people: Carla Collevecchio

The UmArts Summer Exhibition 2025 celebrates our new Small Visionary Projects in art, architecture, design, sloyd and music. Researchers will present their practice-based work-in-progress investigating issues of sustainability and resilience at different scales. 

This summer we will present several new projects in the UmArts Research Studio including: Little things by Robin Durant; Enargeia by Edith Marie Pasquier; Maker Utopias by Cindy Kohtala, Magnus Wink, Rickard Åström and Sara Rylander; Pushing the Limits of Craft by Sara Rylander; and In-between the lines: an exploration of the street as a place of cultural negotiation by Richard Conway & Sangram Shirke. Architectural experiments around the UmArts Studio building will feature Healing the Wounds by Constanze Hirt; Tooling Ice and Sawdust by Elena Vazquez & Julio Diarte. Throughout the opening day there will be performances including Carla Colleveccio’s Performative Bodies; Göran Wretling’s investigation into AI as a Collaborative Partner in Music; and Edith Marie Pasquier´s Songs for the Slain Birds and Children- 2023 – 2025.

The UmArts Small Visionary Research Projects (SVP) provide seed funding to support research active staff to try out new ideas with big ambitions that contribute to the UmArts research community across the Academy of Fine Arts, Umeå Institute of Design, Umeå School of Architecture, Department of Creative Studies in Education and Bildmuseet. 

Open 11 June to 18 June 12.00-16.00

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Opening Program 11 June 14.00-19.00

14.00-14.10 Opening Summer Exhibition: Welcome by Director Ele Carpenter and Thomas Wågberg, incoming Dean of the Faculty of Technical Science.

14.10-14.30 Performance by Edith Marie Pasquier 

14.30-15.00 Presentations by Robin Durand, Cindy Kohtala, Sara Rylander, Richard Conway

16.00-16.30 Performance Carla Collevechio, Black Box, Curiosum

17.00-17.20 Presentations by Elena Vazquez & Julio Diarte, Constanze Hirt

18.00 Musical performance by Göran Wretling

Um…Crits is an interdisciplinary forum around ongoing artistic research in its broadest sense, often with invited guests. For this session we have invited Carla Collevecchio, lecture at Umeå School of Architecture 

The SVP project Performative Bodies investigates the role of the moving body as a critical mediator in the synthesis of the arts. Through rigorous archival research, it constructs a transhistorical web of interconnected events, mapping ideas, fragments, individuals, movements, theories, and documents that have traversed time and space. This process not only flattens historical narratives but also uncovers new associations when viewed through a contemporary lens. Building upon this mapped network, a selection of these fragments is recontextualized and layered into a performative experiment. A series of rehearsals will explore the emergence of a novel, transdisciplinary methodology, retracing the intersections of the arts through the body as a situated, spatial, and material event. 

Carla Collevecchio’s research project investigates the role of the moving body as a critical mediator in the synthesis of the arts. Through rigorous archival research, it constructs a transhistorical web of interconnected events, mapping ideas, fragments, individuals, movements, theories, and documents that have traversed time and space. This process not only flattens historical narratives but also uncovers new associations when viewed through a contemporary lens. Building upon this mapped network, a selection of these fragments is recontextualized and layered into a performative experiment. A series of rehearsals will explore the emergence of a novel, transdisciplinary methodology, retracing the intersections of the arts through the body as a situated, spatial, and material event. 

Without the body there is no space, nor architecture to be perceived. This assumption is as obvious as it is radical. Space influences movements and behaviors, so it must be designed with fully awareness of its consequences and impact on living. What is the effect that space can have on body movement? How can body movement affect the creation of space itself? What are the mechanisms to choreograph this inseparable relation between body and space?

In this interdisciplinary project Collevecchio is working together with Lotta Lundsted – textile design (Creative studies Umu), Carlos Rada De Moniz – music & composition (Creative studies Umu), Jonas Olsson – light design (Creative studies Umu), Karolina Kowalska – Choreography and dance, Samuel Pettersson -Photography, Albert Berglung – Video making, Carl Papworth – graphic design (Umeå Institute of design Umu), Hanna Kangassalo – Writer/communicator .

The Curatorial Research group meets regularly to discuss curating contemporary art as research process and as a form of knowledge production. This new partnership with Bildmuseet is chaired by curator Anca Rujoiu who is currently undertaking doctoral research in the Curatorial Program at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. The group brings together curators and curatorial researchers focusing on critical frameworks for curatorial practice, new curatorial methodologies, and situating curatorial knowledge in the international field.