Conference in 2021: Hamlet and the North
01.09.2020
We publish scholarly articles on and with scenography, and review performing arts events, exhibitions, and films. We also happily share the latest news on our work with you.
We are happy to contribute to the Critical Costume on-line conference and web library. Please join us, spread the word and feel free to share the on-line reference library with presentations and flash talks about the latest in costume theory and practice. See our videos here!
We congratulate Dr Olga Nikolaeva on her international postdoc project granted the Swedish Research Council spring 2020.
Here we go again - more scenography research! Finally, my testing of expanded scenography as a scholarly tool for accessing long gone audience experiences in multimodal situations has been published. The chapter contributes to the interdisciplinary field of scenography studies. I hope that interested readers can persuade libraries to make the...
This article, testing Rachel Hann's scenography theory on historical material, is now finally accessible https://tidsskrift.dk/nts/issue/current (scroll down, click on pdf) Enjoy!
New groundbreaking book on costume
18.05.2020
We are very excited about the upcoming book Performance Costume - New Perspectives and Methods, eds Sofia Pantouvaki & Peter McNeil, Bloomsbury 2020. This is a much needed comprehensive overview of costume theory and methods to understand costume agency, firmly based in new costume theory and case studies. Viveka is happy to contribute to the...
CC20 goes online
21.04.2020
The upcoming conference Critical Costume 2020: COSTUME AGENCY in Oslo this August will be hosted in a new format, as a digital/online event. The conference will take place on the same dates as planned; August Friday 21st till Sunday 23rd 2020. Here is some information on the updated plans:
Nu har äntligen min och Eszter Szalszers artikel om Carl Grabow kommit. Vi gör en dialogisk omläsning av Grabows i tidigare forskning nedvärderade och utskällda skisser till urpremiären av Strindbergs Ett drömspel (1907). I vår undersökning använder vi kritisk arkivteori, ikonografi och ny scenografiteori i för att skapa en konstruktiv...
New multisensory research at the department of cultural sciences, presented at the research day 5 February 2020. Viveka Kjellmer on scent as communication tool, Astrid von Rosen on physical action as research method and Helena Holgersson on how to take anxiety seriously.
Call for Participation: Critical Costume 2020: COSTUME AGENCY