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Join Konstfack Research Week and meet Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, Sissel Tolaas and Gernot Wieland
Konstfack Research Week 2022, Curiouser & Curiouser, explores interdisciplinary perspectives on tactile, social, psychological and perhaps even magical aspects from the areas of art, craft, design, interior architecture and furniture design, visual communication and teacher education. The week primarily takes place on four arenas: Views on Research, Parallel Sessions, Nodes and Closing Events. To Views on Research on the first day, we invite all to participate on Zoom, presenting insights from international guest speakers as well as research conducted at Konstfack.
Welcome on 24 January to the programme below at https://konstfack-se.zoom.us/j/62894469812
10.00 Welcome, Maria Lantz, Vice Chancellor
10.15–10.25 Curiouser & Curiouser, a practical guide, Jonatan Habib Engqvist, Project manager, Konstfack Research Week
10.30–11.00 An Introduction to Artistic Research, Magnus Bärtås, Head of Research at Konstfack
11.00–12.00 About Konstfack Research Week Nodes, introductions to the nodes by node-leaders Mårten Medbo, Martín Ávila, Kristina Fridh, Siri Homlong, Ricardo Atienza and Johanna Lewengard.
13.00–14.00 On the Poetics of Disappearance as a Method of Memory, Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung
14.15–15.15 Olfactory enhancement, Sissel Tolaas
15.30–16.30 I look behind me and see myself, laughing, Gernot Wieland
About the keynote speakers:
Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung is an independent curator, author and biotechnologist. He is founder and artistic director of SAVVY Contemporary in Berlin and is the artistic director of Sonsbeek20–24, a quadrennial contemporary art exhibition in Arnhem, the Netherlands. He is professor in the Spatial Strategies MA program at the Weissensee Academy of Art in Berlin. From 2023 he will take on the role of Director at Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) in Berlin.
Artist Sissel Tolaas medium is smell, but her interest is not conventional approaches to scent, which often are characterized by perfumes that camouflage, deodorize, and sanitize reality. For Tolaas, smell is information. She composes smells that stimulate memory, recreate place, capture seasonality, and arouse both emotional and intellectual responses. Toolas simulates complex and often transgressive olfactory experiences to enhance smell sensibilities. She investigates and develops language to communicate smell. She values sensory experience to heighten reality. Born in Norway and based in Berlin, Tolaas studied mathematics, chemical science, languages, and visual art in Norway, Poland, Russia, and the United Kingdom. Her projects and research have been presented in a variety of institutions and contexts all over the world from biennials to research conferences, Tolaas is smell’s principal advocate.
Gernot Wieland, artist and filmmaker, will talk about fairy tales, landscapes, psychotherapeutic settings, and address conditions of power and control, whether found in the classroom, societal norms or one’s own conscience or ego. His artistic practice in recent years has centered above all on video installation and lecture performance. The work often combines historical events with seemingly personal memories where fact and fiction blend. The resulting narratives are complex, beginning with private issues and almost accidentally outlining problems in society. Wieland studied at the University of the Arts in Berlin and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. His films have been shown, for example, at the International Film Festival in Rotterdam, the Kunstverein in Kassel, the Kunsthaus in Graz, the Liverpool Biennial and most recently at the BIENALSUR 2021.
The programme for the whole week is found here if you click. Konstfack Research Week 2022 is organized through Konstfack Research and Doctoral Studies Committee (FFU). Developed and coordinated by Professor & Head of Research Magnus Bärtås and Project manager Jonatan Habib Engqvist.
