Andreas Røst
Field of study: Theatre
PhD Research Fellow
In the following PhD project, I will research collective memory processes by developing a concept for and producing a performance and installation in collaboration with "Arkivet" – the peace and human rights centre in Kristiansand.
The project will make a contribution to the field of theatre in context. The project is combined artistically-scientifically, and the work will involve theatre in the borderland between performance and exhibition, and investigate strategies within the site-specific, documentary and immersive. The artistic work will address collective memory processes after World War II and the Terrorist attack of July 22, 2011, and the need for an agonistic mode of memory in a societal situation of increasing antagonism.
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Anne Elmies-Vestergran
PhD Research Fellow, PhD candidate in visual sciences at the Faculty of Fine Arts.
With a background in contemporary art, I investigate in my PhD project how primary school students can be playful, creative and experimental in working with digital media in arts and crafts. I want to study what happens when students become producers rather than consumers, and digital becomes an artistic material and medium.
Anette Therese Pettersen
Ph.D Research Fellow
Critical Distance or Euphoric Embrace Research Project: An Examination of Young People's Experience of Performing Arts in "Den kulturelle skolesekken "(DKS), through affective and performative criticism (working title) is based on her practice and background as a performing arts critic. Through workshops of criticism, the project will investigate how performative and affective tracks from a performance experience can be expressed.
Deise Faria Nunes
Field of study: Theatre and performance
Stipendiat / PhD Research Fellow
Project title: Estuaries – Decolonial, Feminist, Afro-diaspora Perspectives on North European Performance.
The project has a practical-theoretical approach and aims to develop multi-media work discussing paradigms for decolonial and feminist performance. Departing from archive and auto-ethnography, through the dialogue with praxes and discourses by African-heritage women artists born, based or in relation to Northern Europe, Estuaries intends to map existing and develop new concepts for Afro-diaspora performance.
Egil Ovesen
Visual arts
Public Ph.D candidate
The purpose of the PhD project is to use empirical aesthetics for the analysis of art experiences that pupils in lower secondary school can gain through computer games and interactive mediums. The research will be based on commercially available computer games with art narrative ambitions and art production for interactive mediums such as "Den kulturelle skolesekken" in Møre and Romsdal.
Else-Brit Kroneberg
New transnational stories about Nordic photographic modernism
Public Ph.D. candidate
Else-Brit Kroneberg
This project will, based on the unique collection of photographs in Nicolai Tangen's art collection, investigate the possibilities of establishing new, transnational perspectives on Nordic photomodernism. These are perspectives that have so far been absent in Nordic photo-history writing, which have largely been characterized by methodological nationalism. In addition, the project's emphasis on photography as a medium will help to challenge a "canonized" art historical narrative about modernism, by presenting Nordic modernism as a multimedia phenomenon.
Frank Falch
Public ph.d. kandidat
Visual Arts
Title: Displaying Art History? A Study of Narratives in Art Museums’ Collection Displays
A museum presents its collection in a collection display, alongside with temporary exhibitions. The purpose of this Ph.D. project is to study how contemporary collection displays convey art history, with categories such as gender, diversity, including queer as point of departure. These are approaches which have gained importance in art history as an academic discipline in recent years, in contrast to a more conventional and ‘art internal’ narratives based on form and chronology.
Gunvor Bøylestad Nilsen
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Helene Waage
Tone and attunement: Co-singing in families living with dementia
Stipendiat / Ph.d.-programmet Kunst i kontekst (musikk)
This PhD-project explores how persons with dementia and their relatives can use co-singing as an integrated part of communication and interaction in their daily life. The concept of co-singing offers a supplemental approach to (indirect) music therapy and music therapeutic caregiving and caregiver-singing developed within institutional dementia care. Co-singing highlights singing as a relational activity – a form of togetherness – and draws on the persons’ own experiences with singing throughout their lives. The project is inspired by posthuman and new-materialist theory and philosophy, and theories connected to neuropsychology and neuroscience.
Inga Marie Nesmann-Aas
Public PhD Research Fellow
Topics: classical singing, voice methodology, music education, performance practice, historical music, post-historically informed performance; post-HIP, embodiment
The case study of this phd-project is Henry Purcell’s opera Dido and Aeneas, from the 1680s, and its main title is Reconfiguring Dido. Through musical, literary, and rhetorical analysis of the material and further on, working with interpretation and performance practice, it is possible to develop a more encompassing understanding and approach to the material, both as a researcher and performer, and thus contribute to the experience of the material and performance. The project explores ways of meaning making and artistic experiences of historical material which can communicate in our present time.
In addition to the foundation of facts and background knowledge, a bodily and artistic approach with an ethical responsibility for authenticity, in the sense of being truthful towards oneself in the artistic creation, is emphasized. The material is reinterpreted and reconfigured in a new creative process which can result in meaningful artistic experiences. Through embodiment, as it is defined with Lakoff & Johnson, both performer and audience have a bodily and sense-based experience in an ethical relationship with fellow humans, environment, and our planet as a whole.
Joachim Aagaard Friis
PhD Research Fellow
I work as a research fellow at the University of Agder, at the Department of Visual Arts and Drama. For my PhD project I explore my own practice as an art curator. I specifically research how the art curator can work, pedagogically, ethically and aesthetically, with themes related to ecology and the concept of the Anthropocene. I will curate an exhibition for Agder Kunstsenter and Kunstpunkt Lista in 2022 as part of the project.
Julie Kirkeng
PhD Research Fellow
Visual Art in Context / Socially Engaged Art and Grief
The project investigates how a socially engaged art practice can help with the processing of a personal and/or collective grief. The project is interdisciplinary and relates to both art og health with a focus on metal health.
The dissertation has an artistic-scientific format that combines art practice with theory. As part of the research project, a participatory art project in public space will be carried out. The public is here invited to participate by working artistically and textually with their own grief experiences.
Karl Olav Segrov Mortensen
Field of study: Visual Art in Context
PhD Research Fellow
I am researching one of modern Norwegian art history's most debated and iconic art projects, Marianne Heske's «Project Gjerdeløa». It all started with Heske being invited as one of three artists to represent Norway at the 11th Paris Biennale in 1980. As part of her contribution, she moved an approx. 350-year-old outcrop from the mountainside in Tafjord on Sunnmøre to the Pompidou Center in Paris.Since then, the project has gone through several phases, received good press coverage and been discussed, written about and canonized for 40 years.
My research project examines both the project itself and what has been written about it with different theoretical and methodological approaches. My hypothesis is that a complex art project such as "Project Gjerdeløa" can be the starting point for a number of approaches that can question and challenge traditional ways of thinking about art and art history writing.
Laura Navndrup Black
The Child is Present - children and young people as choreographers and choreographic material.
Eksternt finansiert Ph.D
This practice-driven inquiry proposes a series of practical collaborations between adults, children and young people, and attempts to uncover some of the artistic and pedagogic problems, potentials and resistances thought to arise from such constellations. The child is approached as choreographer and as choreographic material; as a capable performance maker as well as a particular presence on stage. The work seeks to expand the idea of access in participatory and co-creative situations and looks for alternatives to referential movement language and (self)expression as key characteristics in the choreographic process.
Linda Cecilie Halvorsen
Public Ph.D candidate
Through this project, I explore the possibilities of using movement-based learning in music literacy. Being able to read, write, understand and communicate musical notation is called music literacy. The project aims to investigate whether movement-based learning in music literacy might increase the quality of the learning and whether movement-based learning might change the way teachers experience the learning process in general. The project also aims at developing movement-based methods and resources for teaching music literacy.
Lissi Wiingaard Thrane
More information will follow.
Merete Lundetræ Andersen
“Performing memories: Norwegian theatre performances about the Second World War”
Field of study: Cultural memory studies and theatre science
In my PhD project, I am researching contemporary Norwegian theatre performances and other performing arts, produced between 2000 and 2024, that thematizes the Second World War in Norway. It is an inductive project, and the starting point has been mapping this field. I aim to find out what characterizes this group of performances and what stories they tell, and to discuss them in relation to their contemporary time.
My project is a part of the research project Making Memories, an interdisciplinary, cross-institutional, international project at the initiative of the University of Agder.
Mali Hauen
Public Ph.D candidate
All municipalities have a "kullturskole", but they are different in design and are organized very differently from municipality to municipality. It is called a"kulturskole" and should consequently be closely linked to primary school. The interaction between kulturskole and primary school is often differently organized and differently anchored in the municipality's planning.
By looking at different organizational models for "kulturskole" collaboration and further interviewing students who have instrumental training associated with these models, I want to find out if the different models provide different learning outcomes in a school context, both in terms of the instrumental training itself, but also with regard to the rest of the school day.
The main problem in the study will be: What significance do different organizational forms/models for interaction cultural school / primary school have for the instrumental education in "kulturskolen"?
The purpose of the study is to produce new knowledge that can provide a basis for choosing a collaboration model for the individual municipality.
Remi André Slotterøy
More information will follow.
Siri Merethe Skar
PhD Research Fellow
The working title of the project is "Moment of participation -an examination of the cross-field between participant, psychodrama & psychodrama".
There will be a particular focus on the experience dimension and meaning-creating processes of the participant, as well as dramaturgical strategies in the co-creation of a psychodrama. A combination of qualitative and art-based research methodology will be used in the project.
Completed doctoral degrees
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