Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts

FACULTY OF FINE, APPLIED AND PERFORMING ARTS

ANNUAL REPORT Etudes on Silence and Walking in Silence (performance lectures), Helena Kågemark & Cecilia Lagerström, Academy of Music and Drama Photo: Cecilia Lagerström Faculty of fine, applied and performing arts

annual report 2013 Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts Box 141 405 30 Göteborg tel: +46 (0)31-786 00 00 www.konst.gu.se

This Annual Report was produced in January 2014. Reg.nr: V 2014/194 (Swedish original)

Cover: Anna Bergquist, student at HDK – School of Design and Crafts List of contents

Dean’s Reflection - 2013 6 Student Union’s Reflection - 2013 7 The Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts 2013 8 Undergraduate (first-cycle) and Masters (second-cycle) Education 10 Doctoral (third-cycle) Education 14 Research 18 Cooperation/Third-Stream Activities 22 Valand Academy 26 HDK – School of Design and Crafts 28 Academy of Music and Drama 30

The Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts Annual Report 2013 // 5 Deans reflection 2013

Like all years, the Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts enjoyed an abundance of work during the course of 2013. This was the first year for a new organisational structure to be implemented and this entailed a number of changes in the relationship between our departments and our Faculty Board. The latter will serve to govern, allocate and follow up how departmental education and research efforts achieve high set targets. An example of this is the Faculty Research School, which was previously located at the Faculty Office, now being integrated into department activities.

However, as you will see and read in the pages to come, the organisational structure is merely a dry skeleton in a body that comes to life through student and staff activities. Of course we need adequate organisation and support services, but research and education are not called core activities for nothing!

The higher education sector is often very staid in its ways and doesn’t adapt very quickly to changes in society, but holds on to subjects and career paths that are well established. Here we should maintain and defend the specialisations we have developed, at the same time as we dare to create renewing ventures. During the course of this year a number of new programmes and freestanding courses have been developed that have attracted a great number of applicants, at the same time as the percentage of applicants to our long-established programmes is still high. Our amazing students are ‘creative movers’ – who make themselves seen in the city of Gothenburg as well as in the world beyond – by taking part in different public projects, exchanges, exhibitions and performances.

The evaluation of higher arts programmes carried out by the Swedish Higher Education Authority has led to our teachers dedicating a lot of time to reviewing their own activities and writing self-evaluations – which has meant a lot of hard work at the time, but which, in the long run, will provide and enable both insight and inspiration

The Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts receives a comparatively small amount of funding for research, and our doctoral programmes have experienced a few lean years that have meant not being able to advertise any vacancies for new doctoral studentships. Fortunately though we have received external funding for a number of new doctoral students. Senior research at the Faculty has also taken an important step forward, having received support from our Vice-Chancellor to build up the Platform for Ar tistic Resear- ch Sweden - PARSE, which is a platform for the publication of research results and for conference activities, and which is of significance not least when we find ourselves in a situation where the competition for public funding for artistic research is becoming more difficult. In times like these it is a real advantage for higher arts programmes to be an integrated part of a large university. The University also enables collaborative efforts to take place between teachers and researchers from other disciplines, and departments within the Faculty are asked to participate in several collaborations of this kind.

Our Faculty’s strong position within the University and within the city of Gothenburg also makes itself felt when plans for a new campus are now underway. This campus is to be located close to the part of Gothenburg called Götaplatsen. Here our two departments HDK – School of Design and Crafts and the Valand Academy are to join, not only another Faculty department, the Academy of Music and Drama, but also the Faculty of Humanities and the University Library. These plans have been underway for quite a long time, but during the course of this year have now become part of public debate – with all that this entails in the form of welcome criticism, enthusiasm and counterproposals.

2013 was an exciting year; And 2014 promises to be just as intense!

Ingrid Elam

6 // Deans reflection 2013 THE FACULTY’S STUDENT UNION’S REFLECTION 2013

During the year the student union ‘Konstkåren’ has focused on improving communication with students. A new website, created by three students from BA in Design, was launched in January. Our webb site is an important channel for spreading information between the students’ union and students. Information about meetings, what student representatives are on what councils, and a calendar where students can post events, can be found here. ‘Konstkåren’ also reaches out to students via social media and our page in the student magazine ‘Spionen’ (The Spy). Our aim is that all students have easy access to information about union activities and know where to turn to if they need help as a student.

Another important focus area is to promote cross-programme and department programmes. Students have expressed a strong wish to be able to choose joint programmes and use each other’s workshops to a greater extent. We have a continuous dialogue with the Faculty on this issue and also promote exchange in other ways – by inviting students to events such as ‘Konstpub’, which is just one of many initiatives organised by the union where students can show their work in the form of performances, film screenings, lectures, workshops and so on. During the spring ‘Konstpub’, which attracted a great number of students from all departments, was arranged at ‘Röda Sten Konsthall’.

‘Konstkåren’ receives an annual grant from the Faculty for activities related to student welfare. This money goes to events we arrange ourselves, but students also have the possibility to apply for funding for other student-targeted projects. These can include exhibitions, parties, concerts, workshops and other events where students can meet. ‘Konstkåren’ have given support and financial help to a number of different projects that have been extremely successful and well attended. We had our first Master Mingle during the autumn, a series of lectures where we invite students, alumni and other professionals to talk about projects that fit in with the theme we choose for the evening.

By taking part in the Dean’s Council and the Faculty Board, ‘Konstkåren’ gets insight into the work at the Faculty and has the opportunity to influence important decisions regarding programmes and the working environment. Representatives from ‘Konstkåren’ also take part in the Quality Council and in the Faculty’s Operational and Action Plan. Besides this we also represent students at different committees and groups for the improvement of programmes, our working environment and Gothenburg as a student town in general. We also have representatives in the project to build up an Arts and Humanities Campus called Campus Näckrosen, where a student perspective is of considerable importance.

A lot of time has been dedicated to building up the different sections of our union and we are pleased that we now have operateing sections at all departments. The sections work is important as it is directly connected to the programmes at each respective department. Earlier it has been difficult to recruit students for union work since students thought it would take too much of their time. Another reason can be that students have too little knowledge of union activities, what the purpose of a union is and the opportunities it can provide, which we of course hope to be able to change now.

‘Konstkåren’ is the smallest union at the University, and since the financial support unions receive is based on the number of full-time students, ‘Konstkåren’ has a significantly smaller amount of funding than other unions, despite that we are expected to represent our students to the same extent. This has led to the presidents become overworked, and a discussion on the structure and function of our union is now underway to avoid similar situations in the future. We hope we can come up with a good solution together with our Faculty so that we can have a student-driven organisation that that works towards making our programmes even better.

Anna Bergquist, Union Chairperson - ‘Konstkåren’

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Faculty of Fine, Applied and New Faculty Board Members Performing Arts 2013 A by-election to appoint two new members to the Faculty Board. was carried out during the year. The Drafting Group’s recommendations gained a convincing majority of votes, Departments which resulted in Mats Aldén, co-opted Professor in Wood-Oriented Furniture Design Valand Academy and Marcus Jahnke, Senior Lecturer in Design, being elected as members of the Faculty HDK – School of Design and Crafts Board. Other board members include: Academy of Music and Drama Chair, Ingrid Elam, Dean of the Faculty Undergraduate (first-cycle) and master’s Vice-Chair, Johannes Landgren, Pro-Dean of the Faculty (second-cycle) levels Anna Bergquist, student representative Full-time equivalent students: 1129 Henrik Kilhamn, student representative Teacher Education students 301 Lasse Lindkvist, Senior Lecturer in Photography Doctoral level Thomas Laurien, student representative/doctoral education Doctoral (third-cycle) students: 44 Maria Nyström, Professor in Design Doctoral degrees: 6 Ola Stockfelt, Professor in Musicology (specialisation: Music and Moving Images) Licentiate degrees: 1 Yvonne Söderling, Administrative Manager at the Academy of Music and Drama

Staff During the year the Faculty Board has taken a number of initiatives related to quality Employees: 353 work and measures to support departmental efforts related to education and research. Full-time equivalent employees: 253 Examples of the work carried out here include: Teachers/researchers & doctoral students: 146 Faculty Collegiums Professors: 18 Faculty Collegiums have been set up to promote cross-departmental cooperation. These Technical/administrative staff: 87 consist of members of staff who have a united interest in an area that crosses all three Faculty Finances departments. Following a decision in April 2013, funding was allocated to support the Allocated funding, in million SEK, following five Faculty Collegiums: Education: 255 Research: 44 • The Faculty Collegium on Critique • The Faculty Collegium on Evaluation, Feedback, and Documentation External funding (from grants & commissio- • The Faculty Collegium on Compositional Practices ned assignments), • The Faculty Collegium on Performance/Performativity Studies Education: 16 • The Faculty Collegium on Arts Forms and Learning Research: 12

Revenues – total amount: 353 During the course of the year these Collegiums have arranged open seminars and events at the Faculty. These included: a seminar, arranged by the Faculty Collegium on Critique, www.konst.gu.se with the theme: Spinoza and the Hydraulic Discipline of Affects, with Miguel de Beistegui from the University of Warwick, Coventry and Chiara Bottici from the New School for Social Research, New York; a two-day seminar, arranged by the Faculty Collegium on Compositional Practices, with the theme: Mimicry: On Nature, Transition, Over-Abun- dance and Identity – with Breakdowns, and a seminar arranged by the same Collegium on the theme: Ecriture Feminine: The Politics of the Address and its Forms of Resistance; an event arranged by the Faculty Collegium on Performance/Performativity Studies at HDK – School of Design and Crafts on the theme: Wonder, as well as a lecture arranged by the same Collegium on the theme: Radical Imagination – Re-enactments of Action and Per- formance in connection with a conference that was part of the Gothenburg International Biennial of Contemporary Art (GIBCA).

Quality Council In order to meet the increased responsibilities of the Faculty regarding quality assurance and the development of quality management in relation to its core activities, the Faculty Board has set up a Quality Council during the course of 2013. This Quality Council is ope- rated by a Steering Group made up of the Chair of the Faculty’s Student Union - ‘Konst-

Rostockseminariet, the last issue of the kåren’, Assistant Heads of Departments from our three departments,the Pro-Dean of journal ArtMonitor – on the theme of the Faculty, and the Head of the Faculty Office. Besides this Steering Group, the Quality artistic research and experiences of being a Council also consists of two members of staff from each respective departments and a doctoral student. Guest editor for this issue was Andreas Gedin. student representative. The responsibilities of the Quality Council includes arranging

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regular Quality Seminars that act to coordinate the work being done with regard to the PARSE - Advisory Board National Evalulation of Higher Arts Education, as well as spreading good practice. Ute Meta Bauer, Reader at MIT, Massachusetts Darla Crispin, Reader at the Norwegian Academy PARSE - Platform for artistic research sweden of Music, Oslo ArtMonitor, a journal on artistic research that was launched at the Faculty in 2007, Simon Critchley, Professor in Philosophy, New published its last issue entitled Rostockseminariet in 2013. A total of 10 issues, which School, NY Bruno Latour, Professor, Institut d’Etudes Politi- attracted the attention of both international and Swedish media, were published during ques, Paris this period of time. This does not entail the Faculty’s research communication being Andrea Phillips, Reader in Fine Art, Goldsmiths, phased out but rather international research communication being geared up. The Uni- London Henk Slager, Dean at MaHKU & Professor in Artis- versity of Gothenburg’s Vice-Chancellor has allocated funding to a research platform tic Research, University of the Arts, Utrecht that is to arrange an annual international research conference and a peer-review journal. This platform is led by an Advisory Board made up of international researchers who will support the project and help to develop a peer-review culture at the Faculty. You can read more about this project on the Faculty’s website under Research.

Honorary Doctorate Awards 2013 Two honorary doctorates were awarded by the Faculty Board during the year; these were awarded to Film Director Helma Sanders-Brahms and Performance Artist Liz Ag- giss, who attended the University’s Annual Doctorate Award Ceremony. Liz Aggiss dis- tinguished herself at the ceremony by giving a speech in the form of a performance that gave a tongue-in-cheek account of the formal structure of this ceremonial event.

Environment and Sustainable Development Helma Sanders-Brahms was awarded one of the two We have an Environment Coordinator who quality assures the environmental and sus- honorary doctorates at the Faculty in 2013. Helma is a tainable development efforts carried out at the Faculty, where much of the actual work German film director who, in the 1960s and 70s, was among those who created what we today call the ’New involved here is carried out at our departments. In 2012 increased amounts of cadmi- German Film Wave’. um were measured in the Valand Academy’s sewage system. The Academy has worked Photo: Johan Wingborg actively to solve this problem during the course of 2013 by implementing a long-term responsibility strategy to improve routines for the handling of waste paint and for the spreading of information on the health and environmental risks caused by heavy metals. Parts of courses/programmes that focus on artists’ paints and the cadmium and other heavy metals they contain have also been introduced, where guest lecturers from the Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine have been invited to take part. These courses have become part of the Visual Arts Teachers’ Programme by the latter introducing a specialisation called Sustainable Art Education, and an integral part of the Wood and Metal Work Teachers’ Programme by this programme choosing to use sustainable non-toxic material. On the initiative of the Faculty’s Environment Council, Faculty Finances all students and staff were invited to a screening of the award-winning film on climate change, Chasing Ice. The Faculty reported a surplus of 11.4 million SEK (cf. budget 3.8 million SEK). During Photo: James Balog the course of the year an additional revenue of slightly more than four million SEK above the budget was also reported. The Faculty’s support services cost five million SEK less. Other operational costs amounted to approximately four million SEK lower than expected, which primarily depends on costs for purchased services not being needed to the extent that was initially planned. Revenues for contracted undergraduate (first-cycle) education amounted to 14 million SEK, which is double the amount compared to the previous year. The Swedish National Agency for Education’s Teacher in Service Training Initiative ‘Lärarlyf tet’ at HDK – School of Design and Crafts is the reason for this increase. Research grants amounted to 11 million SEK, which is 2 million SEK less than 2012. The Swedish Research Council was the main donor of research funds, which amounted to four million SEK compared to 8 million SEK in 2012.

The Faculty of Fine Applied and Performing Arts 2013 // 9 Utbildning på grund- och avancerad nivå

A Part - Opera, Par Bricole 2013 Gustav Lejelind, masters student in Fine Art, Valand Academy

UNDERGRADUATE (FIRST-CYCLE) and MASTERS (SECOND-CYCLE) EDUCATION

Quality has been the order of the day during the course of 2013, partly by the Faculty Boards’ task Number of full-time equivalent students (FTEs) at the Faculty in of assuring quality having received a more central role, but, above all by higher arts education 2013 being subject to the Swedish Higher Education Authority’s Quality Monitoring System – which attracted considerable attention and criticism. The Faculty Board set up a Quality Council in order FTEs undergratuate level 805 FTEs at masters level: 324 to strengthen this particular area during the course of the year and efforts to develop a functional Total number of FTE students 1129 quality system are now underway. Development work is being carried out on a continuous basis at our departments (as you can read below) and we hope this work will be reflected in the results Students on freestanding courses: 333 of the evaluation which are to be published during the spring of 2014.

The new organisational structure that was launched summer 2012 resulted in the establishment of Unit/Subject Groups – which would become complete environments with both educational and research activities. Finding a form and an identity for these groups was a task that was carried out through internal efforts during the course of the year. We also continued our work to reach out to a wider pool of candidates to our programmes, by asking the questions: how can we improve widening participation, how can we reach out to new groups, and how can students studying at our Faculty cooperate more during their studies. Discussion on these issues were arranged during the course of the year and the Faculty Board decided to allocate one million SEK for development work related to the launching of Faculty-wide courses and to the strengthening of international courses. As you will read below, the freestanding courses offered at the Faculty also serve to reach out to new target groups as well as to stimulate cross-department studies.

10 // undergraduate and masters education 2013 VALAND academy course and educational development work Courses and Programmes at During the autumn of 2014 a new MFA programme in Literary Composition with a spe- the Valand Academy 2013: cialisation in Literary Arts Translation will be launched - the first of its kind in Sweden. Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in : A MFA in Photography with a specialisation in Archives will also be launched in a joint Photography endeavour with the University of the Arts, London – one of the world’s most well-reputed Fine Art Film arts universities. A number of programmes have been revised during the year. The BFA in Film has adju- Master of Fine Arts (MFA) 60 credits in Film with a specialisation in: sted its programme syllabus to include a new pedagogical model. The Photography Unit Processes of Film Making has revised both its BFA and its MFA in Photography in order to promote cross-subject Film and Video Curating collaboration as well as to assure student progression. Similar changes have been made to Master of Fine Arts (MFA) 120 credits with the BFA programme too, an example of which is the exhibition course that was offered as a specialisation in: Fine Art a joint Photography/Fine Art course. Revising these programmes was also intended as a Photography way to create forums for more in-depth specialised studies. During the year the program- Freestanding Courses me syllabus for the Literary Composition programme has been revised, and this revised Literary Composition programme will be offered at masters (second-cycle) level from the autumn term 2014. A new online application system was launched during 2013, which has resulted in improved admissions administration and less paper. Digital applications are clearer and simpler for applicants, and particularly for foreign applicants, to use. During the course of 2013 there has been a lot of focus placed on preparing documentation for the Swedish Higher Education Authority’s assessment of national qualitative targets. cross-subject activities During the autumn the Film Unit launched a forum; this forum was called the Frank Forum after Robert Frank, who has been awarded an honorary doctorate by the Faculty. The weekly seminars, are open to all staff and students at the Faculty. To stimulate reciprocal connection and interaction between research and education, the Valand Academy arranged a cross-disciplinary Research Day. The presentations were addressed to both students and staff, the aim of which was to encourage more in-depth dialogue between, students, teachers and researchers on artistic research and current artistic development projects. On 8th March the Valand Academy celebrated International Women’s Day by inviting gender scholar Vanja Hermele to talk about her novel In som ett lamm, ut som en tigrinna (English trans: In Like a Lamb, Out Like a Tigress). This book makes visible the problem of power within the arts field and the author questions concepts such as ”artistic quality”. widening participation in faculty courses and programmes During the the year the Valand Academy began strategic work to promote widening of EXHIBITIONS participation, An investigation is underway to find out who are admitted to the Academy. Here is a selection of this year’s exhibitions. The Film and Literary Composition programmes admit students Previous investigations (Swedish National Agency for Higher Education’s investigation in every other year and did not have any degree exhibi- 2010), show that it is mainly white middle-class citizens from academic homes that study tions this year. Students studying Film have shown their at Swedish arts colleges/universities. works at a number of festivals, and students studying Literary Composition have had readings. During the autumn Literary Composition took the initiative to launch a new course in Creative Writing in collaboration with the Angered Folk High School, located in Hammar- SO MUCH UNSPOKEN SO LITTLE REVEALED kullen. During the summer of 2014 the Valand Academy will also arrange a cross-discipli- 9 -31 March 2013, MA1 – Photography The Art Hall, Varberg, nary summer course called Artistic Investigations, at the Cultural Arts Centre - Blå stället. Other examples of freestanding courses that appeal to wider target groups are: DEGREE EXHIBITION 27 April– 26 May, BA3 – Photography • Censorship and Scandal: Art, Media and the Public Space Röda Sten Art Hall, Gothenburg • Art and Food - Material and Process FRAMES AND STAGES • Teaching Children to Make Films 11 May- 26 May, MA2 – Fine Art Gothenburg Art Hall internationalisation AS IF SILENCE(S) As a new department, the Valand Academy has begun work to produce an internationa- 4 May – 2 June, MA1 – Fine Art Tjolöholm Castle in collaboration with Grimeton Radio lisation strategy. There are already established collaborations, for example, Fine Art has Station World Heritage Site, Halland Art Museum and had student exchanges with Kanazawa College of Art in Japan since 1989. The Head of the InSite (projec tinsite.eu) Fine Art Unit was invited to Kanazawa during spring 2013 to ensure the continuation of ALMOST OVER: WHAT´S THE WORD this cooperation. Also this year two projects with schools in Bangalore, India, have taken 24 May - 2 June, BA3 Fine Art place. In spring 2013 the course Film Lab was given in collaboration with the Suchitra Warehouse Arts Centre for Young People, Gothenburg School of Film and Dramatic Arts. This course was mainly located in Istanbul and its focus 24 SPACES was ”The Other” in a foreign context. Five Indian and five Swedish students took part. 3 Mayj - 18 August MA2 – Fine Art Malmö Nordic 2013; During the autumn three teachers from the department went to Bangalore to teach for a The Modern Museum Malmö, Art Museum and Malmö month at the Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology. Art Hall

undergraduate and masters education 2013 // 11 HDK-school of design AND crafts

Course and Educational Development Work Study Courses and Programmes at HDK 2013 A connecting thread throughout the activities in all subject areas at HDK has been the Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA): strengthening of complete environments and stimulateing discussions in each subject Iron & Steel/Public Space area. Discussions in the Design programmes have evolved around invited lecturers and Wood-Oriented Furniture Design arranged seminars. Teachers and students at HDK at Steneby took part in discussions Textile-Garment-Design on the development of a research environment, and Crafts teachers have taken part in Ceramic Art discussions on contemporary theories and practice-based writing. Visual Arts and Ma- Jewellery Art terial Culture teachers are involved in Faculty Collegiums: the Faculty Collegium on Arts Textile Design Forms and Learning and the Faculty Collegium on Performance/Performativity Studies. Art Design As part of the government Continuing Professional Development initiative for teachers, Secondary Teacher Training Programme: Visual Arts the Swedish National Agency for Education has commissioned the Sloyd and Visual Arts Sloyd teachers programmes with a large-scale assignment; with more participants than any Master of Fine Arts (MFA): other subject. More teachers have been employed to meet the challenge. HDK has also Applied Art and Design been assigned increased responsibility for teacher trainee courses. There are new ad- Crafts ditions to the study courses and programmes; these include: Critical Exhibition Studies, Design in collaboration with the Swedish Exhibition Agency. This course is unique and attracts Child Culture Design both students and professionals - from a range of different areas of activity. Business & Design Freestanding Courses Internationalisation HDK continued efforts to recruit international students. Teachers from design visited schools in Japan, England, Germany, Holland, France and Switzerland where they held lectures or arranged on-site workshops. As the only education, our MFA programme Child Culture Design participated in an exhibition at the Swedish Embassy in Tokyo during ‘Sweden Kids Week’. In October five MFA students from Jewellery Art and Design, a Professor and a University Lecturer, took part in the Barcelona Art Jewellery Fair (JOYA) for subject development and network building. Two students from Child Culture Design took part in the University’s venture ‘Go India’. The project - a joint collaboration with the Department of Religious Studies and Theology - took the students to Pondicherry in India. The result was in a guide for teachers or heads of schools in Pondicherry on how marginalised children can be included in school education through play, with the childs perspective in focus. In May the Crafts’ MFA programme travelled to London to attend the International Art Fair ‘Collect’- the largest fair in Europe for contemporary crafts.

Exhibitions and Prizes Students at HDK are encouraged to develop themselves and their processes and methods. The results are often public exhibitions. Through the project Goats on Furniture carried out within the Wood-Oriented Furniture Design Programme, issues on the purpose of Lina Sofia Lundin’s degree project Färgnings- manifestet –(The Dyeing Manifesto) The Expan- design, sustainability and user perspectives were discussed. The project was exhibited ded Field of Composting . at the Stockholm Furniture Fair, Superstudio in Milan and the Röhsska Design Museum. . Child Culture Design students also exhibited their project Peek-a-boo at the Stockholm Furniture Fair and the Röhsska Design Museum. During the year both present and former students at HDK won awards. Lina Sofia Lundin received first prize in the Swedish Ecolabelling Organisation’s art and sustainability competition with her degree project in Textile Art - A Dyeing Manifesto - The Expanded Field of Composting. Dean NienFu Chen and Herman Hansson from Child Culture Design were awarded gold in the international Spark Design Award - in the category Concept Design for their degree project Paintable. Maja-Lisa Bekken, student at Textile-Gar- ment-Design, was awarded Olga Birkfelt’s art Prize and Funny Livdotter, from the same programme, received the Helmer Lång Stipend for 2013. Charlotte Maslov, Elin Flognman and Anna Norrgrann from Jewellery Art and Design were chosen to take part in the Gale- rie Marzee Graduate Show 2013, in Holland, that shows the best jewellry art projects by degree students from all over the world. And Klara Persson, from the MFA programme in Design, was awarded the Swedish Writers’ Union’s prize for the best debut book - Molly och Sus - for children and young people’s literature. Among our former students the following have been awarded different prizes: Staffan Holm (The Bruno Mathsson Prize 2013), Sara Möller (Becker’s Artist Stipend), Kristin Lidström (the Chicken Stipend at the Students at HDK - Steneby exhibited their pro- Gold Egg Gala) and Ludvig Ödman (The Kaleido Stipend). jects at the Gothenburg Garden Society . Here we see fashion art made of raspberry, toffee Degree exhibitions marked the end of the spring term. Students from HDK Steneby and liquorice strings by Funny Livdotter. had their exhibition at the Gothenburg Garden Society at the same time the programmes Photo: Bitte Nygren at HDK Gothenburg held their exhibitions at the school’s premises in Kristinelundsgatan.

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Course and Educational Development Work Efforts to develop the content of higher arts programmes, which were initiated during the work with BLUE 11 - the University’s review of its educational programmes have continued during 2013. This work includes thorough revisions of many of the programmes’ course syllabuses. During the autumn the Swedish Higher Education Authority’s review of Sweden’s higher arts programmes was also launched. Analysing our students’ independent projects and the self-evaluations that were written during the autumn will form the basis for future quality work at our department. A new Bachelor of Fine Arts programme in Music and Sound Production was launched in autumn 2013. In this programme for musicians, both theoretical and practice-based, artistic and technical knowledge are taught within a blended learning framework. This means that some of the teaching takes place at the department, and other parts online, as distance learning. The content of this programme aims at preparing students for a future in the music and sound branch, in Sweden and abroad. A number of new programmes have been developed during the course of 2013 and will be launched autumn 2014:

• A joint study programme: The Composing Musician, is a new specialisation within the Masters Programme in Improvisation. This programme is a collaboration between our department, the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo and the Rhythmic Music Conservatory (RMC) in Copenhagen.

• A masters programme in Choir Conducting (a 2-year part-time course). The aim Playing together in different kinds of ensembles and of this programme is to prepare students for specialised professions within the groups is the all-important part of studies at the world of music, such as choir leaders, choir conductors, choir teachers and advi- Academy, and creates an abundance of opportunities for students to perform in front of an audience - here sory officers within the world of choir singing. at the Gothenburg Culture Night in October 2013.. Photo: Johan Wingborg • A répétiteur’s programme for pianists at masters level with a speicalisation in musical rehearsal. This programme will focus on the role of the pianist as a Programmes at the Academy 2013 co-performer, accompanist and coach. Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in: Musical Theatre In April our Church Musician programme hosted a conference on what form programmes Music, specialisation in Improvisation for musicians working in churches will take. Musicians active in churches, representati- Music, specialisation in Individual Performance Music, specialisation in Composition ves from different organisations within the church, as well as other cultural workers and Music, specialisation in Classical Performance our sister schools, were invited to the conference. Music, specialisation in Church Music Music, specialisation in Music & Sound Production Music, specialisation in Folk/World Music Internationalisation Opera A great number of shorter and longer exchanges have taken place during the year. Stu- Theatre, specialisation in Acting dents from our Contemporary Performative Arts programme visited Antwerp in Belgi- Secondary Teacher Training Programmes in: um with their teacher Helena Jonsdóttir, and seven composition students together with Music their teacher Staffan Mossenmark visited the Verona Risuona Festival in Verona, Italy. Theatre With the support of the Swedish Institute, students from our acting programme vi- Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in: sited Sousse in Tunisia, who, together with other young artists from Syria, Iraq, Egypt, Contemporary Performative Arts Palestine, Algeria and Tunisia, worked with the theme “The Role of Culture in Reform Music, specialisation in Improvisation Work, Two Years After the Arabic Revolutions“. Music, specialisation in Interpretation Music, specialisation in Composition Members of our Department Management Group visited South Africa in order to Music, specialisation in Music Theory further develop our collaboration with the organization called till Star for life. In May Music, specialisation in Organ with Related Keybo- the management group from our world music programmes visited music programmes in ard Instruments Music, specialisation in Symphony Orchestra Istanbul in order to establish future collaborations. Musical Drama Performance During the first week of June approximately 60 opera students and their teachers Acting, specialisation in Deeper Acting Studies filled the Academy (also called Artisten). All higher arts programmes in opera from the Freestanding courses Nordic and Baltic countries were represented. After four intensive days with singing lessons, ensemble song, workshops and social activities, the week ended with a seminar on Music College Angered, is a Folk high school course opera as a profession and an ensemble concert at the Gothenburg Opera. that prepares students for higher education in Music. Visiting Professor Birgitta Sandström, Senior Lecturer in Dancing Teaching Methods at the University of Dance and Circus is a Visiting Professor at the Academy of Music and Drama from the autumn term - for one year. She will be at the Academy to investigate possibilities to develop a dancing teacher programme at the institution.

undergraduate and masters education 2013// 13 From the cover of Fredrik Nyberg’s dissertation in Literary Composition, Hur låter dikten? Att bli ved II, (transl.What is the Sound of the Poem? Becoming Wood II) 2013. Drawing: Leif Elggren DOCTORAL (THIRD-CYCLE) EDUCATION

There were 44 doctoral students (17 men and 27 women) at the Faculty at the end of the year, 13 were Doctoral students/subjects: admitted to the doctoral programme leading to a Doctor or a Licentiate of Fine Arts degree, three are in M F collaborative doctoral programmes from other universities that can not award doctoral qualifications. Design 3 8 During 2013 two doctoral students were awarded Doctor of Fine Arts degrees, four Doctor of Philosophy Digital representation 3 degrees, and one was awarded a Licentiate of Philosophy degree. From 2013 it is also possible to study Estetiska uttrycksformer inr. utb.vetenskap 1 6 for a Doctor of Fine Arts in Design, which means that the Faculty now offers eight subjects leading to Independ. Filmmaking 1 1 artistic doctorates. All eight subjects also have programmes leading to Doctor of Philosophy degrees, and Photography 1 three other subjects have programmes that lead to Doctors of Philosophy only. Photographic Representation 2 Fine Art 2 Crafts 1 2 Faculty Supervisor Group Literary Composition 4 The Faculty Supervisor Group, consisting of 17 principal supervisors, gained official status when the Musical Performance & I n t e r p r e t a ti o n 4 1 Heads of Departments agreed on participation being included in planned working hours, as well as other Music Education 1 activities at the Research School. The group met four times, the agenda included: a supervisor course, Performance in Theatre and discussions on the role of examiners, Rules for Doctoral (Third-Cycle) Studies, and Procedures for Public Music Drama 2 1 Defences. The meetings have been led and administered by the Head of the Research School Karin Wag- Total: 17 27 ner and Senior Faculty Administrator of Doctoral Programmes Anna Frisk. In 2012 two half-day seminars were arranged on: Doctor of Fine Arts’ Degrees and Philosophy Degrees. Invited guests were Ylva Gislén, Head of the Swedish National Research School in the Arts and Visiting Professor Henk Borgdorff.

Faculty Research School The departments at the Faculty run a Research School, which all doctoral students, regardless of subject, are a part of. From 2013 it is led by a steering group with a representative from each department and two doctoral students. The steering group has had six meetings and worked with new template for general syllabuses, course syllabuses, and the planning of activities for the Faculty Research School. During the autumn three base courses were developed and will run on a regular basis. In February during a half-day seminar Otto von Busch spoke about post-doc activities. In October the annual two-day seminar took place, the keynote speaker was Paulo de Assis from the Orpheus Institute in Ghent. The last activity of the year was a half-day seminar in December on the theme of Ethics with Christian Munthe.

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During the year the Valand Academy has had 14 active doctoral students and 7 principal supervisors. A number of assistant supervisors have also supported doctoral students in each respective subject area. During the year a Seminar Series was organised for all doctoral students at the Valand Academy; five seminars were held where doctoral students, together with supervisors and researchers, were given the opportunity to discuss questions related to methods within artistic research. A department research day for all students and staff at the Valand Academy was also arranged. A number of doctoral students at the department gave presentations at the Faculty Research School Residential Seminar in October.

Doctoral Education – In a Process of Development The recruitment of Mick Wilson as Head of Department at the Valand Academy has contributed to the development of research and doctoral programmes at the Academy. Professor Wilson is not only experienced in artistic research but also has experience of leading a research school – having been the Head of the Graduate School of Creative Arts and Media (GradCam) in Dublin (Ireland) between 2008 and 2012, and Head of Research at the National College of Art and Design in Dublin from 2005-2007.

Efforts to develop the administration of doctoral (third-cycle) began during the year by introducing a Director of Studies (or equivalent function) at 20% of a full-time position. In line with the new organisational structure at the University of Gothenburg, department-specific work tasks that were formerly the Faculty Office’s responsibility have now Image taken from Marco Muñoz’ dissertation: Infra- been transferred to department level. faces: Essays on the Artistic Interaction 2013. A still image from a video artwork that was shown at the Valand Academy’s art gallery: Galleri Rotor. Subject Representatives have had regular meetings with Heads of Departments at a Re- search Council where issues related to doctoral education have been discussed. One of the teachers at the Academy has been responsible for developing one of the Faculty-wide doctoral courses entitled “Writing Artistic Research”, which is to be one of the regular base courses provided by the Faculty Research School.

Public Defences of Doctoral Dissertations DOCTORAL (THIRD-CYCLE) EDUCATION Two doctorates have been awarded this year: Fredrik Nyberg defended his dissertation in Literary Composition Hur låter dikten? - Att bli ved II (What is the Sound of the Poem. Becoming Wood II). The external examiner at this public defence was Dr. Jesper Olsson, Research Assistant at Linköping University. This dissertation is the first dissertation in Literary Composition in Sweden. A collection of poems: Att bli ved (Becoming Wood), published by Norstedts Publishing Company, is also an integral part of this dissertation. Fredrik Nyberg was one of five Swedish writers to share the Albert Bonnier’s Stipend of 500 000 SEK. This prize was established in 1901 and is awarded to writers who have published a new work of literary significance.

Hanna Nordenhök was awarded the Gothenburg A doctorate in Digital Representation has also been awarded to Marco Muñoz on 24th newspaper: Göteborgs Posten’s literature prize for August for his dissertation entitled: Infrafaces: Essays on the Artistic Interaction, which 2013. Photo: Sara Moritz also included an exhibition on video artworks: Infrafaces. The paradoxical division of physical and temporal spaces that took place at the Valand Academy’s gallery: Galleri Rotor. The external examiner was Ylva Gislén, Reader and Co-opted Professor at the Fa- culty of Fine and Performing Arts at Lund University, and Head of the Swedish National Research School of the Arts.

New Doctoral Students Hanna Nordenhök was admitted to the doctoral programme in Literary Composition during the year. She is an established writer who was awarded the Gothenburg newspaper Göteborgs Posten’s literature prize for “an authorship that boldly forces its way from lines of poetry to the memorial depth of the novel, where the past both disin- tegrates and is made up of self-illuminating and exactly weighed-up prose”. Another Imri Sandström, performance-presentation in New York, spring 2013 doctoral student in Literary Composition was also admitted during 2013; this was Imri Sandström, who is an artist whose artistic practice includes text, sound, and both still and moving images. Both doctoral places are funded by external sources in the form of research funding from the Swedish Research Council.

doctoral education 2013 // 15 HDK-school OF design AND crafts

During the course of 2013 doctoral research and research projects have been presented in internal seminars at HDK, and discussions on strategies promoting subject development have gained new momentum. Internal efforts to promote subject development and to establish complete environments have run parallel to the international research network that has also gained strength.

EU Projects – Doctoral Projects HDK collaborated with six internationaI partners in the EU-funded (Marie Curie) project TRADERS, www.tr-aders.eu. This project, with its focus on public space, participation and method development, has advertised vacancies for 6 doctoral studentships, of which one of these will be at HDK, and will work in close connection to the masters

Former HDK doctoral student Martin Avila, who is now programme in Child Culture Design. a Senior Lecturer in Industrial Design at the University DESMA is an international doctoral network funded by the EU (Marie Curie), whose College of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm was the focus is design and management. HDK is one of 12 schools and businesses taking part first ever to be granted an international postdoc within artistic research (with a specialisation in Design) by the and has been assigned responsibility for the administration of the network (The Project Swedish Research Council. Photo: Diego Combina Leader and Communications Officer are from HDK). During this year, the second year for this network, an evaluation was carried out by the European Commission, resulting in very good reviews. The external evaluator particularly emphasised the project’s potential to be a leading example of a successful collaboration between higher education and society, as well as a project that enables the development of models and tools with innovative potential. HDK’s two DESMA doctoral students Ariana Amacker and Andrew Whitcomb, held their 25% seminars during the year, and the network launched its new homepage: http://desmanetwork.eu/. HDK has also arranged two doctoral courses for doctoral students belonging to this network.

Public Defences of Doctoral Dissertations

Doctoral student Marcus Jahnke’s public defence of his One of the highlights of this year was Marcus Jahnke’s public defence of his dissertation, dissertation attracted a large audience.of interested which filled the hall at HDK. In his dissertation: Meaning in the Making – Introducing a listeners. Photo: Emanuel Cederqvist Hermeneutic Perspective on the Contribution of Design Practice to Innovation, Jahnke studied what happens if a designer’s professional knowledge and skills are introduced into traditional industrial and engineering business organisations. Marcus Jahnke is the first doctoral student to be awarded a doctorate at the Business & Design Lab.

New Doctoral Students As a part of professional development and strengthening of supervisor skills, teachers at HDK were invited to apply for four externally-funded doctoral places. Birgitta Nord- ström (Crafts) and Joakim Anderson (Arts Education) began their studies during the autumn and Franz James (Design) and Mirjana Vukoja (Design) were admitted during the autumn and begin their studies in 2014. The Gothenburg Crafts Association will fund these doctoral students, and they will be employed at the Röhsska Design Museum in Together with inhabitants from Dunga Beach, Kenya, Gothenburg, but will have their everyday working space at HDK. doctoral student Helena Hansson explores how water hyacinths can be used as a raw material in local crafts. Photo: Helena Hansson Presentations, Conferences and Exhibitions HDK doctoral students Helena Hansson and Helena Kraff conduct doctoral projects connected to MISTRA Urban Future’s research platform in Kisumu, Kenya. Two major research projects Kenya-Ecotourism and Market Places are now underway. Basket craft made of water hyacinths is the central element of this project. Helena Hansson has presented her doctoral project: The Crafted Marketplace at a breakfast seminar at Liljevalchs Art Hall in Stockholm and, together with students, carried out an interactive workshop during the design research conference Crafting the Future in Gothenburg. During the year two visiting doctoral students from Kenya came to HDK: Joshua Otieno Wanga and Frankline Otiende Awuor. Annika Hellman, a doctoral student in Arts Education, presented her licentiate the- sis: Intermezzo in Media Teaching. The Visual Voices and Subject Positionings of Upper A performance entitled Homo Capax by Mårten Medbo Secondary Pupils. Staff and students at the Centre for Educational Science and Teacher who is a doctoral student in Crafts was shown at the Research visited the University of Illinois, USA, where they presented their dissertation Swedish Institute in Paris in February 2013. Photo: Hanna Stahle projects, and gained contacts for future collaborations. Mårten Medbo, doctoral student in Crafts, exhibited works from 1999-2012 at the Swedish Institute and at Galerie NeC in Paris, and Tomas Laurien, doctoral student in Design, curated the shibori exhibition Plenitude at the Swedish Embassy in Tokyo as part of his dissertation project.

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There were 12 doctoral students (five men and seven women) enrolled at the Academy at the end of 2013, five were studying Arts Education, three Performance in Music and Theatre and four Musical Performance and Interpretation (two of these are students on collaborative programmes linked to Luleå University of Technology). Four of the doctoral students are studying for a artistic doctorates, and the remaining three are attending programmes that lead to a Doctor of Philosophy.

Public defences Three public defences of doctoral dissertations have taken place: Sten Sandell defended his dissertation in Musical Performance and Interpretation: On the Inside of Silence – a Study, and became the first doctoral student at the Faculty to be awarded an artistic doctorate. The external examiner was Stefan Östersjö, (Doctor of Fine Arts) from the Malmö Academy of Music. Musicians Nina de Heney, Sofia Jernberg, David Stackenäs and Emil Strandberg, with Fredrik Nyberg (poet) also took part at the public defence. Per Högberg defended his dissertation (Swedish): Organ Singing and Hymn Playing. Performing Congregational Song. The public defence, leading to a Doctor of Philosophy, began in the Vasa Church with a performance of his doctoral project. The external examiner was Professor Peter Peitsalo, from the Sibelius Academy, Helsinki, Finland. Kim Hedås defended her dissertation (Swedish): Lines. Music Moving – Composition Changing, leading to a Doctor of Fine Arts in Musical Performance and Interpretation. The dissertation is a practice-based study of how music relates to that which is not music. External examiner was Henrik Frisk (Ph.D.), from the Academy of Music in Malmö; Sten Sandell’s dissertation also included a box conta- parts of the compositions in the dissertation were performed at the defence. tining three CDs, which made critics jump for joy. He A member of staff at the Academy of Music and Drama, Anders Hultqvist defended also performed vocally and with piano performances his dissertation in Musicology with a specialisation in artistic/creative processes Compo- of his own compositions together with five other musicians, including Nina de Heney, double bass and sition. The Garden–Branching Off. He discusses the artistic, philosophical and cognitive Sofia Jernberg,vocals. contexts of composing, one point of departure is Inger Christensen’s poem Alfabet. The Photo: Heiko Purnhagen external examiner was Ivar Frounberg, Professor at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo. The public defence started with a concert with the music ensemble Gageego, the Gothenburg Symphonic Orchestra, conducted by Anna-Maria Helsing.

New Doctoral Students Two doctoral students were admitted in collaborative doctoral programmes: Victoria Brattström, in Performance in Theatre and Music Drama, will pursue her studies as part of a collaboration between the Academy of Music and Drama and the University Centre for Person-Centred Care at the Sahlgrenska Academy. Victoria will study how an actor’s performance tools enable the development of person-centred care. Tomas Löndahl was admitted in Musical Performance and Interpretation. His project is based on chamber music works by Ludvig Norman, the aim is to develop methods and tools to explore paths that lead to an unending creative virtual room that every notated piece of music acts as a point of departure for. Tomas is pursuing his doctoral studies within the framework of his position as Permanent Secretary at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm.

Conferences, Exchanges and Visits All doctoral students and researchers on the Education/Music Education programmes participated in the Nordic Subject Teacher Conference NOFA4 in Trondheim. The group arranged a symposium on arts-based knowledge in schools and in teacher education, papers were presented by all the doctoral students and researchers in the group. Doctoral students and supervisors also took part in the annual research conference arranged by the University’s Centre of Educational Science and Teacher Research, many of the doctoral students presented conference papers. A majority of our doctoral students on the Musical Performance and Interpretation and the Performance in Theatre and Music Drama programmes presented at the Faculty Research Conference. Johan Petri, doctoral student in Performance in Theatre and Music Drama, spent the spring term at the Department of Performance Studies at Berkeley, University of Califor- nia. All of the doctoral students on the Arts Education programmes visited the University of Illinois together with their teachers Claes Ericsson, Monica Lindgren, Tarja Häikiö and Bengt Jönsson. This group had received an invitation from Professor Liora Bresler at the College of Education. The aim was to create connect to international networks and get an update on current research within the field.

doctoral education 2013 // 17 Anna Lindal, Critical Debate. From the research project Towards an Expanded Field of Art Music, the final report of which was presented during the year. The leader of this research project was .Professor Ole Lützow-Holm at the Academy of Music and Drama. Photo: Misha Pedan research

departments create strategies Publications at the Faculty 2013 How should we remember the Research Year 2013? As far as new research projects are concer- Type of Publication Number ned it was one of those inbetween years. This is also true of the publications, which continued Article, critical review 12 to increase, though at a moderate rate. We can see from the department’s reports that inter- Article, peer reviewed, scholarly 10 Article, other 11 national contacts and conferences are at the same level as previously. What is obvious is that Article, other scholarly 13 2013 is to be remembered as the year when the new organisational structure at the University Book 5 was implemented on a department level, and strategic efforts related to research at the de- Book, with editor 7 Book, peer reviewed 6 partments was initiated. Research became a part of the department management structure, Doctoral dissertation 6 strategic work increased and new staff were appointed to support research activities.

Chapter 12 Chapter, peer reviewed 4 A New International Project: PARSE Conference contribution, peer reviewed 18 For the Faculty, the biggest news was the project, Platform for Artistic Research Sweden – PAR- Conference contribution, other 9 SE, which is a new international project. The cornerstones are: an international peer-reviewed Artistic project 20 Artistc project, peer reveiwed 29 journal for artistic research (a successor to the Faculty journal on artistic research: ArtMoni- Report 1 tor), an international peer- reviewed Conference Series and an Occasional Papers Series. All Other publications 2 of these efforts are to act as a support to department efforts to integrate their research with

Total: 165 international research, to increase publications and to promote contact between the arts and sciences at the University. This venture means that Gothenburg can maintain its position as a centre and meeting place for the development of artistic research in the Nordic countries.

Faculty Seminar Series At Faculty level the Faculty Seminar Series runs as in earlier years. This seminar series focu- ses on supporting research applications, opening new perspectives – in 2013 we focused on Culture and Health – in December our annual research conference took place when this year’s applications were reviewed with the help of external and Faculty examiners.

18 // RESEARCH 2013 VALAND academy development The Valand Academy’s research activities in 2013 continue to grow and build upon the achievements of our four subject areas with the highlight of 2013 being our first ever Annual Research Day, which featured research and artistic development presentations by 27 different members of the academy. The presentations covered a wide range of practices and ideas with some prominent themes emerging across several independent presentations, such as differentinterpretations of queer culture; forms of interdisciplinary dialogue; participation and access to art and culture; forms of authorial, directorial and artistic “voice”; and environmental concerns. However, the most important development here was the exchange between a wide range of researchers, and the opportunity to meet formally and informally. The Annual Research day was programmed as part of all our programmes, and a significant feature of the day was the participation of students, who had an opportunity to see the relationship between the research of their teachers and the educational content of their programmes.

Publications, symposiums and conferences The Valand Academy also played a major role in developing the debate on the doctoral level of education for artists across Europe, contributing to the editing, authoring and publishing of the SHARE Handbook for Artistic Research Education (ELIA, 2013). This new book, which includes two profiles of the Valand Academy doctoral projects (Fredrik Ny- berg and Lars Wallsten), is a major contribution to the development of third cycle studies for the arts in Europe. However, this is only one of several volumes to appear this year under the authorship and editorship of the Valand Academy personnel. Another impor- In 2013 Esther Shalev-Gerz, Co-Opted Professor at tant publishing event this year was the appearance of the volume Esther Shalev-Gerz: the Valand Academy, published her book The Cont- The Contemporary Art of Trusting Uncertainties and Unfolding Dialogues (Idea Books, emporary Art of Trusting Uncertainties and Unfolding Dialogues, edited by Jason E. Bowman 2013) edited by Jason E. Bowman, part of the outcomes of a major VR project. As well as publishing and exhibition activities, the Academy’s researchers were also extremely active in organizing research symposia, conferences and seminars, many of which were also linked to publishing initiatives. These included: Architecture, photography, and the contemporary past, February 18th and 19th; Symposium on Environmental Photography, April 25th; Factories of Memory - Archives Between Taxonomy and Am- nesia, March 5th; Archives Beyond Colour Blindness, September 30th. November 2013 also saw a majorconference in partnership with the Gothenburg International Biennial of Contemporary Art, and with the European Art Research Network (EARN) that explored the thematics of play and the radical imagination. Researchers and artists based in Aka- demin Valand were also prominent as guest speakers at different research events around the world, reflecting the high standing in which Akademy staff are held internationally.

Research Platform - v.arc Akademin Valand also did some long-term strategic planning work for research development by creating a new infrastructure to manage research development within the Academy. Building on the research frameworks of the four subjects areas, the academy has taken the v.arc initiative originally located within fri konst, and expanded this to con- stitute a cross academy research platform. The new “varc” – Valand Academy Research Collaboration – is the platform that contains all our doctoral level work, staff research projects and our collaborations with international partners in the research space. The first step in building this new varc has been the appointment of Tyrone Martensson as

Curator of research and we look forward to seeing the infrastructure that has been defi- The conference Radical Imagination? Provocations ned in 2013 realising its full productive potential in 2014. and Dialogues was arranged at the Academy in colla- Finally, we should indicate something here of the strategic direction that has emer- boration with the Gothenburg International Biennial of Contemporary Art (GIBCA) ged in 2013 for the future development of research at the Academy. In the course of this year’s strategic debate on research within the academy, it has become apparent that the key challenge we face is to prioritise from the many research thematics and partnerships those initiatives that have long term sustainability. It became clear during our Annual Re- search Day presentations that the challenge we face is how to create an integrating nar- rative around the many different strands and topics of research development currently active in the academy. One clear and consistent issue that runs across all our research (and our education) is the preeminent significance of artist-led culture. It is to be antici- pated that as varc unfolds its strands of activity for the future, this priority on artist-led cultures will be a leitmotif across all our subjects and their research development.

RESEARCH 2013 // 19 HDK-SCHOOL OF DESIGN AND CRAFTS

conference och seminars The big research event of the year at HDK was the international conference: Crafting the Future, the focus of which was Design as a field of knowledge within innovation, business development, from a socially sustainable perspective. The seminar: Mapping Contemporary Craft Theories, arranged with the Swedish Crafts Centre and the Röhsska Design Museum, also encouraged discussions on subject development and networking. (read more on page 27) HDK has been an active in the University priority research area, Critical Heritage Stu- dies, where Henric Benesch from HDK is one of two coordinators for a research cluster focusing on cultural heritage and urban studies. This cluster has organised a series of seminars entitled Heritage as common(s) – Common(s) as Heritage where “the commons”

During the design research conference Crafting the Fu- as a notion and practice are examined. Researchers, architects and artists have presen- ture, conference participants and the public were asked ted and discussed this subject. In 2013 HDKs first post doc Evren Uzer von Busch, who is by HDK students to take part in a workshop to create linked to this group, was admitted and began her work. places to play in using willow branches. Photo: Michel Droetto Research Projects In February the EU-funded research project Creativity for Innovation and Growth in Eu- rope was launched. This project involves eleven universities and a focus on the creative industries in Europe. HDK is responsible for design as a driving force, and will develop a framework for describing how design as an artistic practice can contribute to innovation. HDK is part of a collaboration with JOOUST and Maseno University in Kenya, the School of Business, Economic and Law and Chalmers University of Technology through its participation in the research platform: Mistra Urban Futures in Kisumu, Kenya (funded by Sida). In November a festival was held to strengthen cooperation and exchange between academia, society and industry. Professor Maria Nyström and doctoral students Helena Kraff and Helena Hansson presented their work in Dunga Beach, the research fields Eco- tourism and Market Places and HDK’s current research in this field. The research was presented at a breakfast seminar at Liljevalchs Art Hall in Stockholm in May. A pilot tourist holiday was arranged with Kisumu as a new destination – with ten tourists from Sweden. The research project Interplace funded by the Swedish Research Council – Formas, ended in 2013. Henric Benesch, Subject Representative in Design and researcher at HDK, took part in this project and addressed issues on how design and planning can be developed to encourage citizen initiatives. The project took place in two suburbs of Gothen- Publication from the research project Interplace burg. The results were presented in a publication: Framtiden är redan här – den är bara Cover: Rakel Heed Styffe inte rättvist fördelad (transl. The Future is Already Here – It’s Just Not Fairly Distributed) and at a conference in February.

Artist-in-Residence and Visiting Professors Artist-in-Residence at HDK in Steneby this year was Paul Heijnen. The aim of Artist-in-Re- sidence is to bring new knowledge and research to HDK Steneby through interesting de- signers, crafts artists and artists. Paul Heijnen is part of the Droog design group, a Dutch art and design movement that started at the beginning of the 1990s, where a conceptual view of design, content and material are key parts. HDK has had visiting professors during the year: Jorunn Veiteberg and Brett Alexan- der; these professorships are an investment to provide professional development for craft teachers at HDK and strengthening a complete environment. Jorunn Veiteberg’s professorship, which is funded by the Stena Foundation, is from 2013-2015. In 2013 Jorunn Veiteberg has led a reading group for teachers that focused on contemporary crafts theory; he also arranged a number of open seminars where international lecturers/artists have given talks. The artist Brett Alexander (Australia) also contributed to a focus on the global world of textiles with artist presentations, analysis and reflection. Professor Anders Lindseth has led a practice-based writing course for crafts teachers.

Sweden’s First Professor in Sloyd Marléne Johansson, the first professor in Sloyd in Sweden, became professor for the subject group: Visual and Material Culture Marléne Johansson’s research project in Fin- Marléne Johansson, employed at HDK, is Sweden’s first professor in Sloyd, land and her role as Subject Representative for Visual and Material Culture will hopefully Photo: Johan Wingborg increase research activities in Sloyd, in Sweden, too.

20 // RESEARCH 2013 ACADEMY OF MUSIC AND DRAMA research projects The final report of the research project: Towards an Expanded Field of Art Music, funded by the Swedish Research Council was presented in 2013. The project leader was Pro- fessor Ole Lützow-Holm. The project aimed at an in-depth recognition of the role and significance of art music as artistic practice and a field of discourse, comprising musical rehearsal, compositions and concert performances, seminars, symposiums and texts about music. As a part of the project the anthology Musikens frihet och begränsning – 16 variationer på ett tema (transl. The Freedom and Limitation of Music – 16 variations on a Theme) was published by Daidalos. The editor is music writer/critic Magnus Haglund, other contributors are: Ole Lützow-Holm, Anders Hultqvist, musicians Anna Lindal and Anna Christensson, Fredrik Nyberg, poet, Anna Koch, choreographer, writer Jenny Hval. Monica Lindgren and Claes Ericsson have conducted research as part of an evaluative study commissioned by the Swedish Agency of Education. The process has involved a large number of questionnaires answered by teachers, pupils and heads of schools, and observations from music lessons in schools in West and South Sweden. The Torsten Söderberg Foundation donated one million SEK for the continuation of the archiving of books, music and recordings that were donated to the University by the Herbert Blomstedt amongst the books belonging to the world famous Swedish conductor Herbert Blomstedt. During the autumn seminars were Herbert Blomstedt Collection which can now be found arranged, which are expected to result in articles as well as form the basis for further at the University Library. This collection is made up research projects. The point of departure is cross-disciplinary and involves artistic rese- of approximately 500 metres of bookshelves, and are mostly books and music. arch, musicology and religious studies. Photo: Johan Wingborg The Swedish Research Council granted Katarina Karlsson 400 000 SEK for the project: The “Essential” Feminine – An Artistic Inquiry Through Pre-Modern Music (written in swedish). The aim is to illuminate how aspects of femininity have been expressed as our cultural heritage in order to gain increased knowledge of today’s power structures. Two doctoral students in Performance in Theatre and Music Drama presented their ongoing projects at two conferences: Ulf Friberg presented his paper Den kapitalistiska skådespelaren (The Capitalistic Actor) at the ACSIS conference in Norrköping (a conference on Culture Research), and Johan Petri presented his paper Thinking and the Theatrical Event at the symposium: Event in Artistic and Political Practices, at the Nica Institute, Amsterdam. Their supervisor, Cecilia Lagerström, presented her research in two conference papers: Etudes on Silence - Researching the Performative and Performing Research at the conference: CARPA3 - The Impact of Performance as Research, at the Theatre Aca- demy in Helsinki, and Performing, Writing, Screening at the Nordic Summer University, Krets 7 Crossing Contexts – Interventions through Artistic Research, Ulsteinvik, Norway. Cecilia Lagerström and Pia Muchin are involved in the creation of the International Platform for Contemporary Performance Training – an international research platform on performance training from a psycho-physical perspective. This platform is being built up in collaboration with Professor Esa Kirkkopelto at the Theatre Academy in Helsinki and Mark Evans, Simon Murray and Jonathan Pitches from universities in Great Britain.

Lectures, Workshops, and Seminars The Gothenburg International Organ Academy arranged lectures for organ research- Katarina Karlsson was awarded a doctorate in 2011 for her dissertation on gender issues in connection with ers, practitioners, organ builders and students on three themes: 20th Century Music, English songs from the Renaissance period. The above Improvisation, and Early Recordings: Organ Music. The Academy also included master picture was taken when she performed: From Lucia to Pajazzo class, lectures and concerts with Kimberly Marshall, Frédéric Blanc, Martin Herchenrö- , which was part of her dissertation project Photo: Per Buhre der, Ilona Kubiacyzk-Adler, as well as an organ pub and other informal meetings for both Swedish and foreign participants to make new contacts. Is the constant noise of urban environments only a problem of noise or can sound art and artistic research develop how we think and interact in relation to sound and city life? At a lunch lecture, Anders Hultqvist, Staffan Mossenmark and Catharina Dyrssen, members of the artistic research group: Urban Sound Institute (USIT) gave examples of projects, and also discussed issues connected with sound and city life. This lecture was a collaboration with the Association for Design and Advertising in West Sweden.

Visiting Professor and Visiting Researcher As part of the research venture RED 10, Visiting Professor Janez Janša has been a teacher on the Contemporary Performative Arts programme and has had a lecture for the whole department. The world famous organist and researcher Joris Verdin was Visiting Resear- cher and held master classes for students from the Church Music programme.

RESEARCH 2013 // 21 Rope-Making Workshop at the Gothenburg Dance and Theatre Festival 2013 This workshop is a part of Helena Hansson’s research project at HDK (supported by Mistra Urban Futures) – with a focus on sustainable city development and connected to the research platform in Kisumu, Kenya. Photo: Daniel Sjöström collaboration An Arts Faculty must participate in collaborative efforts. Cooperation between the Faculty and other parts of the University, as well as with other authorities, institutions and the world of culture, represents an important and vital part of our activities. Both our research and our educational activities are, to a large extent, set in the public arena, and arts’ outreach is an absolutely essential part of our Faculty’s and our departments’ mission.

Our Faculty takes an active part in the multi-disciplinary research platform: Critical Heritage Studies at the Uni- versity. Critical Heritage Studies is one of the University’s areas of strength whose aim is to strengthen and develop cross-disciplinary and critical research on cultural heritage – in close collaboration with institutions outside academia, and with other higher education institutions both in Sweden and abroad. Members of staff from HDK for example have been in charge of coordinating a series of seminars during the course of the year (read more on page 20). In 2013 a Cultural Heritage Academy was also launched together with Västarvet – West Heritage - Sweden’s largest natural and cultural heritage organisation run by the Västra Götaland Region. During the course of 2013 three major seminars were held: National Museums – A Project in a Crisis?, How can we make space for an Object of World Heritage? and Cultural Heritage and Health. The Coordinator for the Cultural Heritage Academy is Johan Öberg at the Valand Academy. Our Faculty also takes part in the Centre of Expertise and Research in Culture and Health at the University of Gothenburg.

During the course of the year we have worked actively with the City of Gothenburg; we have for example worked together with the city of Gothenburg’s EU-funded project on city development called Utveckling Nordost (Deve- lopment North East) to establish arts programmes in the north east suburbs of Gothenburg, to attract a wider range of candidates to Faculty programmes and to find new places in north east Gothenburg for preparatory arts programmes and academic arts programmes to be run.

Our Faculty is also an active member of the network for higher arts institutes: the European League of Institutes of the Arts (ELIA), which enables us to have a platform for global collaboration. During the year ELIA arranged an Academy for Teachers, a student festival: Neu/Now and a Leadership Symposium.

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The Valand Academy is an outward-going department that values collaboration. Out- National collaborations reach and exchange of ideas and experiences outside of the Academy is essential for • Roy Cinema department activities. Our department aims to work for filmmakers, artists, photograp- • Blå Stället Arts and Culture Centre • Gothenburg Book Fair hers, writers and other artistic practitioners to be influential actors in society through • Centre for Urban Studies their knowledge and skills. The Academy’s vision is to have close ties with the arts, cultu- • FilmCloud ral and business sectors, both nationally and internationally. Our department also works • Film i vä st (regional film fund) with collaborative efforts to create opportunities for our students, teachers and resear- • Adult Education Centre in Angered chers to reach out to the public, and take part in boundary crossing collaborations, and • Fotografins hus (House of Photography) in Stockholm to expand our collaborations with international contacts. • GIBCA • Gothenburg International Film Festival National and International Partners • Gothenburg Art Hall In dialogue with the surrounding community our department aims to influence the public • Gothenburg Poetry Festival debate. Since the autumn of 2013 our Academy has an Assistant Head of Department for • The Hasselbald Foundation/ Centre • Kultur i Väst (the Västra Götaland’s Cultu- Development responsible for the department’s external cooperations, Gunilla Burstedt. ral Administration) She has done an inventory of what collaborative partners the department has after the • Film Festival for Children in Båstad four-subject merger that formed the new Valand Academy in 2012. You will find a list of • Literature House in Gothenburg our department’s nationaI and international partners in the right-hand column. • Röda Stena Art Hall in Gothenburg • Tempo Documentary Film Festival • Development North East Gothenburg Collaborative Projects The Gothenburg International Biennial of Contemporary Art (GIBCA): Speak Easy International collaborations In September the Valand Academy presented the event: Speak Easy in collaboration with • CILEC T, University and Higher Arts Institu- the Gothenburg International Biennial of Contemporary Art (GIBCA); The event took te Network for Film and Television. place in the Glass House at the academy, and included panel talks and artists’ presen- • CIRRUS, network for Art and Design in the Nordic and Baltic countries i tations. Speak Easy was a part of the Academy’s Startup Week at the beginning of the • CUMULUS University and Higher Arts Insti- autumn term and led up to the official opening of the art biennial. A summer course in tute Network for Art, Design and Media Exhibition Curating was given in collaboration with GIBCA and the biennial came to an • EACWP, European Netwrok for Writers. end on 14th-16th November with the conference: On Radical Imagination: Dialogues and • ELIA, European League of Institutes of the Provocations, which was arranged by and took place at the Valand Academy, where a Arts • Glasgow School of Art, Scotland number of Swedish and international lecturers took part. • Kanazawa College of Art, Kanazawa, Japan • KUNO, Higher Arts Institutes Network in The Gothenburg Poetry Festival: A Packet of Bahman, Please the Nordic and Baltic countries. The Valand Academy has had a long collaboration with the Gothenburg Poetry Festival • NORDICIL, Noridc Film Schhol’ Network. through our Literary Composition programme. This year the writers’ talk between the • Suchitr a Center for Film and Drama, Bangalore India. poet Khashayar Naderehvandi, Visiting Lecturer at the Literary Composition Unit, and • Srishti School of Art, Design and Technolo- writer Marjaneh Bakhtiari, closed the Festival. During the festival the project: A Resistan- gy, Bangalore India. ce Movement On My Desk in the journal Kritiker (transl:The Critic) was also presented; • University of the Arts/ Wimbledon/ Cam- in this project, six Swedish female poets translated six Iranian poets. One of the Iranian berwell and Chel sea, Engl and. poets contributed to a course at the Literary Composition Unit, and one of the Swedish poets who took part was Jenny Tunedal, Senior Lecturer in Literary Composition.

The Hasselbald Foundation: The International Photographic Symposium The Hasselblad Foundation and the University have arranged research symposiums with well-established international photographers, researchers, theoreticians and historians since 2009. During 2013 two symposiums were held at the Valand Academy: Archives Beyond Colour Blindness and Spana på grannarna - finsk och norsk samtidsfotografi (transl: Spy On Your Neighbours – Finnish and Norwegian Contemporary Photography).

The Pre-School Kakburken (transl. The Biscuit Tin): Children’s Film School The journal Kritiker (The Critic), Gothenburg Poetry Children at the pre-school Kakburken, in Linköping, have been exploring their local area Festival 2013. Photo: Nora Bencivenni through the a camera lense. This venture is part of the project entitled Vårt Ryd, which is a collaboration between the Valand Academy and the Swedish Film Insitute. Stina Wilén, the curator, has conducted this project in close dialogue with her former teachers on the curator programme at the Academy: Linda Sternö, Kalle Boman and Mats Olsson.

Open House: Valand Academy Open House is an annual tradition at the Valand Academy the aim of which is to make our department both visible and accessible to the public. On Friday 29th November 2013 several hundred visitors came to the Academy buildings to be involved in creating a digital Christmas Calendar, to visit our students’ studios, to take a look at admissions films, performance events and exhibitions, as well as eating dumpster food and listening to GIBCA Conference: Radical Imagination: Provoca- teachers’ presentations of Academy programmes. tions and Dialogues. Photo: Kjell Caminha

COLLABORATION 2013 // 23 HDK-SCHOOL OF DESIGN AND CRAFTS

Through collaborations, open lectures and exhibitions HDK is continuing to claim space in society. Courses and projects are being carried out with organisations and the business sector. Due to the many requests we receive, we choose the partners whose views and approaches that cohere to our specialisation and our view on knowledge.

Third-Stream Activities Our Design programmes in Gothenburg have been working on the social dimension of the concept of sustainability for several years now. One example is the collaboration with the Culture Centre - Blå Stället in the suburb of Angered. Our students formulated their own design projects by taking the needs, wishes and possibilities that they iden-

Students from the Iron & Steel/Public Space program- tified at ‘Blå Stället’ into consideration. Another example was the project with street me created environments for people to sit down on/in children in Pondicherry, India (see p. 10). at Rosendal’s Gardens in Stockholm. Sitt vackert (transl Sit Nicely) was a collaboration between Rosendal’s Gardens in Photo: Jan Hilmersson Stockholm and the Iron & Steel/Public Space programme, year 1, at HDK at Steneby. Stu- dents were assigned the task of designing and producing an object for people to sit down outside. This programme also collaborated with the municipality in Gothenburg, where students examined how objects in Färjenäs Park in Gothenburg can activate an observer. The project Goats on Furniture, with the local companies: Dals Spira Goat’s Milk Dairy in Rännelanda and Näsbön Beef and Goat’s Milk Products in Rölanda focused on material sustainability and the sustainability of local techniques. (see p. 10)

Collaborative Partners HDK has many long-term partners. Examples of these are the Gothenburg municipality, Akademiska Hus, The Röhsska Design Museum, The Crafts Centre, Stockholm, the Market Bike by Martin Horgan was shown at HDK Swedish Exhibition Agency, Kompan (a global provider of playgrounds), Alfons Åberg’s Steneby’s exhibition space at the Stockholm Furniture Cultural Arts Centre. New partners established in 2013 are: Business Sweden, Vandalo- Fair. This bike is a mobile market place that has been adapted to a busy city environment. rum Art and Design Centre, Vasakronan (a property company), Lego and others. Photo: Valdemar Lindekrantz During the Stockholm Furniture Fair, Business Sweden showed an interest in our master’s programe: Child Culture Design, which led to an exhibition at the Swedish Embassy in Tokyo during “Sweden Kids Week Tokyo”. (see p. 16) Our collaboration with Vasakro- nan, Sweden’s largest property company, is pursued as part of the Business & Design masters programme. Here students work to develop the organisation through design. Our Textile Art students carried out a project with the Gothenburg Transmission Belt Factory, a living Industrial Museum, which resulted in the exhibition Reminiscense. Stu- dents learnt how to use the machines and created installations. Art of Change was a project with Textile art students and Akademiska Hus, resulting in an exhibition on the Chalmers University of Technology’s campus. In April our Visual Arts programme arranged its annual network meeting for Visu- al Arts teachers, this year on the theme: “visual arts and pedagogics”. Teachers from this programme have also taken part in the regional project KLIV: Kultur och Lärande i Business Sweden invited our master’s programme Child Vardagen. (transl. Culture and Learning in Everyday Life), the aim was to inspire teach- Culture Design, as the only programme to take part in ers to find forms of teaching where the cultural sector and schools can work together. Sweden Kids Week at the Swedish Embassy in Tokyo. It attracted a great deal of attention and hit the record for Sloyd teachers have taken part in development work organised by SLUGis: the national the amount of visitors ever to have visited the embassy network for Sloyd programmes in Sweden. previously. Photo: Carl-Johan Skogh Two series of seminars have run parallel during the year; these are the Design Subject Group’s series: Making/Narratives and the Crafts Subject Group’s series: Forum. Teach- ers from the Visual Arts Subject Group have held a number of open lectures on the evaluation of arts subjects. Lectures have also been held for heads of schools in the region. Our collaboration with ADA (Association for Design and Advertising) has developed during the year and the already established lunch lectures are now arranged together with the Swedish School of Textiles in Borås, the Academy of Music and Drama, and the Chalmers University of Technology. Other well-attended lectures during the year have been with the designer Jurgen Bey, Steinunn Sigurdadottir the fashion designer, and the winner of the Gothenburg Sustainable Development Prize: Janine Benyus’ lecture.

Exhibitions Art of Change was arranged as a collaboration between our Textile Art students and ‘Akademiska Hus’. Here we Several teachers have had exhibitions both in Sweden and abroad. These include: Renata can see Annie Johansson’s work on site at the Chalmers Francescon in Paris, Karin Johansson in the US, Mats Aldén at the Stockholm Furniture University of Technology. Fair, Kari Steihaug and Mia Göransson in Norway, Birgitta Nordström at the Hälsingland Museum. And Birgitta Nordström was awarded the Church of Sweden’s Cultural Prize.

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Having a public audience is a fundamental part of studies and for students at the Aca- demy of Music and Drama our event programme each term enables students to meet people from the surrounding community.

Artisten ‘Artisten’ is the name of the building where the Academy is located and where approximately 15,000 people came to listen and watch approximately 270 events during the course of the year. Here are some examples:

Kulturnatta (Gothenburg Culture Night) attracted large audiences, and both students and staff performed from 7 in the evening to 12 midnight.

Our Open House took place on 15th November. Students and teachers took part in de- mos, rehearsals, practice sessions and lectures for an audience of students studying arts programmes at Upper Secondary School and Folk High Scools.

The Ljunggren Competition for Young Musicians, co-arranged with the Ebba and Gustav Ljunggren’s Foundation’s Memorial Fund, took place for the sixteenth year. New for 2013 was that the winner performed as a soloist with the Academy’s Symphony Orchestra. Professor Kjell Ingebretsen (Royal Court Conductor) has previously been the Head of the Gothenburg Opera He A new collaborative partner for 2013 was the Göteborg International Film Festival who is now Artistic Director for our masters programme in Symphonic Orchestra Performance and conducts 2-3 chose to screen approximately 40 films at ‘Artisten’. The academy also arranged two productions each academic year. seminars, both connected with film. Photo: Johan Wingborg

The Academy is also a member of the acting network ‘Trappan’ which offers training for students and staff. A number of courses have taken place at the Academy, and we have Orchestera on tour In 2013 our master’s programme in Symphonic Or- taken part in a so-called ‘Acting Branch Day’ at the Cultural Centre, ‘Lagerhuset’. During chestra Performance began to tour under the name: the year we established contact with the Association for Design and Advertising – ADA; University of Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. and a joint lunch lecture was held at ‘Artisten’. During the spring of 2013 the orchestra gave guest performances in concert halls in Gothenburg, Upp- sala, Vara and Örebro in Sweden, and at the renow- Other Performance Arenas ned Tivoli Gardens and Fun Park in Copenhagen. Teachers and students also perform in other arenas in Gothenburg. Composition and In- During the autumn the orchestra has played one more time at the Gothenburg Concert Hall, and also dividual Performance students often use Röda Sten Konsthall. Our World Music students played the part of ambassador, representing the perform in ‘Musikens Hus’ when they take part in the Planeta Festival, and together University of Gothenburg at concerts for the Acade- with Improvisation students they also arrange concerts in the Bethlehem Church. Our my of Engineering Science, where His Majesty the King was present; the orchestra has also played for students also give concerts at the Röhsska Design Museum, at the Jonsered Mansion, participants at the Quality Conference: EQAF. as well as at a number of churches. Acting and Musical Theatre students studying on the bachelors’ programmes have one-term placements at different theatre institutions The orchestra collaborates with the Gothenburg Opera Company, and took part in two Wagner con- around the country. And some of our student groups are given the opportunity to go on certs during the autumn term, when two musicians tour with music organisations from different counties in Sweden. and instruments were borrowed from our orchestra to play with two of the most famous Wgner opera singers: Annalena Persson and Anders Lorentzson. Collaborative Projects and Networks The Academy is a member of the network run by Development North East Gothenburg to promote widening participation and more activities in the suburbs from the University. Our most important contribution is The Music College in collaboration with the Folk High School in Angered and the Orchestra School: El Sistema. (see p. 30). For the first time ever, one of the students’ final productions was filmed with the help of University TV and streaming. The much acclaimed performance of the musical Rent which was a collaboration between the Academy and ‘Stadsmissionen’ (transl. City Mission), which is a non-profit humanitarian organisation in Gothenburg, was very suc- cessfully broadcasted live at the Acting Biennial in Jönköping in May. Spela Jämnt (transl. Play Equal) – a project to train women for management positions in the music sector arranged a two-day course in Gothenburg, at the Academy, in order to learn more about our project in Equality and Diversity. The Academy collaborated with Svensk Scenkonst (Association for Swedish Performing Arts). The musical Rent directed by Staffan Aspegren was a great success. Beside students from our musical theatre International cooperation exits in different forms, in the networks AEC, ANMA, ELIA programmes four musicians and amateur actors from the and ICON as well as Nordplus and Erasmus. The academy is the coordinateing school for non-profit organsiation ‘Stadsmissionen’ also took part. ten european universities in ten european countries in the project IICS - Interdisciplinary Photo: Johan Wingborg Involvement and Community Spaces. During the year the network arranged its second meeting in Cork, Ireland.

COLLABORATION 2013 // 25 valand academy The year 2013 was a key ment for Quality Assurance and the Curator of Research. These year in the building of a new three roles were created as special task assignments for existing Academy from the merge of staff members to help consolidate an Academy wide approach film our subjects: Film, Fine Arts, to development, quality assurance and research development. photography Photo, and Literary Compo- Another key development in this area has bene the building of sition. The leadership team much stronger student representation and participation in the fine arts for the academy (compri- Academy’s formal decision and planning boards. We now have sing the Heads of Units, Sub- a system of student-led representation, with class represen- literary composition ject Groups, a Deputy Head tatives nominated by each progarmme year group, and active of Department, an Adminis- presence of students on all major boards. This has been a very trative Manager, Assistant important process in building the academy and addressing some Heads of Departments and of the legacy issues form the re-organisation process itself. a Head of Department) established in late 2012 a set of 2013 was a very important year for educational development operational priorities for with the planning andrecruitment for a new Masters program- the year 2013. These priori- me in Literary Translation. This is a very important developme- ties were based on building nt for the academy, marking out our identity as a centre for a an organisation from the global perspective on contemporary Swedish art, literature and merger. culture. As well as the development of new programmes, we have been working in the development of a new approach to The merger had created an fri stående kurs with an emphasis on creating new pathways of “Idea” of a new organisa- introduction and access to the academy. In 2013 we delivered tion in 2012, but the task for new courses such as “Introduction to contemporary art and phi- 2013 was to bridge between losophy” which were designed to attract new people into our abstract idea and concrete education by creating a Bachelor level course that was designed Mick Wilson, Head of department, practices and realities. We to introduce non-artists to contemporary artissues and debates. Valand Academy. Photo: Johan Wingborg took on the task of building This new thinking has also been important in shaping our app- a new organisation that was capable of working strategically, roach to the summer courses we offer. establishing routines for linking between day-to-day operational management and longer term strategic planning. While this In summer 2013 we delivered the first Valand Summer Academy, is very much a matter of the basics of organisational practice that brought hundreds of students into the academy during the (budgetary processes, advance place production planning, time- summer period and opened up access to the Academy to stu- tabling, staff development planning, and sharing standard prac- dents who had not previously studied here. Many of the cour- tices) it was not a simple matter to build a coherent organization ses we offer during the Summer Academy are designed to give from four disparate traditions. We believe that the success of introductions to contemporary art ideas and practices. Another our work in achieving basic organisational cohesion is manifest important development in the Summer Academy was the esta- in new developments within teaching, learning, research, and blishment of informal student clubs and parallel eventsincluding samverkan. These new developments have all become possible a weekly screening programme of experimental artists’ film; a for us because of laying the right foundations. weekly meal and conversation event in the student kitchen; and a “listening club” where students from the summer academy We have built three new cross-academy forums: (i) the All-aca- presented examples of different musical cultures and experi- demy Masters students forum; (ii) the All-academy Bachelor stu- mental audio art to each other. dents forum; and (iii) “Frank Forum”. These are regular meetings that create an informal space of exchange of ideas and practices In Fall 2013 we began the year with a special “speak easy” event between students and teachers from the different subject areas to mark the beginning of the Gothenburg International Bienna- in the Academy. These forums are not only about showing and le of Contemporary Art which brought international artists and telling each other about new developments in each artistic field, curators into informal exchange and dialogue with students and they are also platforms for generating new artistic production. staff at the Valand Academy. This informal social and educatio- As well as these spaces of encounter, we also had new interac- nal event marked the beginning of a new energy in our artistic tions between our educations, one example of this was a highly miljo whereby the academy announced itself as a resource for successful BA year 2 shared course collaboration between pho- the wider arts scene in Gothenburg city and the Västra Götland tography and Fine Arts; and another was the development of region. Later in the fall, this partnership with GIBCA resulted in a shared approach to professional development between our a major conference marking the close of the biennale. Masters programmes in Fine Arts and in photography. 2013 was also a year for development planning of our locales, In parallel with the building of informal contexts of encounter with the major decision being made to consolidate the Academy and dialogue, we have also been further building the formal in one location at Vasagatan, by moving Film from Viktoriaga- cross academy structures. One important development here has tan. This project to renew our locals and to create a new dyna- been the creation of three new cross academy roles: Assistant mic of interaction between subjects has been called “Crossing Head of Department for development, Assistant Head of Depart- The Yard” in reference to our wish to create a lively exchange

26 // VALAND ACADEMY 2013 and circulation of people, ideas and art practices between all four subjects. 2013 was the first year in what will be a three year process that will culminate in one of the most lively city centre art school environments.

This year was also a year for new approaches to staff development. We place special significance on the role of the academy as a place for learning and research for all, not just for our students, which is of course the key priority, but for all of us who work here. For this reason a new approach has been developed this year which has looked at the role of international partnership, in facilitating the creation of a dynamic environment for colleagues to explore the possibility of enhancing their qualifications or their opportunities for research development. A series of workshops have been initiated in dialoguewith the University of the Arts London inviting colleagues to consider whattheir own personal research development agenda is for the coming years and how the academy can work to facilitate and integrate this into the operations of the academy.

International exchange and partnership building has been a very important area of activity for the academy this year. Teachers and researchers form Akademin Valand have been involved in exchanges with colleagues from all over the world including, Europe, North America, Asia, and Australasia. Our teachers and researchers have been invited, as highly sought after ‘thought Tjolöholm Castle, masters students in Fine Art Kjell Caminha, May I Be Happy Here, 2013, Sound installation. leaders’ in their subjects, to join interdisciplinary teams around the world. They have through various key networks (ELIA, SHA- RE, EARN, CILECT, CUMULUS, KUNO and others) initiated international events, dialogues and opportunities for our students and teachers to experience the different perspectives that come form different parts of the world. Through these networks we have also been able to attract many leading international artists, writers, curators, critics, photographers, and scholars to come and spend time in Gothenburg interacting with our students and staff.

The building of an academy of arts is a long-term process. It re- quires balancing between the day-to-day dynamic operational needs of art-making and art teaching, and the need for longer term planning and strategic vision and investment, based on mid- and long-term goals. In 2013 we have placed the emphasis on stabilizing the foundations of our education, research and Fredrika Anderson, masters student Fine Art (valand13) samverkan by addressing the internal “house-keeping” issues of establishing routines, building relationships, and sharing standard pravctcies for day-to-day work. W ebelieve that this internal work is necessray so that we can operate as a reliable and professional partner to external regional and international players. However, although we are building for the longer term, already in 2013 we believe that we can see the good results from this approach.

Mick Wilson

Performance To Give And To Hold bv Snövit Mina Hedstierna; Masters exhibition, Valand Academy, May 4th-5th 2013 Photo: Hendrik Zeitler

VALAND ACADEMY 2013 // 27 We can look back on a working year filled with positive and successful events. It is gratify- ing to take part in the general debate on the importance of creative subjects for the development of new industries in Sweden. During the year we have worked with the imple- mentation of the University of Gothenburg’s Vision for 2020. After having worked according to the new system for nearly two years, we are now able to see more clearly the advanta- ges of working long term and strategically with measurable Anna Norrgrann’s degree project Mellan Yta och form (transl. Between Surface and goals in the form of Action and Form) was chosen to be shown at the 2013 Galerie Marzee Graduate Show in Holland. Photo: Emanuel Cederqvist Operational Plans. The consequences of the into undergraduate (first-cycle) education and that our students University’s new organisatio- benefit from this investment. We are planning to further st- nal structure for our depart- rengthen our research environment with two new doctoral stu- ment has crystallised. Strategic dentships in 2014. investments have been made We have done thorough work to get our department’s finan- in our administration to solve ces in balance. Together with The Steneby School Foundation the allocation of work in an we discuss on a regular basis how we can create a stable colla- efficient and professional way. boration between our schools. As transparency increases, both The new work tasks that conti- schools obtain more insight and we are confident that we have a nue to drop in for our depart- well-functioning and long-term collaboration ahead of us. Bitte Nygren, Head of department, HDK. ment, and the increased work Fotograf: Johan Wingborg load due to more teacher edu- A lot of hard work has been invested by our department in pre- cation courses assigned to our school, has required a number of paring for the Swedish Higher Education Authority’s quality new recruitments at our administration. Other units have star- evaluation of higher arts programmes. We look forward to the ted to map their future needs and what qualifications are requi- results in 2014. We can see that the work on self-evaluations red. Profiles for a number of key positions have been drawn up; and the investments prioritised during the year will strengthen these include: five professors (three in Design, one in Textile Art all of our programmes in the long run. During the year HDK has and one at the Business and Design Lab), a research coordinator, arranged two international conferences of importance for our and a number of teachers to ensure that we cope with the extra department’s activities and network: Crafting the Future and number of full-time equivalent students during 2014. Mapping Contemporary Craft Theories. These conferences will have a long-term effect on our activities for some time to come. An important catch phrase given priority to in 2013 is “complete Our amazing students and doctoral students have demon- environments”. HDK wants the students, early in their educa- strated their knowledge at both national and international are- tion, to come into contact with and gain an understanding of nas. Business Sweden invited the Child Culture Design program- the artistic research environment at the Faculty. Due to the fact me as the only education to take part in Sweden Kids Week at that we belong to an arts faculty, our researchers, teachers and the Swedish Embassy in Tokyo. Students and teachers from the students can find stimulating research environments where a Jewellery Art and Design programme did an exhibition about constructive critical mass provides them with creative and aca- HDK at the JOYA Fair in Barcelona. One of our doctoral students demic dialogue. The new research platform will strengthen the exhibited his works in Paris, another doctoral student curated Faculty’s ambitions to be at the forefront in artistic research. an exhibition in Tokyo, and a third doctoral student presented HDK is an active part in the development of the Faculty-wide re- her work at Liljevalchs Art Hall in Stockholm – to name but a search project on sustainable development, HUGU (Sustainable few. Marcus Jahnke’s public defence of his dissertation was one Development at the University of Gothenburg). of the year’s most well-attended events. We are delighted that To further encourage our staff’s interest in research and so many show interest in our students and doctoral students! specialisation, we have made a particular investment for teach- Assignments continue to rain down on our Sloyd and Visual ers at HDK and created four studentships leading to licentiate arts programmes. A Senior Lecturer from our Sloyd Teacher Pro- degrees. The enthusiasm of those who have been selected is ob- gramme is commissioned by the Swedish Agency for Education vious and we believe that this will inspire others to take part in to conduct the national subject evaluation in Sloyd. The aim is to professional development of this kind. A strategic complement map teaching and goal attainment in lower secondary subjects. to this effort is an increase in funding for artistic developme- Another comission came to the teachers from the Visual Arts nt work. It is important that the knowledge gained goes back programme to produce assessment support for Visual Arts for

28 // HDK- SCHOOL OF DESIGN AND CRAFTS 2013 teachers in classes 4-6 (10-12-year-olds). A new preliminary project plan for the Swedish Agency for Education was also completed. Vi- sual Arts and Sloyd Teacher programmes are to produce material for mapping new pupils’ knowledge of these subjects. This material is to be used to ensure that pupils are put in the right class and to form a base to plan their future studies. We have expanded our collaboration with the Association for Design and Advertising - ADA to draw attractive guest lecturers to Gothenburg. We also actively work with the Swedish School of Tex- tiles in Borås, Chalmers University of Technology and the Academy of Music and Drama to create interesting research programmes. During their studies at HDK we would like our students to feel national and international influences passing through. The management at HDK strives for an active dialogue with stu- Yu Nung-Lin, Child Culture Design, received the Carl Larsson Stipend for her degree project: Everchanging Scenery. Photographer: Yu Nung-Lin dents, both through our own union section and through ‘Konstkå- ren’ - the students’ union at the Faculty. We meet every month to eat lunch, and if need arises. Together we strive for the students to have a good base the perseverance they need, so after completing their studies they go out in society and contribute to a creative and a better world.

Bitte Nygren

CRAFTING THE FUTURE – International design conference On 17th-19th April the Business & Design Lab, arranged the conference: Crafting the Future - 10th European Academy of Design Confe- rence with focus on design as a field of knowledge within innovation and business development with a socially-sustainable perspective. The conference was a collaboration with the Röhsska Design Museum and the City of Gothenburg. More than 250 people from around the world attended, which meant that the number of participants doub- led compared to previous years with a wider diversity of countries, for example from Asia, Africa and South America. This year’s conference concentrated on community engagement by collaborating with the Röhsska Design Museum where one of the researchers gave a public lecture. Participants in the conference were offered a guided tour of the museum and the museum was used as a meeting arena. Two workshops were carried out together with the Röhsska Design Muse- um, ADA, Lots Design and teachers, doctoral students and students at HDK. The public were also invited to take part by building a play- ground in willow branches in Vasaparken.

MAPPING CONTEMPORARY CRAFT THEORIES

On 8th-9th November the seminar Mapping Contemporary Craft Theo- ries took place in collaboration with the Röhsska Design Museum and the Crafts Centre. The theme, Contemporary Craft Theories attracted 150 participants, many from the Nordic countries. The programme included international lecturers such as Martina Margetts (Senior Lecturer at the Royal College of Arts, London), Ezra Shales (Reader at Camilla Lundblad Iliefski, teacher at HDK, was in charge of the design the Massachusetts College of Art, USA), Liesbeth den Besten, writer of the conference: Crafting the Future. and curator and an expert in modern jewellery art from Holland and Jessica Hemmings (Professor at the National College of Art & Design, Ireland). Mårten Medbo, doctoral student in Crafts and Jorunn Veite- berg, Visiting Professor at HDK, also took part in this seminar which encouraged discussions on subject development and network-building. The seminar was carried out with the support of funding from IASPIS and the Estrid Eriksson’s Foundation.

HDK- SCHOOL OF DESIGN AND CRAFTS 2013 // 29 academy of Our Academy has one more year, been filled with an abun- music and drama dance of diverse activities. Its location and poetic address music Fågelsången 1, No. 1 Bird theatre Song, beside ‘Näckrosdam- men’ – the Lily Pond Park, in musical the heart of Gothenburg’s cultural district, and close to opera the busy pulse of Korsvägen, is a source of inspiration and exciting associations. The activities that have taken place at our department during 2013 are, more than ever, marked by the concepts: cross roads Children and music belong together. A number of our programmes collaborate junction and meeting place. with children and teachers in El Sistema, both on site, in schools and at the At our Academy: nature and Academy (as you can see here). Photo: Linnéa Andersson culture meet; meetings take place between teaching and Freestanding Courses learning and the arts and sci- During the spring and autumn of 2013 the course: El Sistema – ences. In our work intellectual Music as a Tool for Social Development was offered at the Aca- and hopefully spiritual acti- demy. This course is intended for music teachers and musicians, vities also meet. People from who meet teachers and heads of El Sistema schools or do study different backgrounds, with visits to El Sistema activities in Gothenburg. This course combi- different skills and values have nes musical elements with discussion on the role of music in so- Anna Maria Koziomtzis, Acting Head of Department. Photo: Johan Wingborg studied, explored, performed, ciety. Students take part in different ensembles and participate given critique, assessed, dis- as musicians as well as ensemble leaders, and a lot of scope is cussed and worked together. Our old traditions have been chal- given to allow for the potential of group tuition. Communica- lenged and developed through new techniques. We stand at a tion, Role-modelling, high-quality musical repertoire, organisa- crossroads where we need to make choices as well as priorities tion and community engagement skills. In the spring of 2014 the for the future, they are associated with creativity and pleasure, course will be offered in three parts, following each other. though sometimes also grief and pain. Can an organisation be more exciting... like a rich and passionate life! Master’s Programme in Symphonic Orchestra Performance Students and teachers from this programme have had and are Anna Maria Koziomtzis also planning projects together with pupils and teachers from El Sistema-Gothenburg. Teachers from the Academy prepare Attracting students from a diversity of backgrounds and parti- repertoires that can be played together. The children from EL pating in the cultural life of Gothenburg are important ingre- Sistema visit the Academy and students from the Academy, to- dients in the Academy’s plans for the future. We would like to gether with their teachers, visit the Cultural School then a fi- highlight two projects that aim at both of these and that have nal ‘family’ concert takes place, where both parents and other taken important steps forward during the course of 2013: El-Sistema children also take part.

Trip to Caracas El Sistema In November, the Head of the Classical Performance Unit, An- The Academy’s collaboration with El Sistema, a choir and or- ders Köllerström, Helena Wattström, Head of the Music Educa- chestra school with music as a tool for social development is de- tion Unit, and Maria Larsson, International Coordinator, went to veloping all the time, and new activities have been introduced. Caracus to look into the possibilities of establishing an exchange programme with a university/conservatory that has links to El Research Sistema in Venezuela. Our Academy representatives’ visit to Monica Lindgren is presently working on the research project: Venzuela coincided with a delegation from El Sistema Sweden’s El Sistema – Conditions for Musical Learning and Identity in an visit as well representaitves from the Gothenburg and the Stock- Intercultural Context. She is studying the collaboration between holm Concert Halls’ representatives’ visit to El Sistema in the the Angered Cultural School and the Gothenburg Symphony Or- Caracas region. chestra. The aim of the project is to study what conditions are necessary to enable musical learning, and to examine how iden- El Sistema’s Administration Located at the Academy tity is created in the activities of El Sistema. The project is lead The El Sistema Organisation in Gothenburg has had its adminis- by Monica together with Åsa Bergman from the Department of tration at the Academy since January 2013, which has created Cultural Sciences at the University. The findings of this project new contacts between this organisation and our programmes, have been presented at conferences in Munich and Gothenburg. members of staff and students.

30 // ACADEMY OF MUSIC AND DRAMA 2013 Mist Þhorkelsdóttir, New Head of Department at the Academy of Music and Drama Photo: Heida.is new head of department at the academy of music and drama Staffan Rydén was appointed Västra Götaland Region’s Cultural Director in the spring of 2013 and left his position as Head of Department at the Academy in September. A recruiting group was appointed during the summer and led by the dean Ingrid Elam, and also included staff and student representatives. After advertisments, Together with 2nd-year students from the Academy’s Acting programme, Nemanja Sto- interviews and tests, a proposal was put forw- janovis and Vistor Ståhl took part in the performance Fyra roller söker en pjäs (Four Roles rard to all members of staff who were entitled to Looking for a Play); this performance took place in the autumn term vote. On the 2nd of January 2014 Ingrid Elam ap- Photo: Johan Wingborg pointed the Icelandic composer and Director of Music at the Iceland Academy of the Arts as the new Head of Department. Per Anders Nilsson performing arts forum will be the new Deputy Head of Department. Promotions, Prizes and Awards This seminar series has two aims: the one is to increase the acting programme’s con- In 2013, the University Vice-Chancellor, Pam tacts with the professional world of acting, and the second aim is to take a more Fredman, has appointed Staffan Aspegren as Visiting Professor in Musical Drama and promo- active part in the public debate. Two new programmes in this field have recently ted Per Anders Nilsson to Professor in Musical been established; these are the master’s programme in Acting and the master’s pro- Performance and Interpretation with a speciali- gramme in Contemporary Performative Arts. Both our masters’ programmes and our sation in Sound and Media Production, and Ole Lützow-Holm to Professor in Composition. bachelors’ programmes have expressed the need to have more in-depth dialogue on the different aspects of the craft of acting and on acting as an art form from a contemporary and historical perspective.

These requests have resulted in a series of seminars that have been open to the public and that have attracted between 40 and 70 listeners on a number of Monday eve- nings. A specific request has been to reach out to other performing artists, and this was the reason for choosing Mondays. In the seminars that took part in the autumn term we have collaborated with the Gothenburg City Theatre and with ‘Trappan’ (The Stairway), which is an organisation that organises professional training courses for actors, musicians and filmmakers. During the spring of 2013, the concepts ‘presence’ and ‘stage’ were discussed. And during the autumn this forum has focused on diversity, or the lack of it, on stage, and in film and television.

Many of those taking part in this seminar series have come from the cultural sector; Liz Aggiss during the Doctorate Conferment these have included visual artist: Nils Ramhøj, Lina Ekdahl (poet), Paula af Malmborg Ceremony in 2013. Photo: Johan Wingborg Ward (composer), Aga Hasttyar, ‘Fryshuset’ (Centres for Cultural, Recreational and The British performance artist, choregrapher Social Activities), Simon Norrthon, Head of Department at the Stockholm Academy and filmmaker Professor Liz Aggiss has played an important part in the development of Cont- of Dramatic Arts, Birthe Niederhaus, Artistic Director for Die Bühne, Sunil Munshi emporary Performative Arts’ programme at the and Alexander Salzberger, actors from the Royal Dramatic Theatre, Stockholm, Ellen Academy. In 2013 she was awarded an honorary Nyman, TRYCK (non-profit organisation for coloured cultural workers in Sweden), Ma- doctorate at the Faculty and was conferred this doctorate at a ceremony on the 25th of October. ria Wärme, actress from Teater De Vill, Stockholm, Gorki Glaser-Müller, Baker Karim and Gabriela Pichler, all filmmakers, and Mette Friberg, programme director for the Monica Danielson, singer and teacher at the television programme: Drama Samhälle (Drama Society) that is produced by ‘SvT’, the Academy was awarded the Carin Malmlöf-Forss- ling Prize by the Royal Swedish Academy of Mu- Swedish Public Service Television Company. sic and Kjell Ingebretsen, Artistic Director of the master’s programme in Symphonic Orchestra The acting programme at the Academy is pleased with how these seminars have had Performance was awarded the Medal for the Advancement of the Art of Music. an influence on the content of the programme. The themes that were focused on in these seminars have been embraced in teaching and among students. This seminar Johannes Landgren, organist and teacher at the series will continue during 2014 under the name: Performing Arts Forum. Academy, was awarded one of the Church of Sweden’s annual prizes for his musical deeds.

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