ånden - on the philosophy of nature in Inger Christensen's authorship (2012). She subsequently carried out the research project The Poetics of Art - on the concept of reflection in artistic research (2014-2016) in a collaboration between DKDM and the University of Copenhagen. Since 2017, Anne Gry has been employed as an associate professor at DKDM, where she works with artistic research on many levels. She has developed the collaboration format KUV-Forum at DKDM and is also project manager for the research project Art and Learning. In 2025 Anne Gry was the acting Vice Rector for Research at the Stockholm University of the Arts.

Committee: 
Heiner Goebbels is a German Composer and director, born 1952, living in Frankfurt/Main and Berlin, belongs to the most important exponents of the contemporary music and theatre scene. Created internationally celebrated compositions for ensemble and large orchestra (Surrogate Cities, A House Of Call), music-theatre pieces (Max Black, Eraritjaritjaka) staged concerts (Songs of Wars I have Seen), radio plays, sound- und video installations (Documenta, Centre Pompidou, Museo da Arte Bogota, Museo Reina Sofia Madrid - among others). CD productions for ecm-records. 1999 - 2018 Professor at the Institute for Applied Theatre Studies at Justus Liebig University, Gießen, from 2018-2024 first holder of the Georg Büchner Professorship at Center of Media and Interactivity. Artistic Director of Ruhrtriennale – International Festival of the Arts 2012 – 2014. Anthology "Aesthetics of Absence" (2015). Numerous international awards (Prix Italia, European Theatre Price, International Ibsen Award, Grammy nominations a.o.)

Imri Sandström is a Swedish artist, writer, and researcher. In 2019 she earned her doctoral degree in literary composition from HDK-Valand, Gothenburg University, with a project entitled Tvärsöver otysta rider/ Across Unquiet Times. Informed by feminist and decolonial thinking and practice, her work is invested in issues regarding language, history, performativity, and transdisciplinarity. Sandström is running the research project Writing Visual Relations at HDK-Valand, in which she investigates possibilities of writing (about) image through transdisciplinary ekphrasis.

Ingvild Holm works in the expanded fields of theatre and visual art. She completed a 3-year national Artistic Research Fellowship program (equivalent to a Ph.D.) from 2015 to 2020 and is a practicing theater and performance artist. Holm engages in interdisciplinary practices within theater and visual arts, where she is responsible for concepts, text, development, and performance. Her doctoral project, "Scenomaten", was an institution-critical examination of what place and context do to form and content in a series of works with the place itself in the leading role. Her artistic development work revolves around object-oriented performance art, performative scenography, text as an object, object dramaturgy, ontology, site specificity, precarity, and reuse. She has participated in numerous Norwegian and international collaborations in addition to individual works within performance, writing, film, exhibitions, scenography, curating, workshops & artistic research.