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Uniarts was established in 2014 and have about 500 students and 250 employees. With our unique composition of education and artistic research, we want to create new opportunities for societal development and knowledge of tomorrow.

On 1 June 2016 Uniarts was authorised to award artistic third-cycle degrees in artistic practices. Exposition is an integrated part of artistic work at Uniarts. Each research project must present (stage, narrate, sing, choreograph and so on) its results in a way that is both rigorous and consistent. This requires research to be critically reviewed by peers in a combination of different exposition formats. By developing different formats in which peer review can be carried out, research within the area also addresses the challenges that arise when research is formulated and presented in forms that communicate through an artistically performed experience, and thereby contributes to pushing the boundaries that existing forms of publication and dissemination of research set for the ambitions of artistic research.

Stockholm University of the Arts enables its researchers, PhD Candidates and staff to present their projects and findings on Uniarts’ RC portal in order to publish, archive, and internationally connect their artistic research.

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  Practicing art - as a habit? / Att utöva konst - som en vana? (2017) author(s): Annette Arlander connected to: Stockholm University of the Arts published in: Ruukku
  This bilingual exposition (English and Swedish) presents and problematizes the relationship between artistic practice and habit, describing two projects that deal with repetition and place. The projects 'Solsidan' and 'Summer at Söder' were undertaken during the years 2015-2016 in Stockholm. The idea of repetition and returning to the same site were crucial, as in much of my previous works. Unlike them, neither of these two projects involved performances for camera; in both the actual practice consisted of video recording the view. The shift in emphasis from an artistic practice aiming to produce an artwork, into an activity undertaken mainly as an exercise, an activity, could be seen as a strand in the general trend in contemporary art since the 1960s and accentuated in this century towards valuing the 'working' of art above the work of art as an object. This trend can also be related to research and linked to the preference for various terms like practice as research, performance as research, creative arts research or, indeed, artistic research. - This exposition combines a description of the actual practice, with an encounter with the material generated through that practice and proposes that these works can exemplify artistic research as a speculative practice.
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  Working With a Witches’ Broom / Att Arbeta med en Markvast (2015) author(s): Annette Arlander connected to: Stockholm University of the Arts published in: Ruukku
  This exposition explores the specific materiality that a Witches’ Broom offers for performance-based artworks, referring to ideas on plant-thinking by Michael Marder (2013) and on vibrant matter by Jane Bennett (2010). A witches’ broom, Taphrina betulina, is a fungus that afflicts certain birch trees and causes outgrowths of small twigs. With such a bunch of sticks I performed for camera and live on several occasions during the years 2006-2008 creating variations with only a few elements. Working with various materials – organic matter, digital moving images and recorded speech – and the various combinations of them, including the versions discarded during the process, provides a starting point for looking at the small transformations that produce difference and for proposing variation as one of the basic methods for artistic research.
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  MEDIABORGARNA (last edited: 2018) author(s): My Häggbom connected to: Stockholm University of the Arts This exposition is in progress.
  Mediaborgarna är en del av Screening som samlar pågående forskningsprojekt på Film och Media på StDH/SKH. Mediaborgarna undersöker den dagsaktuella samtidsberättelsens gestaltningsformer och utmanar gränserna mellan fakta och fiktion, nyheter och drama, mediala och performativa konstnärliga praktiker i gränslandet mellan viljan att förstå och behärska och viljan att bli förförd och underhållen. Projektet består av förstudie i LABB, tre experiment: CitizenNews, ArtNews, BedtimeNews samt ett reflektionsdokument i form av en audiovisuell essä. Fler projekt inom Screening finns på: http://www.uniarts.se/om-skh/stockholms-dramatiska-hogskola/institutionen-for-film-och-media/screening
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  The merchandising of artistic research art and artistic research theory – An institutionalised critique (last edited: 2017) author(s): Bogdan Szyber connected to: Stockholm University of the Arts This exposition is in progress.
  ”That Howard Hawks made so many good movies without actually having a theory of moviemaking was a strong sign that he must really have a fantastic theory of the movies, if he would only tell you.” / Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, January 12, 2015 The area involved in my inquiry is the economy of labour within artistic research, an area of academized art practice being elevated and validated within higher and higher hierarchies of The Higher Education Industry, a part of The Knowledge Economy. This economy, or market, inside international networks of that (severely politicized) industry, will by necessity produce it’s own line of artistic research art as well as it’s own line of artistic research theory. I call these two products Edu-art and Edu-theory; Edu being a short form for Education. What is being produced and for what purposes, inside our artistic research milieu? What in particular distinguishes edu-art from out-of-academia art-art? Which are its characteristics in relation to the economy, the labour, the production processes, the audience, it’s dissemination, documentation and archiving?
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