A unique research environment

Research in Drama, Fine Art, Photography, Music, Crafts, Arts Education and Film takes on different forms, and each discipline has its own unique background.  However, what is common to all is the importance attached to developing a research domain for the arts, where the point of departure and the constant point of reference are creative processes. R&D work at the Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts spans across a wide range of disciplines and genres and is rich in artistic expression, thus providing unique conditions for cross-artistic and multi-disciplinary work of this kind.

An inquiring attitude has always been a capacity associated with creative processes. When universities give time and space to these processes, new spaces for reflection come into being. This is not only beneficial to artistic practice but also to traditional academic knowledge, which also gains new insights into artistic processes and artistic ways of thinking.

The Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts is thus a meeting place for many different kinds of research – with a strong focus on artistic R&D work.

Research projects
– cross-wise and depth-wise

Several more extensive research projects are pursued at our faculty. A number of these are distinctly cross-disciplinary in character and involve several of the Faculty’s as well as the University’s institutions.

In the research project Intervention – Art in Urban Life and Urban Development, designers, visual artists, philosophers, economists, photographers and urban sociologists work together. The project Passion for the Real deals with the problems artistic practice encounter in the context of globalisation and medialisation, and addresses such problems as medialised representations of “the real”. In this project, researchers and artists from the fields of design, opera, fine art and film meet in four sub-projects.

Among the projects which take a different course, that is, towards an explicitly disciplinary in-depth study is Ole Lützow-Holm’s project Towards an Expanded Field of Art Music (The Academy of Music and Drama), Johannes Landgren’s Research through Interpretation (The Academy of Music and Drama) and Kalle Boman’s and Göran du Rées’ An eye on Kopparmärra (The School of Film Directing). For more detailed information on these projects and other projects log on to each respective school’s web site.

Our faculty has a significant tradition of research which specialises in the history of music and the reconstruction of both performance praxis and musical instruments. This research is pursued at GOArt (the Göteborg Organ Art Center), which is a part of the Academy of Music and Drama and is one of the Centres of Expertise and Research at the University of Gothenburg.

In order to obtain a good general view of the research pursued at our faculty, log on to the University of Gothenburg’s Publication Database (GUP).

The Board for Artistic Research
and Development

The role of this board is to encourage a cross-faculty dialogue on artistic and cross-disciplinary issues and quality in relation to research and development at our faculty. New collaborative research ideas are also generated here. Together with the Research School, this board stands behind the Faculty Seminar Series on Artistic Research. The Board for Artistic Research and Development also acts as the editorial board for ArtMonitor – a publication series and a unique journal dedicated to artistic research. This board also organises ‘Art Lab’ at Atalante, Gothenburg, which is an open, extra mural stage for artistic and experimental development work in the centre of Gothenburg. Every year, the Board for Artistic Research and Development awards funding for artistic as well as pedagogical R&D projects.

More information about the Board for Artistic Research and Development

Collaboration

To pursue artistic work and artistic research is to work in the midst of a society - in the public domain. One of our faculty’s most important tasks is to open up ways for artistic research to gain access to the public arena and thus become a genuine part of our society’s cultural scene and cultural policy. Many of the research projects undertaken at our faculty are carried out in collaboration with cultural institutions, municipal and state authorities and private companies. 

Our faculty collaborates with several other departments at the University within the framework of the Cultural Heritage Seminar, which is both a multi-disciplinary research network and part of the Centre of Expertise and Research for Culture and Health at the University of Gothenburg. We also collaborate with the Gothenburg district of Backa around questions of art and health, and take an active part in activities at the Centre of Expertise and Research for Urban Studies in the Gothenburg district of Hammarkullen. GOArt (the Gothenburg Organ Art Center) has been working in close collaboration with the Department of Technical Acoustics at the Chalmers University of Technology for a number of years now and has a wide network of local, regional and international collaborative partnerships.

Newsletter on artistic research

You can obtain information and the latest news on artistic research at the University of Gothenburg via the electronic newsletter ArtisticResearch. This newsletter will be sent to your email address approximately 4 times a year.

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