Event

Artistic Research Week 2025

13-17 October
Seminar room, Umeå Academy of Fine Arts


Umeå Academy of Fine Arts and UmArts warmly invite you to the first Artistic Research Week hosted by the MFA in Fine Art; and leading up to the opening of the Art and Truth-Telling exhibition at Bildmuseet on 17 October. 

Presentations and discussion of research projects by artists across Art, Design, Architecture and Creative Studies, with invited guests Julie Crawshaw, Susanne Ewerlöf and Trine Hansen. 

Presentations will include creative ways of mediating art, ideas and practice through talks, performance lectures, performance, sound, workshops with time for critical reflection and discussion. 

Monday 13/10

9-9.30 Intro

9.30-10.30 Lotta Lundstedt

10.30-11 Fika

11-12 Daniel Shanken

14.00 Anneli Bäckman

Tuesday 14/10

9-9.30 Check-in

9.30-10.30 Edith Marie Pasquier

10.30-11 Fika

11-12 Maria Lantz

Wednesday 15/10

9-9.30 Check-in

9.30-10.30 Rob Collins

10.30-11 Fika

11-12 Luis Berrios-Negron

Thursday 16/10

9-9.30 Check in

9.30-10.30 Julie Crawshaw

10.30-11 Fika

11-12 Susanne Ewerlöf and Trine Hansen

Friday 17/10

9-9.30 Check-in

9.30-10.30 Lisa Nyberg

10.30-11 Fika

11-12 Gerd Aurell, Micael Norberg and Daniel Westman

13.00 Art and Truth-Telling Exhibition Tour, Bildmuseet

Speakers from within the UmArts research network:  

Lotta Lundstedt, Associate professor, Department of Creative Studies in Education, Umeå University   

Daniel Shanken, UmArts WASP-HS Art+AI Postdoctoral Research Fellow Umeå School of Architecture  

Edith Marie Pasquier, Associate professor at Umeå Academy of Fine Arts 

Maria Lantz, visiting professor at Umeå Academy of Fine Arts, former Rektor of Konstfack 

Robert Collins, PhD candidate at Umeå Institute of Design 

Luis Berríos-Negrón, Associate professor at Umeå School of Architecture 

Lisa Nyberg, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Umeå Academy of Fine Arts .

Gerd Aurell, lecturer; Micael Norberg, Associate Prof; Daniel Westman artist and technician; Umeå Academy of Fine Arts. 

Guest speakers:  

Anneli Bäckman is a curator at Gaaltije Museume in Östersund and co-curator of the upcoming exhibition Art and Truth-Telling opening on Friday 17th at Bildmuseet.  

Julie Crawshaw is Associate Professor of Arts at Northumbria University where she is Head of the School of Design, Arts and Creative Industries. Her transdisciplinary work makes translations between art practice and the practice concerns and orientations of the social sciences and social studies of science. Her publications explicate the values of art practice/research in academia beyond the broad field of art studies or artistic research specifically. Her first monograph ‘Art Worlding: Planning Relations’ (2022) is concerned with urban and rural planning. Her second monograph (in development) is concerned with organisation studies and how artist-led practice(s) can inform this field.   

Susanne Ewerlöf is an artist, curator, and PhD student in Artistic Research at HDK Valand (Gothenburg/Sweden). Her work is focused on lost ancestral knowledge among Forest Sami and other contexts where colonialism has removed a connection with the past. The project explores how fabulation and other artistic strategies may reconnect communities with erased ancestral memories and lost indigenous knowledges. Ewerlöf has a background in curating and collaborates closely with artists and communities. She holds a MRes degree in Curatorial/Knowledge from Goldsmiths University of London, as well as degrees in Culture and Media and Curating Art from Linköping and Stockholm University, respectively.  

Moderators: Per Nilson, Head of Academy of Fine Arts; Ele Carpenter, Professor Interdisciplinary Art and Culture, Director of UmArts. 

Project Assistant: Lou Patrouix, UmArts Project Assistant.