Research Catalogue

Masterprogram i Dokumentärfilm, Stockholms Dramatiska Högskola 2016-2018

The more they spit on me, the faster I flower We research whether the new technology is able to deepen the documentary narrative, and if so, how? Can we include more voices, tell other stories, and attract a wider audience?  In northern Botkyrka there are million program areas, in the southern rural areas and it is a municipality with clear contradictions. Can the documentary process challenge the polarization of Botkyrka? The new technology takes you home to people in northern and southern Botkyrka where you get to experience everyday life in the suburb and attend festivities and ceremonies. Bird perspective with the camera on drones open eyes in this final report of a three-year project. Research made available with cardboard glasses and 360° video where you are. The constant renegotiation of roles and positions of power that the use of new technology entails opens up new opportunities, but also new risks. It gets a bit swaying, but in a good way! Ethical issues take place in this project during the idea work, on the set, and in the choice of platform and distribution format. But whose reality is portrayed? How? And by whom? Tinna Joné, Assistant professor in documentary storytelling Ewa Cederstam, Cinematographer Katarina Eismann, Media navigator

“We need to distinguish between the logical future, which is the development of the present – and the desired future, which is the world we want to create.” This statement represents the guiding vision for the exhibition ARARAT, shown at Moderna Museet in Stockholm April – July 1976. The exhibition was the product of a large group of people such as artists, architects, researchers, and engineers brought together in a project called Alternative Research in Architecture, Resources, Art and Technology – ARARAT! Students from SKH, Stockholm University of the Arts have been working, thinking, and sitting with this together. Creating, provoking, and forgiving. Lumbung, Collective wisdom and future making. MA program The Art of Impact is after one year in the middle of their education and present work from this spring in this exposition. The one-year freestanding course The Impact of Research presents their exam projects. ARARAT has been revisited before in education, a research project in the course Take a Walk on the Wild Side: Learning from the City and Beyond, Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm, 2014/2015

This exposition introduces the Art + Tech Lab at Stockholm University of the Arts — an emerging artistic research environment dedicated to the intersections of storytelling, technology and creative entrepreneurship. The Lab explores how artistic narratives evolve when shaped through immersive, interactive or algorithmic systems, and how technological experimentation can open new pathways for audiovisual futures. The exposition outlines the motivations behind establishing the Lab, its artistic and pedagogical grounding, and its role within Uniarts’ wider research ambitions. It reflects on the challenges and opportunities of building interdisciplinary research spaces inside an arts university, and considers how the Lab may develop through collaborations, residencies and cross-sector exchange. Rather than presenting a complete archive, this exposition offers a conceptual frame and an initial articulation of the Lab’s research questions and future directions.

This exposition documents The Art of Entrepreneurship – Entrepreneurship as Artistic Practice, a two-year artistic research project exploring how artistic work moves from idea to public encounter. The project investigates how artists and cultural practitioners in a Swedish context navigate aspirations, impact, collaboration, interdisciplinary processes, audience relations, and new forms of distribution. Through interviews, reflective inquiry, and the creation of audio-visual material, the research examines how entrepreneurial methods and models are understood, adapted, or resisted within artistic practice—and how these methods might support more sustainable artistic trajectories. The project’s knowledge-creating approach is grounded in artistic research and co-creative methodology. Rather than treating artists as objects of study within an economic discourse, the research situates entrepreneurial thinking within the artistic field itself. Using mixed methods, including literature review, semi-structured interviews, and collaborative filming, the project brings forward stories of artistic processes, agency, urgency, and the conditions under which artistic ideas materialise and generate societal impact. The exposition presents early findings, thematic patterns, audio-visual portraits, methodological reflections, and ongoing analyses. It also contributes to the development of pedagogy in entrepreneurship within the arts, informing existing SKH educational programmes and supporting the emergence of new content. As a whole, the exposition serves as both documentation and a platform for continued reflection, dialogue, and future publications derived from the project.

WORK IN PROGRESS The project aims to develop participation-based and non-linear forms of documentary storytelling in relation to specific sites: Southern and Northern Botkyrka . The research that will be conducted over three years will include field work, discursive studies of film and theory, process-based practical work, experiments, exhibitions, workshops and seminars. The exposition is part of SCREENING, Stockholm University of the Arts’ Film and Media platform for ongoing artistic research.