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Two schools become one: Bitte Nygren Head of new HDK
[25 Apr 2012] Two schools, with top competence in Design, Crafts and Teacher Training Programmes in Sloyd and Visual Arts are soon to merge. From 1 July the University part of Steneby in Dals Långed and today's HDK in Gothenburg will both go under the name of HDK - School of Design and Crafts. Bitte Nygren, former Director of Swedish Museum of Architecture will become Head of School and Jeff Kaller will be Deputy Head of School.
Play in Progress
[20 Mar 2012] Play is a fundamental human activity. But what if your playground is a dump? Are all materials acceptable to play with? How can light and sound give new dimensions to public spaces?
Announcement: The Faculty is recruiting Heads of Departments
[3 Dec 2011] Two departments at the Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts, University of Gothenburg, are recruiting Heads of Departments.
GOArt Researcher Joel Speerstra Awarded Scholarship
[2 Dec 2011] On Monday the 28th of November, GOArt researcher Joel Speerstra was awarded the 2011 Hilding Rosenberg Stipendium for Swedish Musicology for his research on the pedal clavichord. The stipendium was awarded at the yearly Ceremonial Meeting of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music by Crown Princess Viktoria.
Suggestive love songs
[28 Nov 2011] The love songs of the English renaissance composer Thomas Campion have long fascinated singer and composer Katarina A Karlsson. Especially the ones using a woman's perspective and narrative persona, a somewhat unusual feature for that period. While working on her thesis, Katarina A Karlsson has translated, arranged, studied and performed Campion¿s songs as well as conducting thoroughgoing scientific explorations into his era with the aid of gender and queer theory. The aim has not been to find a way of interpreting and performing the music that is authentic for that period, but rather to test the songs in the context of our own day. The title of the thesis is: Think¿st thou to seduce me then? Impersonating female personas in songs by Thomas Campion (1567-1617), which directly states the main issues. Apart from the main text, this thesis also includes an edition of the songs and a CD recorded by Katarina A Karlsson and accompanying musicians. On Friday 9 December 2011, Katarina A Karlsson will publicly defend her thesis in Musical Performance and Interpretation at the Academy of Music and Drama (HSM), University of Gothenburg. The public defence will commence with a performance of some of Campion¿s songs to the accompaniment of an instrument previously untried in this genre: piano accordion. The accordionist is Harald Svensson.
Dissertation in musical performance and interpretation
[16 Nov 2011] The sounds produced by a fiddle are not always musical, but the fiddle is still nevertheless regarded as a musical instrument. However, if one uses sticks or car engines to create music ¿ do they become musical instruments? This is the point of departure for Per Anders Nilsson¿s research. It has led him to the creation of a number of digital instruments for various purposes and also into questions concerning the interaction between his roles as designer and musician - always on the basis of his own experiences for more than 40 years as an improvisatory musician. On 25 November 2011 he will be publicly defending his doctoral thesis A Field of Possibilities: designing and playing digital musical instruments in the subject musical performance at the Academy of Music and Drama at the University of Gothenburg.
"The Living Archive" - a seminar on artistic practices and research
[21 Oct 2011] ¿The Living Archive¿ is a seminar at the intersection of artistic practices and artistic research that focuses on the intervention of art in the archive and in the (Gothenburg) urban space. At the seminar artists, artistic researchers, art historians and the general public will discuss methods, practices, histories and possible ways to write this history during two days of presentations, screenings, lectures and conversations. Welcome to a two-day seminar entitled The Living Archive, October 26-27th!
New organisation at the Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts, the University of Gothenburg
[20 Oct 2011] The Valand School of Fine Arts, the School of Film Directing, the School of Photography and the Department of Literary Composition, Poetry and Prose to form a new department.
The area of strength Cultural Heritage announces research initiation grants
[16 Jun 2011] With the objective of strengthening the participation of artistic fields in the area of strength Cultural Heritage at the University of Gothenburg, the area of strength Cultural Heritage hereby announces research initiation grants which are especially aimed at researchers and artists at the Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts.
Leslie Johnson, Head of the Valand School of Fine Arts, leaves her position
[30 May 2011] After eight years as Head of the Valand School of Fine Arts Leslie Johnson leaves her position.