Afleveringen
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In this podcast graduate students from the MFA program in Fine Arts at HDK-Valand University of Gothenburg speak with artist, writer, and researcher Anna Nygren. The discussion delves into a range of exciting and current topics, including neuroqueerness, the materiality of language, and Nygren's creative practice, encompassing her project "I Hope You Become a Fish." Nygren talks openly about Zlatan, their cat with artistic interests, the literary significance of whales, and examines the potentialities and ethical dilemmas in human-nonhuman relationships providing a thought-provoking exploration of these interconnected themes.
Short bios:Anna Nygren (researcher)Anna Nygren (Sweden, 1990) works with language-based art as a writer, poet, playwright and textile artist. They are teaching literary composition at Gothenburg University and are doing their PhD in literature at Åbo Akademi. Nygren is part of the research project "Autistic Writing. A Mother Tongue", financed by Vetenskapsrådet. Their interests lie in the materiality of language, animals in literature and language-based art for children.
Bubbles TabooBubbles Taboo coexists with plants, animals, red wine and white wine.
Sebastian LavinSebastian Lavin is working with dissemination of care and practical work, ceramic relay work, weaving and questions of disguised work and value.
Kent GrundbergKent Grundberg is interested in mycelia, mutual aid, collectivity and queer euphoria.
Rikke BogetoftRikke Bogetoft (1995) explores queer and non-human death, mapping the performance of necropolitical strategies in western hegemonies and developing queerfeminist counter tactics of resistance
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In this podcast, we will learn more about a research project that our invited guest, Olga Sasunkevich, was involved in: Spaces of Resistance: A Study of Gender and Sexualities in Times of Transformation. Her project brought together multi-sited ethnography, digital ethnography and comparative analysis. Maxine Chionh, Julia Florentzi and Kinga Molińska with Olga Sasunkevich, Associate Professor in Gender Studies at the Department of Cultural Sciences at the University of Gothenburg explore the ways in which feminist and decolonial perspectives in gender studies intersect with their artistic research and practice.
Bios:
Olga Sasunkevich: Associate Professor in Gender Studies at the Department of Cultural Sciences at the University of Gothenburg. Olga’s research interests revolve around questions of gender, sexuality, migration and ethnicity in Eastern Europe.
Maxine Chionh: Student at the MFA Fine Art programme at HDK-Valand with an art and writing practice. Maxine’s research and practice investigate the postcolonial struggle from an East and SE Asian perspective, with an especial interest in persistent coloniality, denialism and missing publics.
Julia Florentzi: Student at the MFA Fine Art programme of HDK-Valand. Her artistic practice is oriented around feminist issues, love in patriarchy as well as feminist commons, friendship and protest. In her current studio practice she works with embroidering text and image. She is also into the making of an art book.
Kinga Molińska: Student at the MFA Fine Art, HDK-Valand, who develops feminist, spatial, multisensorially integrated artistic methods. Her artistic practice focuses on resonating bodies and bodies in transformation as a departing point to investigate body politics, alternative knowledges (erotic, tactile, sonic, somatic), empathy and collective care.
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For this podcast episode, three fine art students from the MFA Fine Art programme at HDK-Valand reached out to one PhD student in social work, to talk about lacking a language for one's lived experience, and its consequences on one's mental health. We talk about existentialism and the body, medicalisation and over-diagnosis, and the potential of finding a new language to talk about those aspects of depression that might lie beyond society’s ready-made metaphors.
Bios:Elias Tärnström is a PhD student in the department for social work at Gothenburg university. His upcoming thesis focuses on patients diagnosed with depression's experiences of lacking a language for their depression. It aims to highlight the importance of being understood from existential aspects of one's experiences of depression during treatment interactions with professionals.
Vanja Qvarfordt explores her own family's archive of photographs and homemade films to investigate how mental illness has been passed down through three generations of women, and the effects of stigma and silence culture on that inheritance.Marie Bergqvist works with how the dominant narrative surrounding transnational and transracial adoption in "colorblind Sweden" fails to recognize the complex experiences of being adopted, for instance by replacing the term race with ethnicity.
Jakob Niedziela critically examines the medicalising language surrounding ADHD, and its structural impact on ADHDers, on an individual and group level. In his current work, he is looking at the potential of tactility and body language functioning as neurodivergent mother-tongues.
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The meeting, hosted by Irma Beširević, an student at MFA Fine Art programme at HDK-Valand, focused on the intersection of technology and humanity, particularly regarding surveillance, capitalism, and data collection. Dr. Jasmina Marić, a senior lecturer in Interaction Design, shared insights on human-computer interaction and user experience. The discussion included personal anecdotes about early interactions with technology, highlighting the evolution from basic devices like the ZX Spectrum to modern digital experiences. The speakers reflected on their screen time and the pervasive influence of technology in daily life, emphasizing the need for awareness of its implications on human behavior and society.
Bios:Dr Jasmina Maric is a Senior Lecturer at the Interaction Design and Software Engineering, CSE, Chalmers University, Gothenburg, Sweden. Jasmina holds a PhD in Communication and Information Science from Tilburg University in 2014. She is interested in the topics of HCI, specifically focused on user experience, design, aesthetics, art, applied gaming and social networking for real-world problem implementation. Jasmina teaches at the Interaction Design department focusing on Designing UX, UI, Methodology, and Information Visualization.
Irma Beširević explores humanity's evolving relationship with technology and the ongoing technological revolution through new-media art and performance. Her work spans a wide range of materials and media, focusing on the raw, non-directed technological (readymade digital), the human body (and its digital twin), and transparent plastic, with themes of the meta-digital influenced by Fluxus through artistic research.
