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Waltz after Werkmästers Hans Olsson with dancer Dlsher Jabo and Bullermyren Band
- 2018
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Konstnärligt arbete (film/video)abstract
- This multimodal and interdisciplinary artistic research project fuses Kurdish-Swedish dancer Dlsher Jabo’s embodied interpretation of a traditional Swedish folk tune with experimental documentary and music video filmmaking practices.Filmed in the historic village of Bingsjö in Dalarna Province, Sweden, the project re-imagines the contemporary refugee experience by engaging in several layers of audiovisual and intercultural collaboration.Prior to production, the traditional song Waltz after Werkmästers Hans Olsson was recorded and re-arranged by Swedish-Kurdish folk band Bullermyren. Audio interviews were conducted with dancer Dlsher Jabo, in which he shared stories of his life as krump/street dancer in Syria and his subsequent displacement as a refugee. During principal photography, a Swedish folk dance troupe, led by choreographer Jenny Franke, was invited to perform alongside Mr Jabo and Bullermyren, resulting in a unique juxtaposition of traditional and contemporary dance styles.Due to the extreme physical nature of Mr Jabo’s performance and the limited availability of the filming location, the shoot was conducted in a highly improvised manner in a barn dance hall. Consequently, the film’s narrative structure and visual rhythm needed to be composed through judicious and precise film editing practice.This film project was presented at the 2018 MIRAC Conference at Sweden’s Royal College of Music and disseminated at a 2018 audiovisual research seminar at Dalarna University before being made widely available on YouTube.The research was conducted as part of Dalarna University’s research initiative DAVA intercultural sessions and produced in collaboration with Faraway Productions Pty Ltd (Australia), Bingsjöstämman and Folkmusikens Hus.
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Transcultural Identity Constructions in a Changing World
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (refereegranskat)abstract
- This volume takes a broad outlook on the concept of transculturality. Contributions from 19 authors and specialists, of almost as many diverse origins, grapple with this concept, each in their own way. How can transculturality be described? How can it help us understand our world? Many of the chapters deal with literary texts, others with the stories told in movies, drama, and visual art. There are texts about the complexity of the European Burqa-Ban debate, the negative aspects of Portuguese multiculturalism, or the border-crossing experiences of Filipino immigrants in Ireland. Several chapters examine stereotypes, the idea of movement, the dissolution of cultural borders, or the nature of bilingual writing. It is a unique contribution to the field, on a virtually global scale.
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- Sandahl, Ann-Louise, 1962-
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Temporalitet i visuell kultur : Om samtidens heterokrona estetiker
- 2016
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In contemporary society temporalities in different scales coexist, cooperate and collide. Clock time serves as a main reference for time, although a lot of processes have nothing to do with clock time and can’t be measured by its scales. One of the dissertation’s points of departure is that temporal narratives is a key factor for affecting how people act and think, and therefore there is a need for visualizations, conceptual figurations and cognitive objects for complex forms of time. The dissertation evolves around art works, visualizations and theories that deal with today’s multiple temporal forms and narratives. One of the questions the dissertation sets out to answer concerns how temporality is visualized in contemporary art and visualizations. It also aims to demonstrate the relevance of visual studies in the new field of environmental humanities. A number of temporal concepts are explored in relation to art works. One such concept is heterochrony, a term referring to a multifaceted temporality, that art theorist Nicolas Bourriaud claims is common in contemporary art. Another is timescapes, a term for an entangled temporality, described by sociologist Barbara Adam, and chronoscopy coined by philosopher Paul Virilio, referring to an extremely short-termed perspective. Space of flows and space of places are concepts formulated by sociologist Manuel Castells, denoting the spatiotemporal logics that have emerged in the network society, where citizens simultaneousley can exist in physical and virtual spacetimes. Also two concepts for a vast time span are discussed: anthropocene, a suggested new geological era, and the long now, a perspective formulated by the artist and musician Brian Eno. One conclusion is that complex and sensous understandings of temporality can be accomplished through art works and visualizations. Artistic expressions have the potential to inspire, worry and affect viewers and produce narratives of the multiple temporalities embedded in climate changes. Multiple forms of temporality can be found in the discussed works, and the narratives that emerge are entangled and heterogenous and speak of heterochrony, chronoscopy, and anthropocene, that is, of temporal forms that cannot easily be related to a human lifetime or to everyday understandings of time.
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- Häggström, Margaretha, 1962
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This is me! Visual Art as a Means to Identify Self and the “Bigger Picture”
- 2022
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Ingår i: Learning through Art #3 INTERNATIONAL PICTURES OF PRACTICE. - Quinta da Cruz : Insea Publications. - 9789895360024 ; , s. 370-377
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This essay shows art-works of young students diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome. Through a six-week long theme, the students worked with self-portraits, through three phases. First, they made a sketch without any special instructions. Second, they used a grid-method. Third, they created personal, innovative, and original images. The grid method was a way to meet the AS students’ needs for clear instructions. The third phase was quite challenging for the student. However, when they overcame the obstacles, they made creative and personal portraits. It was crucial for the students to start in the known before entering the unknown.
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- Häggström, Margaretha, 1962
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Visual Genealogy of Portraits, Self-Portraits, and Selfies: Same Phenomenon, Different Phase of History
- 2020
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Ingår i: In Danilo M. Baylen (Ed.), Dreams and Inspirations: The book of Selected Readings 2018. - Georgia : International Visual Literacy Association. ; , s. 66-85
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This book chapter explores how the use of portraits has developed over the years. The purpose is to examine the genealogy of three types of portraits --- portraits, self-portraits, and selfies --- and to reveal similarities and diversity between these. A sample of portraits and self-portraits by painters, and selfies by amateur photographers, are analyzed through the four resources model by Freebody and Luke (1999). In this study, this model contains four theoretical concepts: visual code-breaking, visual meaning-making, visual use and visual analysis. The result shows that both professional artists, such as painters and photographers, and amateur photographers, are visual literate, but on different levels. Visual literacy ability is needed in all these types of portraits, and is always culturally grounded. The images included in this study, show the creators’ awareness of how to express specific personalities. Although, there are differences between the older paintings and today’s selfies, the similarities are more connected than might be thought.
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Bingsjö360 – Experience Sweden's Bingsjö Folk Music Festival in 360 degrees
- 2019
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Konstnärligt arbete (film/video)abstract
- Every first Wednesday in July since 1969, Bingsjöstämman (Bingsjö Folk Music Festival) beckons leading folk musicians and folk music enthusiasts from all over Scandinavia to the picturesque village of Bingsjö in Sweden. Over the course of 24 hours, thousands of people gather in fields, barns, campgrounds and historic houses to enjoy scheduled concerts, impromptu musical performances and to participate in traditional dances.Captured at Bingsjöstämman in 2018, Bingsjö360 presents 18 separate video clips which combine 8K resolution VR360 video and ambisonic music recordings to represent the broad range of musical performances on display at the festival. Through this immersive music documentary experience, viewers around the world can experience the sounds, rhythms and unique visual beauty of the festival for themselves.Bingsjö360 presents new creative pathways for representing and sharing folk music tradition through cutting-edge artistic research, immersive audiovisual technology and new modes of audience interaction. By making Bingsjö360 easily accessible through an online video sharing platform, this project also aims to elevate knowledge and perception about immersive audiovisual experiences in wider society.This international artistic research project was instigated at Dalarna Audiovisual Academy at Dalarna University (Falun, Sweden) and produced in collaboration with Folkmusikens Hus, Faraway Productions (Australia), Honeypot Film Productions, Cutting Edge (Australia), Dalarnas Museum, Film i Dalarna and Benny Andersson’s record label Mono Music.
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