BOUNDARIES OF PERFORMING

Come and explore performing arts at Tampere University!

TARU (Tampere University Research Centre for Communication Sciences) is home to the Boundaries of Performing research group, which studies the performing arts from a variety of perspectives. The group provides a research community for researchers at every career stage, from doctoral to postdoctoral and senior researchers, whose work is informed by a vital connection to performing arts practices and interdisciplinary collaboration.

The group's current approaches include artistic research, art research, art and artist pedagogies, and applied performing arts research. Our focus areas include, among others:

– more-than-human performance

– transformative technologies of performing

– object animation

– language, body and dramaturgy

– experimental communities

Find out more about our group on our website: https://research.tuni.fi/boundaries-of-performing/

Doctoral education is organised through the Doctoral Programme in Media, Communication and Performing Arts (DPMCP), and applications are accepted twice a year, in April and October. Researchers are required to finance their own doctoral studies, but we will do our best to help them find funding. When applying for postgraduate studies, you should start the application process – and contact the prospective supervisors – well in advance before the application deadline.

If you are interested in researching performing and performance, please contact Professor Esa Kirkkopelto (Theatre Arts, Artistic Research) at esa.kirkkopelto@tuni.fi and/or Professor Pauliina Hulkko (Theatre Arts, Acting Programme) at paulina.hulkko@tuni.fi.