The group researches how art establishes and develops social relations and creative fellowship in arenas and with participants who find themselves both within, and at the margins of, the established arts and cultural world. The group brings together artists, researchers, teachers and actors from other fields than the arts, but who think in interdisciplinary terms about the development of relational theory and practice – fields such as, for example, sociology, education, philosophy and urban studies. The research group “Art and Social relations” wishes to develop practices for both academic and artistic research.
- How can artists and researchers create arenas which shed light on question art’s relational elements?
- How can art’s relational character contribute to new practices within the arts institutions (outreach)?
- How can art create relations to and between different parties outside or in the marginal zones of the established arts, in schools, nurseries, local communities and in more loosely-based and short-term groupings?
- How can art and art education be of significance in establishing relation-based arenas of learning?
- How can research and arts practices promote sustainability and social justice?
- How can different groups in society and schools enter into and influence performing and creative artistic practices?
- How can art’s social and creative character develop new approaches to questions of health?
- How can relationally-anchored artistic practices contribute to new ways of understanding “the production of subjectivity”?
Events
Art & social relations – The home. Workshop at the conference “Arts in Context – In Between Practices: aiming to highlight the home as a site for artistic research”. Kristiansand, June 2016. Åsil Bøthun, Lene Dalgård, Tony Valberg.
Projects
Current:
Valberg, Tony: “Togetherness – Vibrant Matter Collective” investigates new ways to “inhabit the world”. Relational and non-anthropocentric access to co-creation. (In development).
Completed:
Valberg, Tony; Erichsen, Agnete (2015): “Gatherings". Kristiansand Kunsthall, 2015.
Valberg, Tony; Erichsen, Agnete; Illeris, Helene; Holthe, Marita S. (2014): “Being with - contemporary art’s access to relation, participation and togetherness”. 2014. www.isammen.no
Publications
2023- : KOMET, projekterne stedSANS, onto-sympati, intra-play og transformasjoner, https://komet.uia.no/portal-til-komet-prosjektene/
2018: Amundsen, Even Lynne; Anundsen, Tormod Wallem; Hansen, Linda Iren Mihaila; Dalgård, Lene; Fossnes,Anne-May; Illeris, Helene; Kvist, Per; Näumann, Ragnhild; Skregelid, Lisbet; Svingen-Austestad, Anna; Valberg, Tony; Øgård-Repål, Anita; (2018). BEBO. UiA - egen udgivelse. Kristiansand og Fevik 2018
Illeris, Helene (2016): “Adult Education in Art Galleries: Inhabiting Social Criticism and Change through Transformative Artistic Practices”. In Darlene E. Clover, Kathy Sanford, Kay Johnson and Lorraine Bell (Eds.): Adult Education, Museums and Art Galleries. Animating Social, Cultural and Institutional Change. Rotterdam: Sense Publishers (Chapter)
Illeris, Helene (Ed. with Göthlund, A. and Thrane, K.) (2015): EDGE: 20 essays in contemporary art education. Copenhagen: Multivers Academic (Anthology)
Valberg, Tony (2014): “Hundre år med symfonisk outreach” [A hundred years of symphonic outreach] Nordic Research in Music Education Yearbook, nr. 15, 2014. (Article)
Research fellows
Helene Waage
Laura Toxværd
Deise Faria Nunes
Heidi Kukkonen
Siri Merete Skar
Helen Eriksen
Samira Jamouchi