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The third issue of Matter Journal is out, with texts from our research collegium on artistic research in theatre and performance. The third issue of Matter brings together texts that explore contemporary performing arts. Tanja Hylling Dier writes about Hjem, a project that shapes place and community through art and participation. Jörgen Dahlqvist examines time as a dramaturgical tool, using the pl
https://www.thm.lu.se/en/article/matter-journal-3 - 2026-05-13
Get to know our MA students who started fall 2025 and will graduate in spring 2027. Elena BinerElena Biner is a Swiss artist living and working in Copenhagen. With a background in visual communication and a strong foundation in storytelling, her practice sits at the intersection of visual arts and performative spaces, specialising in immersive experiences. In her work she blurs the line between re
https://www.thm.lu.se/en/article/presentation-our-master-students-performing-arts-critical-practice-programme - 2026-05-13
We are now announcing the opportunity for project support of up to SEK 150,000 (including overhead costs) to enable artists, artistic researchers and researchers from other scientific disciplines to learn from each other in an open dialogue and exploratory environment. The aim of ArtCollab is to enable artists, artistic researchers, and researchers from other scientific disciplines to learn from
https://www.thm.lu.se/en/article/call-project-funding-artcollab - 2026-05-13
Some years ago, Sven Bjerstedt researched the forgotten Finnish American musician and composer Einar Swan (1903–40) who wrote the immortal song, “When Your Lover Has Gone”. Bjerstedt published an 80-page biography )and participated in one-hour TV and radio documentaries on Einar Swan.Recently, Finland’s former prime minister Esko Aho translated Bjerstedt’s Swan biography into Finnish and included
https://www.thm.lu.se/en/article/finnish-translation-sven-bjerstedts-research-about-composer-einar-swan - 2026-05-13
In November 2025, doctoral students from the Malmö Theater Academy participated in an encounter with researchers in the field of performing arts from around the world.Doctoral students Iury Salustiano Trojaborg and Tanja Hylling Diers from the Theater Academy participated in the three-day meeting for researchers at the beginning of their research careers. The meeting was led by SOL-based researche
https://www.thm.lu.se/en/article/transnational-alliance-researchers-theater-and-performing-arts - 2026-05-13
Lund University has seen a record number of applications for its international recruitment initiative, Global Excellence. Eleni-Ira Panourgia is now joining the Faculty of Fine and Performing Arts as an assistant professor specializing in artificial intelligence (AI).Global Excellence is the university's largest international recruitment initiative to date and aims to strengthen world-leading rese
Sven Bjerstedt, professor of music education at Malmö Theatre Academy, recently published an article in the journal KronoScope. Journal for the Study of Time: “Awareness of Time and Experience of Conscious Mental Processes during Musical Activity”.How may changes in musicians’ experience of time influence their impressions of having conscious intentions during musical activity? In this essay I wil
The annual Sustainability Week in Lund is fast approaching, with a packed programme once again this year. From the Faculty of Fine and Performing Arts, we find music, performance and artistic research in interactive events that aim to do more than simply inform — they aim to move people.Sustainability is a multifaceted field that extends far beyond the natural sciences. The concept also encompasse
https://www.thm.lu.se/en/article/sustainability-you-can-feel-artistic-perspectives-during-sustainability-week-lund - 2026-05-13
ALL MY RELATIONS 2 is a 3-days transdisciplinary workshop that explores the ecological potential of performance, performativity and eco-pedagogy. Extended deadline to apply, 9 august. For the second time we now arrange this three-day workshop in Gylleboverket, a center for ecological art located in the Skåne countryside. The purpose of this event is to study the possibilities and limitations of
https://www.thm.lu.se/en/article/all-my-relations-2 - 2026-05-13
The new international Master’s programme in Performing Arts with a specialisation in Critical Practice and a social focus is a two-year, full-time study. The programme brings together innovative performing arts practices with critical reflection, and promotes expertise in initiating and building new alliances and arenas both within and outside existing structures. It aims to educate artists who ca
https://www.thm.lu.se/en/article/get-know-our-masters-programme-students - 2026-05-13
During the Gallery Weekend at the Inter Arts Center, the short documentary "Voinha's Backyard" will be premiered and Iury will talk about her artistic work with C. Grace Chang. "In December 2022 I went back to my maternal grandmother Voinha’s first address in Nova Iguaçu, Rio de Janeiro, the same place where we had last met in September 2018, when I recorded an interview to investigate the reasons
Welcome to an open lecture with Edit Kaldor, head of the MA Performing Arts as Critical Practice. Edit will present her doctoral research project The Many and the Form. During the PhD she explored in various artistic contexts how lived knowledges can be articulated in and through live performance. Notions as social desire, code-switching, performance as situation, and the movement between isolatio
https://www.thm.lu.se/en/article/open-lecture-edit-kaldor-many-and-form - 2026-05-13
In this research event, professor Shannon Jackson and curator Milena Högsberg discuss curatorial and performance methods that create critical dialogues with a specific landscape. The discussion is facilitated by Gigi Argyropoulou, curator, writer, practitioner and post doc researcher at Malmö Theatre Academy. Welcome to Inter Arts Center, Friday 13 October 17.30-19.00. No need to register in advan
https://www.thm.lu.se/en/article/research-event-performance-and-politics-landscapes - 2026-05-13
"Transformative Encounters" is a podcast series dedicated to the exploration and unpacking of the concept "performative encounters" within the realm of contemporary performance, how it can be understood and what its affordances are. This series forms an integral part of the knowledge dissemination deriving from the artistic research project How Little is Enough? that is centered on sustainability
https://www.thm.lu.se/en/article/new-podcast-series-transformative-encounter - 2026-05-13
This public lecture and conversation explore the specificities and possibilities of using forensic approaches in contemporary live performance. It is the first in a series on Critical Performance Practices, and it’s organized by the MA Performing Arts as Critical Practice at Malmö Theatre Academy. With Stefanos Levidis – Forensic Architecture and choreographer Arkadi Zaides Choreographer Arkadi Za
https://www.thm.lu.se/en/article/forensic-approaches-live-performance - 2026-05-13
PlaySpace (PS) is a new international online Open Access and peer-reviewed journal dedicated to critical perspectives on artistic research. In this essay, Iury analyzes how the artefacts of questioning and listening became resourceful in the procedure of excavating the personal and political reasons behind the migration journey her maternal grandmother Voinha embarked on in 1945 from Ananindeua an
Students from our international master’s programme and acting programme year 1 and 2 will participate in this years edition of Malmö Community Biennal. The Malmö Community Biennal return for its third time to shine a light on creative projects, productions and ideas that are being generated by and with local communities – challenging the division between ‘professional’ and ‘non-professional.’ Make
https://www.thm.lu.se/en/article/our-students-participate-malmo-community-biennal-2023 - 2026-05-13
Welcome to us the 18 December for a research event that focuses on how the individual and collective body becomes a politized body when partaking in demonstrations, riots, or activist art. We have invited visual artist Maj Hasager, performing artist Linn Hilda Lamberg and professor at Department of Gender Studies Helle Rydstrom to discuss how to approach the politicized body in relation to art, id
https://www.thm.lu.se/en/article/thinking-together-politicized-body - 2026-05-13
Matter Journal will be released on February 1st, highlighting the interplay between art, pedagogy, and ecology. The journal is an outcome of the All My Relations camp, where artists and researchers shared methods and ideas. The first issue of Matter is an echo from All My Relations a three-day Eco camp for artists and researchers on Eco-Pedagogy, Self-Cultivation and Transformative Performance Pra
https://www.thm.lu.se/en/article/launch-journal-artistic-research-theatre-and-performance - 2026-05-13
The participants in the MA Performing Arts as Critical Practice have started their independent Work in the Field projects this Spring. The eight participants have partnered up with performing arts venues and will conduct artistic investigations, involving different communities and organizations in Malmö, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Prague, and the small island of Møn. They will be sharing their researc
https://www.thm.lu.se/en/article/work-field-students-ma-performing-arts-critical-practice - 2026-05-13
