News from CROCUS
Upcoming events:
We have several interesting activities during the spring up until summer, see below for more information. Stay tuned here for the autumn program!
We wish you a nice summer!
'Bling & Other Breaches in Design'
Members of the Crocus network are welcome to network member Despina Christoforidou's public defence
Organizer: The Division of Industrial Design, Department of Design, Sciences Faculty of Engineering, LTH, Lunds University
Public defence for the academic thesis 'Bling & Other Breaches in Design' by Despina Christoforidou
Research subject: Industrial Design
Opponent appointed by the Faculty is Professor Toni-Matti Karjalainen, Finland.
When: The public defence of the doctoral thesis will take place on Thursday June 15th, 2023 at 01:15 p.m.
Where: Lecture Hall Stora hörsalen IKDC, Sölvegatan 26, Faculty of Engineering LTH, Lund.
The dissertation will be live streamed, but part of the premises is to be excluded from the live stream.
Zoom: https://lu-se.zoom.us/j/67325298485
The public defence will be held in English.
For more information about the presentations see the following link below:
In my thesis work, I have focused on questions such as: How can norm breaches and breachers be used to illuminate blindspots in the design field?
One of the conclusions is that design and designers can be understood in terms of 'in-betweenness/mellanförskap', i.e., neither inside nor outside and at the same time both, thereby providing opportunities to combine and expand different fields. To achieve that, it requires a willingness and ability to handle and manage the friction involved.'
- Despina Christoforidou
Performance 'Community Walk' with Charlotte Østergaard
Network member Charlotte Østergaard are part of Prague Quadrennial (PQ23) program with the participatory performative co-costumed walking-experience Community Walk.
Community Walk is an immersive co-costumed performance experience that invites the audience to participate and encounter costume in a non-traditional way. As a participant, wearing a 'costume for two' (worn over your own clothes), you will be invited on an exploratory and playful “walking journey” through the area of Pražská Tržnice in Prague in a community of other co-costumed pairs (people you may or may not know). In Community Walk the costume acts as a vehicle to create creative and joyful spaces for embodied conversations and entanglements between the wearers.
Charlotte Østergaard is a Danish Visual Artist and PhD student, Malmö Theatre Academy, Lund University, working in costume, textile and performance art. She has designed costumes for more than 65 performances, her artwork has been exhibited internationally and her costume-driven performances have been shown at several festivals.
During Community Walk and as participant, you will wear a costume (on top of your clothing) that connect you to another participant and as a co-costumed pair you are invited to explore and test the possibilities of the costume. Each Community Walk has a maximum 20 participants.
Performance or walking dates in Prague during PQ23, duration 1,5 hours (outdoor):
- Sunday June 11, 2023, at 11:00 & 15:00
- Tuesday June 13, 2023, at 13:00 & 16:00
- Thursday June 15, 2023, at 16:00
Register: Everyone that attend PQ23 are invited to join as participants – no skills needed apart from the ability to walk. Participants are encouraged to register to participate in the performance by mail studio [at] charlotteostergaard [dot] dk until the one-day before the day/time that you want to participate. The spot will be confirmed by mail at the latest in the morning of the day that your will participate.
Location: Holešovice Market (the PQ23 venue) in the café located at Hall 11, Prague
Community Walk are supported by The Danish Art Foundation and PQ2023.
Read more about Community Walk here
Prior events from 2023:
THEME SOUND: On Orality, Writing and Compositional Practices in Relation to Text
Welcome on April 13-14, to a two-day seminar on orality, writing and compositional practices in relation to text that CROCUS co-organizes with the research initiative SNT (Sound, Narrative, Technology). The seminar explores how understanding from an artistic practice could inform method development in the arts and artistic research, as well as in other research fields. What learning outcomes are there from working with music and text? What are the different strategies in writing for musical composition?
Sound, Narrative, Technology, SNT is a network researching audio performance, dramatic writing, musical composition and hörspiel. Researchers, artists and experts within these disciplines meet to develop and deepen the fields that emerge at the intersection, and where the questions and problems take their starting point in narrative, artistic methods and content.
When: 13-14 April, 2023
Where: IAC – Inter Arts Center, Bergsgatan 29, 214 22 Malmö
For registration please email to jorgen [dot] dahlqvist [at] thm [dot] lu [dot] serel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" or kent [dot] olofsson [at] uniarts [dot] se
Program
The presentations will be held in Swedish/Scandinavian.
Thursday, April 13th
9:45–10:00
Introducing the SNT research initiative and information from CROCUS
10:00–10:50
Text and music in performance – aspects on the interplay between dramatic writing, acting and musical composition,
Presenter: Kent Olofsson
11:10–12:00
The Augmented Hörspiel – Composed Theatre, Presenter: Magnus Bunnskog
13:00–13:50 Thinking in play, Presenter: Tale Næss
Lunch break
14:10–15:00
The compositional practice as a playwright, Presenter: Vanja Hamidi Isacson
15:30–16:30
Device Lectures – part discourse, part distortion, Presenter: Robert Willim
Artistic presentations & Seminar Bar
18:30
Artistic Presentation: Egots vibrationer by Magnus Bunnskog
19:45
Artistic Presentation: 'Allt vad mina händer grävt upp'
Text: Sima Wolgast & Elisabeth Hjorth. Music: Jörgen Dahlqvist & Sima Wolgast
Artistic Presentation: Fields of Unknowing with Robert Willim
21:00
Artistic Presentation: Karlskrona/Malmö by Jörgen Dahlqvist & Kent Olofsson
Friday, April 14th
10:00–10:50
Writing for a compositional practice, Presenter: Jörgen Dahlqvist
11:10–12:00
Letter-writing as method: 'Allt vad mina händer grävt upp', Presenter: Sima Wolgast & Elisabeth Hjorth
Lunch break
13:00–13:50
A Listening Dramaturgy, Presenter: Tanja Hylling Diers
14:10–15:00
Premises to Create – Investigating “Taste-Based” Biases and Creative Processes of Musicians: An Intervention Study
Presenter: Sima Wolgast & Christine Owman
15:00 Summing up
For more information about the presentations see the following link below:
Welcome!
The first network meeting in 2023 was on the theme of Materiality
THEME MATERIALITY
Welcome to the CROCUS network meeting on March 17, where we discuss how the concept of materiality circulates in relation to body, material, spatiality, expression and representation, how it can contribute to method development and new ways of reflecting in Visual Communication and Artistic Research in Theatre. Note, that the day will be in held in Swedish, hence the titles below in Swedish, with the exception of Østergaard's presentation.
Program:
9.30 - Welcome - Cecilia Fredriksson & Marie Ledendal
9.45-10.15 – Costumes as a kin-making material
Charlotte Østergaard (Costume Designer, PhD student, Malmö Theatre Academy, Lund University)
The presentationen will be given in English.
10:20-10.50 – Craftivism – materialitetens roll som mild protest i det offentliga rummet
Marie Ledendal (Textile Designer, Senior Lecturer, Department of Strategic communication, Lund University)
10:50-11:10 Coffee break
11.10-11.40 – Reflektioner kring blandning av fiktivt och dokumentärt material i scenkonst
Jörgen Dahlqvist (Theater Producer, PhD student, Malmö Theatre Academy, Lund University)
11.45-12.15 – Discussion, moderator, Robert Willim (Artist, Docent, Division of ALM and Digital Cultures, Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences, Lund University)
12.15 - Closing - Cecilia Fredriksson & Marie Ledendal
When: Friday, March 17, 2023, 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m
Where: IAC - Inter Arts Center, Bergsgatan 29, 214 22 Malmö
Registration is required, please sign up by Tue 14 March marie [dot] ledendal [at] isk [dot] lu [dot] se