Stockholm University of the Arts (SKH)

About this portal
Stockholm University of the Arts (SKH) was established in 2014 and have about 500 students and 250 employees. With our unique composition of education and artistic research, we want to create new opportunities for societal development and knowledge of tomorrow.
On 1 June 2016 SKH was authorised to award artistic third-cycle degrees in artistic practices. Exposition is an integrated part of artistic work at SKH. Each research project must present (stage, narrate, sing, choreograph and so on) its results in a way that is both rigorous and consistent. This requires research to be critically reviewed by peers in a combination of different exposition formats. By developing different formats in which peer review can be carried out, research within the area also addresses the challenges that arise when research is formulated and presented in forms that communicate through an artistically performed experience and thereby contribute to pushing the boundaries that existing forms of publication and dissemination of research set for the ambitions of artistic research.
Stockholm University of the Arts enables its researchers, PhD Candidates and staff to present their projects and findings on SKH’s RC portal in order to publish, archive, and internationally connect their artistic research.
SKH organizes private lessons and workshops aimed at our students, researchers, and employees. For bookings, please contact: heidi.paateremoller@uniarts.se.
contact person(s):
Heidi Möller 
url:
https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/2225914/2551399
Recent Issues
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0. X-position
Stockholm University of the Arts publication series: X-Position, ISSN 2002-603X;3
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0. Published expositions
Published expositions by Stockholm University of the Arts.
Recent Activities
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Practicing art - as a habit? / Att utöva konst - som en vana?
(2017)
author(s): Annette Arlander
connected to: Stockholm University of the Arts (SKH)
published in: RUUKKU - Studies in Artistic Research
This bilingual exposition (English and Swedish) presents and problematizes the relationship between artistic practice and habit, describing two projects that deal with repetition and place. The projects 'Solsidan' and 'Summer at Söder' were undertaken during the years 2015-2016 in Stockholm. The idea of repetition and returning to the same site were crucial, as in much of my previous works. Unlike them, neither of these two projects involved performances for camera; in both the actual practice consisted of video recording the view. The shift in emphasis from an artistic practice aiming to produce an artwork, into an activity undertaken mainly as an exercise, an activity, could be seen as a strand in the general trend in contemporary art since the 1960s and accentuated in this century towards valuing the 'working' of art above the work of art as an object. This trend can also be related to research and linked to the preference for various terms like practice as research, performance as research, creative arts research or, indeed, artistic research. - This exposition combines a description of the actual practice, with an encounter with the material generated through that practice and proposes that these works can exemplify artistic research as a speculative practice.
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Working With a Witches’ Broom / Att Arbeta med en Markvast
(2015)
author(s): Annette Arlander
connected to: Stockholm University of the Arts (SKH)
published in: RUUKKU - Studies in Artistic Research
This exposition explores the specific materiality that a Witches’ Broom offers for performance-based artworks, referring to ideas on plant-thinking by Michael Marder (2013) and on vibrant matter by Jane Bennett (2010). A witches’ broom, Taphrina betulina, is a fungus that afflicts certain birch trees and causes outgrowths of small twigs. With such a bunch of sticks I performed for camera and live on several occasions during the years 2006-2008 creating variations with only a few elements. Working with various materials – organic matter, digital moving images and recorded speech – and the various combinations of them, including the versions discarded during the process, provides a starting point for looking at the small transformations that produce difference and for proposing variation as one of the basic methods for artistic research.
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Elsa - New Reactive Earth
(last edited: 2024)
author(s): Lina Persson
connected to: Stockholm University of the Arts (SKH)
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
This is a snapshot of the Storyworld
New Reactive Earth, from March
2024. This worldbuilding began
in 2011 when a collaboration with
Prof. Ronald Mallett evoked in me
how his time travel theory could
enable future generations to
confront how the present depletes
the Earth. This made the conflict
tangible and resistance possible,
prompting me to continue
developing this concept through
methods of CO2 limitations and
collective sharing in collaborations
and interventions.
Experimentation with limiting
bodily access to energy and
resources helped embody the
storyworld's speculative premises.
Slowing down breath, heart rate,
and metabolism achieved an
altered state that attuned me
further to the relations and how
I am entangled in my environment.
Through iterative interplay, this
speculative 'introverse' and my
everyday environments have
shaped each other.
With the included prompt cards
I invite you to join this shaping, to
extend this interplay to your own
environment. This Storyworld is
neither a utopia nor a dystopia but
a transtopia—a place to go through
in order to get beyond current
realities, get a glimpse of what else
could be.
Follow the developments of NRE at
researchcatalogue.net/view/266314
/266339
NEW REACTIVE EARTH MATERIALS:
STORYWORLD BIBLE
STORYWORLD MAP
STORYWORLD PROMPT CARDS
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Animated Ecology
(last edited: 2023)
author(s): Lina Persson
connected to: Stockholm University of the Arts (SKH)
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
In these works I have explored how I can relate to my environment through my daily practices of teaching, eating, animating etc. I begun the project by improvising lectures for various audiences I wanted to have input from. I have lectured to all possible enteties in the ecosystem I am a part of, from blueberries to colleagues to films. Every time something new continues to take shape. The exposition include essays, paintings and animations.
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ArtNews
(last edited: 2021)
author(s): My Häggbom
connected to: Stockholm University of the Arts (SKH)
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
Konst möter journalistik.
ArtNews re-gestaltar nyhetsberättelser i konstnärlig form i samarbete med olika konstnärer. Vi undersöker vad som uppstår i mellanrummet och mötet mellan konst och journalistiken.
Konstnärligt forskningsprojekt inom Stockholm University of the Arts
Art meets journalism. ArtNews re-designs news stories in artistic form in collaboration with various artists. We investigate the space between art and journalism. Artistic research project at Stockholm University of the Arts
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Ju mer dom spottar på mig desto snabbare kommer jag blomma (UNDER CONSTRUCTION)
(last edited: 2021)
author(s): Tinna Joné
connected to: Stockholm University of the Arts (SKH)
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
WORK IN PROGRESS
The project aims to develop participation-based and non-linear forms of documentary storytelling in relation to specific sites: Southern and Northern Botkyrka .
The research that will be conducted over three years will include field work, discursive studies of film and theory, process-based practical work, experiments, exhibitions, workshops and seminars.
The exposition is part of SCREENING, Stockholm University of the Arts’ Film and Media platform for ongoing artistic research.