University of Agder, Faculty of Fine Arts

About this portal
The Faculty of Fine Arts at UiA aims to display the wide range of our artistic research work and highlight our unique profile - where we include both artistic performance, educational and academic ways of working without regarding them as rigidly divided.
We invite our staff to show and publish artistic research in the broadest sense, with an emphasis on using modalities other than text to show the work. The faculty uses Research in the Arts as an overarching term for the design and aim of multimodal publication through RC, and we will draw on the traditions of both Artistic Research and Arts Based Research.
contact person(s):
Astrid Marie Lund Gilje 
url:
https://www.uia.no/om-uia/fakultet/kunstfag/
Recent Issues
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2. Published works at ph.d level
Reviewed and published doctoral dissertations.
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Master thesis from 2023 to date.
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Recent Activities
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Armenian Fingerprints
(2019)
author(s): Mariam Kharatyan
connected to: University of Agder, Faculty of Fine Arts
published in: Norwegian Artistic Research Programme
"Armenian Fingerprints - interpreting the piano music of Komitas and Khachaturian in light of Armenian folk music" is an artistic research project by pianist Mariam Kharatyan, at the University of Agder and the Norwegian Artistic Research Programme, during 2015-2019.
Mariam Kharatyan is an Armenian classical pianist. Throughout this project she has been focused on the interpretation of classical piano music from the performer's perspective, aimed to find her own way of interpreting several major piano compositions written by the Armenian composers Komitas (1869-1935) and Aram Khachaturian (1903-1978). Approaching the interpretation strongly inspired from Armenian folk music, she has explored in-depth the impact of the interplay between classical and folk music in her playing, and what interpretational possibilities might emerge in piano works of Komitas and Khachaturian when listening to Armenian folk music and responding to it through musical expression in classical pianism. This exposition is the reflection of the project, on artistic processes, choices, and results.
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Cross cultural meetings: Traditional music from Setesdal and world musicians
(2017)
author(s): Ingolv Haaland, Jeremy Welsh, Bjørn Ole Rasch
connected to: University of Agder, Faculty of Fine Arts
published in: Research Catalogue
The starting point for the project is a set of recordings by Norwegian folk-musicians of Norwegian folk-songs in the “stev og slåtte” (stave and tune) tradition of Setesdal in Agder. This source material was presented to musicians around the world in various studio sessions. The musicians did immediate responses after listening to a song, connecting to the music and establishing a dialogue. The purpose of this article is to document and provide insight into some of the processes in this artistic research project. The album FERD was released on Grappa Records 17.09.17 and a 70 minute film documentary will be released in 2018.
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Strukturer i gitarimprovisasjon
(last edited: 2025)
author(s): Øystein Stenersen Opdal
This exposition is in review and its share status is: visible to all.
Masteroppgave, Øystein Stenersen Opdal
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Inn i margen
(last edited: 2024)
author(s): Nina Björkendal
connected to: University of Agder, Faculty of Fine Arts
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
Into the margin/In the marrow
This is a woodcut printmaking project based on the book as body, form and platform. It is about the formal aesthetic layout of a book, but also about references to the bodily. In norwegian you have the expression "to feel something into the marrow" leads to reflections on identity and feelings. Also the word marrow is the same as margin. The book's margin offers space for the eye and space for your own notes. It becomes a way to communicate with the author's voice. The types, i.e. the letters in the prints, are found objects. Random bits that others have made. The woodcuts are shown both as framed pictures on the wall, and bound as pages in five different books.
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Dürers Kleden
(last edited: 2024)
author(s): Nina Björkendal
connected to: University of Agder, Faculty of Fine Arts
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
her skal det komme en oppsummering
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WE LEFT EDEN - Marius Igland Group
(last edited: 2024)
author(s): Marius Igland
connected to: University of Agder, Faculty of Fine Arts
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
We left Eden
Performed by
Marius Igland Group
Musicians:
Sebastian Grüchot Violin
Trygve Rypestøl Sax
Bjørn Rønnekleiv Clarinets
Marius Igland Guitar
Espen Grundetjern Bass
Trygve Tambs-Lyche Drums
Production
Camera Andi Gyberg
Lights design Andi Gyberg
Sound Engineer Espen Grundetjern
Consultant Espen Grundetjern
Producer Marius Igland
Editor Marius Igland
Mix/master Marius Igland
Music
All compositions and arrangements by Marius Igland
Timestamps:
0:14 - Prologue
3:18 - I - A different Animal
11:55 - II - Exploring
19:15 - III - Ambience
27:55 - IV - Water
32:59 - V - Anthropocen
41:07 - VI - Chronophobia
48:31 - VII - Forward we go
53:12 - VII - Returning
This production was shot live in Kristiansand, Norway
12th of May, 2024