IAC

Inter Arts Center is a platform for artistic research and experimentation, established by Lund University.

A masked head with feathers in front of a black background. Photo

The work-in-progress project ‘Electromoves - Game Changers' is a workshop in electro-composition and choreographed audience interaction in 3 parts. Lundgren & Pettersson aim to explore, make a pre-study and an electric soundscape in collaboration with the Malmö based musician & singer Cecilia Nordlund. They will investigate group affiliation and exclusion with a focus on the viewer's attitude and what governs the narrative and group dynamics in a live work through a workshop at IAC.

Emilia Gasiorek in front of a blue curtain, sitting. Photo.

Tumbling into the space after sadness, ‘Lowlands’ is a soft lament to the voice of self critique. The work shapes a meditative landscape of rippling blue tissue paper that lulls and endures. Images emerge evoking a body falling apart and gathering itself together again, a body at sea and a body on a patchwork of waves. 'Lowlands' is a large-scale solo performance by choreographer Emilia Gasiorek that spans the deep blue depths of our personal emotional landscapes and collective geographical environments.

Drawing on red background with person in yoga position. Illustration.

The project “Barbara” (the feminine form of the Greek word barbarous, meaning strange, uncivilized, someone who speaks a broken speech) will depart from Moa Franzén’s work with voice as a choreographic material and tool. Through vocal practices Moa will explore different expressions of what is considered human – as well as nonhuman, or “subhuman” – and how we use them or suppress them according to gendered, social, ideological or private grounds. Where and how is the border between the human and the animal crossed? Where, and when, are the in-betweens and how do they sound? For which bodies?

projects

Creativities transcending boundaries

Research in creativity, within music and broader aspects

May 10th - May 21st

This year’s project will focus on ”Uncertainty and Possibility” emerging as both theoretical concepts and fields of empirical investigation, as students and researchers seek new creative, hopeful and speculative modes of understanding and intervening in a world of crisis. Advancing a practical agenda for future making, it will reveal how uncertainty can be engaged as a generative ”technology” for understanding, researching and intervening the world.

Sound bench at the Botanicall Garden. Photo.

projects

Sound Bench at Botan / Sustainability Week

Jonna Hägg

May 3rd - June 24th

The Sound Environment Centre has acquired a sound bench for different sound experiments, artistic projects and the communication of research. During the Sustainability Week and until mid-summer, the bench will be placed in the Botanical Garden, where a site-specific sound artwork has been developed especially for the bench. For several years, the artist behind the work, Jonna Hägg, has been exploring how the soundscape of the world in general is changing. Human sounds have become so pervasive on earth that we have created a third category just for them: anthropophony. The sound installation is a collaboration between the Sound Environment Centre, the Botanical Garden and the Inter Arts Center, which produced the installation.

events

Exploring visual art auditively

20 May - 21 May 2021

The online symposium brings together researchers, cultural workers, and artists to address topics around the auditive exploration of art, the use of sound, etc. in the context of visual primacy. It will include presentations of existing, ongoing and planned projects, and shall particularly give room to the discussion of related challenges and possibilities. Examined will be, for instance, art formats that make use of sound, music and the auditive, auditive art mediation forms such as guided tours and audio guides, and the use of the auditive to stimulate aesthetic experiences in regard to inclusion.

Model of Memory Wound, a gap cut into the Sørbråten peninsula. Photo.

events

Ethics in research and practice in the artistic field

31 May 2021

The online seminar aims to raise ethical questions in the artistic field, its practice, education and research. How can ethics be understood and practiced in different artistic formats, and how is ethics practiced in artistic education? What happens to the ethical framework when art moves into the research institution and how is the issue of artistic freedom affected? The seminar will feature two keynote speakers, the artist Geir Tore Holm and Professor Karmenlara Ely, as well as a film by Professor Jonas Dahlberg about his design proposal for the memorial for the terrorist attack on Utøya.