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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 activi- ties 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 stu- dents. 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 depart- ments 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 representati- ves 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 stu- dent magazine ‘Spionen’ (The Spy). Our aim is that all students have easy access to infor- mation 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 program- mes. 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, lectu- res, 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 pro- fessionals 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 regar- ding 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 de- partment. 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 opportu- nities 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 uni- ons 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’ The Faculty’s Student Unions reflection 2013 // 7 FACULTY OF FINE, APPLIED & PERFORMING ARTS 2013 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
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