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PhD printer performance at the AHA festival Chalmers

Art and Science – how do these 2 worlds communicate with each other, and can this communication be captured into an experience?

The AHA festival’s (www.ahafestival.se) ‘Phd printer’ performance looks into alternative forms of communicating ongoing Phd research at Chalmers and Gothenburg University. Vague Research Studios have chosen 3 current PhD research projects, and translate these into an ongoing afternoon experience.

Vague Research Studios PhD printer consists of a performative sound and material workshop for students where the music from the video “The children, the alcoholics and the artists” produces diverse sounds and spaces. Two guides will be in conversation with PhD students, other researchers and the audience and together launch the printer based on both artistic, technical, social and acoustic research categories.

Vague research Studios: Lena T H Berglin and Kajsa G. Eriksson
Phd’s: Penny Bergman, Lisa Bomble, Karl-Johan Freden Jansson + Anna Maria Orru

Gender Design Exhibition

Vague Reseeach Studios exhibit at the “The Great small – Great Gender-Sensitive Design and small anti-gender design” in HongKong. VRS exhibits “Fluidity vs Norm” illustrating Fluid Design as open and inclusive versus stereotype and normative design.

Opening of the exhibition ”The Circular Ring”

September 6^th“The Circular Ring” finally opened. Premiere of the film “The KIDS, the ALCOHOLICS and the ARTISTS”. Thanks to all of you who attended and special thanks to Adara and Linnea for taking part in the project as well as the opening day.

Exhibition and film release

– What are you doing?
– We are weaving in the trees. What are you doing?

By doing something and being present we have informally met people and through this becoming part of the Circular Ring. Here you can find traces of life… beer in a can, old matches, a dead hare with a stick through the eye, an everyday life in Frölunda.

Västra Frölunda’s Circular Ring was designed in the 1960’s for community recreation. The once popular space is now overgrown and has been forgotten by most. In 2015, the vague space of the Ring will be built upon and disappear from the landscape. The exhibition tells the story of an urban area in rapid change due and shows the discrepancy of the city plans made by the politicians and the actual everyday life of the people living in the area of Frölunda.

The film The Kids, the Alcoholics, and the Artists features original music by Gustav Leijelind accompanied by children from Frölunda Elementary school. Throughout the exhibition, the film will be screened alongside an interactive community weaving activity using textile materials previously installed in the vague space. The exhibition is part of the research project Vague Terrain – Vague Tissue: a pre-study.

Published in Ord&Bild

The article ”Vag Terräng” by Vague Research Studios, Meira Ahmemulic and Kristoffer Folkhammar is published in recent issue of Ord & Bild.

Funding!!!

Vague Research Studios received funding from Kulturbryggan (www.kultur bryggan.se). The funding is destined the project “The Hidden”, aiming to engage surprising and self-organising sound.