Research Catalogue

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• 0. X-position Stockholm University of the Arts publication series: X-Position, ISSN 2002-603X;3
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  The potential of multilingualism in dramatic works (2022) author(s): Vanja Hamidi Isacson published in: Stockholm University of the Arts (SKH)
  "The potential of multilingualism in dramatic works" is an artistic research project that aims to investigate, develop and deepen the practice of writing multilingual drama for an imagined audience in Sweden. Through placing significant focus on the playwright's practice, the goal is to contribute to the artistic development of dramatic writing in Sweden and in other Swedish-speaking contexts. By using sociolinguistic theories and terms around multilingualism, both the artistic practice and the discourse surrounding it are developed and challenged. Through the application of an integrated ideology of multilingualism, language ideologies based on a monolingual norm are contradicted. In this way, the project makes room for silenced and marginalized voices and perspectives that rarely take or receive a place in Swedish performing arts contexts. Considering language, and thus multilingualism, as social practice and action is the starting point for the research. This post-structuralist approach is in line with the theories of sociologist Pierre Bourdieu and language theorist Michael Bakhtin. In this research drama is considered as both practice and as action. Central concepts are linguistic repertoires, translingualism and speech acts. Within the project, two dramatic works have been created, ASIA/ÄRENDE and UniZona & PolyZona. These constitute the artistic result of the research and can both be described as dialogical polyvocal plays. Common and central to both works is that multilingualism permeates them and constitutes their formal core. The multilingualism has consequences that affect the dramaturgical and musical structures. The creation of the works has taken place in dialogue and collaboration with multilingual actors, directors and translators in Sweden and Finland. The form of the artistic work has been conversations, workshops and periods of writing, translation and design. Through these processes and works, the issues have been successively investigated. As tools for analysis, reflection and discussion, four categories have been created: dramaturgical, political, emotional and communicative potential. With the help of these, the concrete functions of multilingualism in both dramatic works are examined with the aim of making visible the potential of multilingualism in dramatic works. The project demonstrates that multilingual dramatic writing requires different, less traditional approaches and in this way contributes to an expanded practice for the playwright. The methods used in the creation of the works have been collaborative, transcultural and dialogic, shifting between practices and acts of listening and composing. "The potential of multilingualism in dramatic works" aims to show the enormous artistic, creative, political, emotional and communicative potential that multilingualism can bring to the dramatic work and, by extension, the performing arts.
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  Lyssna till ASIA/ÄRENDE och UniZona & PolyZona (2022) author(s): Vanja Hamidi Isacson published in: Stockholm University of the Arts (SKH)
  Welcome to the exhibition "Listening to ASIA/ÄRENDE: Kaarle Vihtori Turunen and UniZona & PolyZona". This exposition is linked to the thesis "The potential of multilingualism in dramatic works", which is available both as a printed copy and digitally as a PDF. The thesis consists of eight chapters and a prologue and epilogue. Chapters three to seven contain audio files that are available to listen to in this exposition. The exposition consists of audio files and text excerpts from the two multilingual works ASIA/ÄRENDE and UniZona & PolyZona by Vanja Hamidi Isacson. The audio files and excerpts from the works relate to specific chapters of the thesis, where these examples are discussed and analysed. The thesis in its digital form can be read and downloaded in the exposition "The potential of multilingualism in dramatic works" For those who visit the exposition without reading the thesis, it is recommended to go through the pages via the chronological order of the table of contents.
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  Hair, Materiality and immanence (2022) author(s): Gunilla Pettersson Thafvelin published in: Stockholm University of the Arts (SKH)
  A research on materiality and human hair as material. Can a material on itself create narratives and if so, because of its immanent qualities? What constitutes that presumed immanence?
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  ENHEAR (2022) author(s): Carolina Jinde published in: Stockholm University of the Arts (SKH)
  ENHEAR a way of being a state of mind a field of enquiry exploring the creative and collaborative potentials of sound centric strategies in film and media-based contexts The term enhear invites an approach to research, art practice, sound studio and world that is comprehensively aural. It proposes listening as both act and role; listening as a present tense, continual and continuous co-creation of the inter-relational spaces we all share. Drawing on the specific expertise and orientation of the sound engineer in film and media-based production, the research unfolds as a series of interrelated experiments and reflections, exploring enhear via a diverse range of artistic approaches, collaborative methods and pedagogical practices. Each sub-project brings particular attention to the auditory perspective, a radically underutilised element within the visually dominated context of film and media. This project contends that consciously incorporating attentive and inclusive listening practices into the lifecycle of creative processes will make considerable artistic, ethical and practical contributions to film and media-based productions; further utilising the expertise, raising the profile and expanding the practices of the sound engineer.
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  OSAMSAS - A movie on how to develop scenography (2022) author(s): Linn Henriksson Strååt published in: Stockholm University of the Arts (SKH)
  This movie is an attempt to capture how I develop scenograpies using devising
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  choreo | graphy: artistic research project documentation (2022) author(s): Eleanor Bauer published in: Stockholm University of the Arts (SKH)
  This page contains a chronological overview of documented artistic research and expositions created within the doctoral research project "choreo | graphy," at Stockholm University of the Arts. This research project generated text publications (documented here in pdfs), live performances (documented here in videos), scores for those performances, interview podcasts, and works for video, all included herein. A summary of the project is located at the top of the page, entitled "choreo | graphy: doctoral project summary." It explains the research questions and methodology, offering context and orientation for the expositions and documents on this page. Reading this document as a guide to the Research Catalogue contents will assist in understanding each item in relation to the overall research. ABSTRACT The research project "choreo | graphy" is an inquiry into the relationship between thinking through dance and thinking through written language, taking the notion of choreography literally as dancing-writing. Respecting that different media afford different thought processes, ideas, and concepts to be reached, this practice-based artistic research project has unfolded within artistic processes and experiments to explore and develop the relationship between dancing-thinking and writing-thinking. Investigating the media-specificity of thought in dancing together (khoreia) as it relates to the media-specificity of thought in language and specifically writing (graphia), the research strives for an adequate relation between the two, one that serves both art forms and respects their differences. The separation of the word choreography into "choreo | graphy" signals the project’s intention to open space for consideration and reinvention of the poetics of choreographic practice and discourse.
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