Wednesday seminar: bodies as documentations as bodies

This seminar is part of the Wednesday seminar series this spring “Processes of Documentation”, where we explore a wide range of processes of documentation emerging within the field of artistic research. Here you can learn more about the series and discover upcoming seminars!

The seminar proposes to concretely share some processes used to document the artistic research symposium bodies as institutions as bodies held from October 22-24, 2025, at Stockholm University of the Arts and Hägerstensåsens Medborgarhus. 

Addressing ways we dealt with documentation before, during and after the symposium, we will share some reflections and realisations in relation to mode, format, material, scale, volume, curating, editing, transposing, transforming; what we decided to document, how we decided to document and where we find ourselves now in the processes of documentation. 

Manifesting as a series of performance, film and installation events programmed alongside seminars, conversations, and panel discussions, bodies as institutions as bodies unfolded the term ‘institute’ as both a verb – to set in motion, to generate, to actuate, and a noun – a university, an alliance, a group.

institutional bodies along with animal bodies and environmental bodies consitute the international transdisciplinary research group BODIES which is part of the Expanded Artistic Research Network (EARN). More info

Rebecca Hilton is a dance person and an honorary research fellow at the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne, Australia. She is the lead of the BODIES working party, animal bodies.

Hanna Husberg is a visual artist, researcher and assistant professor of Performative and Media-based Practices at SKH. She leads the working party environmental bodies.

Kathrin Gollwitzer-Oh is Head of Research Coordination at the University of the Arts Bremen (HfK). An arts administrator devoted to the development of art, artists and artistic research, she leads the institutional bodies working party.