Masteruppsatser / HDK-Valand (2020-)
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Storytelling in the dark
(2025-06)My essay examines how black imagery in film can function as an imaginary room. Through my short film Songbird, I explore how darkness, sound, and the absence of visual representation can transform passive viewers into ... -
COUNTER-TWINNING IN GOTHENBURG
(2026-06)This thesis uses Gothenburg as a site to investigate the development of digital twinning technologies and their impact on the provision of avenues for meaningful civic engagement in the city. This is done in an effort to ... -
Staying in the Questions
(2025)This essay reflects on the relationship between art, artifi cial intelligence, and introspection, centering on how questions, rather than answers, drive creative creation. It starts with a personal experience in Tokyo, ... -
TWO AND A HALF HOURS OF PHONE CALL, AND SHE WAS CRYING
(2025)How do people attracted to men experience love and sex in patriarchy, and how can feminist art, commons, and feminist friendship counteract patriarchal partners and empower women? -
FROM GYM TO GUILDS - On sister-friend tactics, weak resistance, young girls and body politics in contemporary art
(2025)This essay explores the concept of "sister-friend tactics" as a form of weak resistance within the context of body politics and contemporary art. Drawing from personal experiences, feminist theory, and selected artistic ... -
Rehearsals of Refusal: Potential History and Its Anti-Imperial Onto - Epistemology in Artistic Research
(2025)This essay explores Ariella Aïsha Azoulay’s concept of potential history as articulated in her book Potential History: Unlearning Imperialism, focusing specifically on its relationship to artistic research practices. By ... -
Modus - The Sacred Geometry
(2020-05)This project is a study in geometry and form that results in the creation of a work of Art. “Modus” form consists of geometric elements combined in a 3-dimensional form that can be installed in different compositions to ... -
Can I (Please) Have It Back
(2024-05)In "Can I (please) have it back?" I am looking at how violence is stored in the flesh. I am focusing on the journey of healing through three sculptures by taking on the roles both as violator and victim. I look at the ... -
Queering as Artistic Method
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Exploring how systemic design can contribute to tackling the challenge of talent attraction
(2024)This project explores how systemic design can tackle the challenge of talent attraction within the City of Gothenburg. By employing a qualitative methodology that integrates ethnographic approaches with systemic design ... -
TAGO - Create Your Play
(2024)TAGO explores designing a play object that enhances bodily TAGO explores designing a play object that enhances bodily movements, symbolic play, and sensory exploration in indoor play for preschool children aged 3 to 6. ... -
Conversations with friends
(2024)"Conversations with Friends: A Guide to Communicating with Furry Friends." An illustrative guidebook for children that aims to incorporate animal perspectives to foster empathy and respect for animals. It features vibrant ... -
A felted fabulation of vǫlur
(2024)In a composition of sculptures and smaller artifacts, this project seeks to explore the speculative growth of the Nordic Sorceress, The Fyrkat Vǫlva, with the organic aesthetics and water-based methods of the technique, ... -
Unfoldings
(2024)Drawing on the writings of Gilles Deleuze and Sara Ahmed, Unfoldings explores the significance of folds, traces, and materiality. Through studio practice and theoretical inquiry, the materiality of textiles serves as a ... -
Staging an Experience
(2024)Staging an Experience explores the possibilities of staging as a tool to engage the spectator, by activating the spectator. Staging is here considered as a wider concept for setting up for an experience and allowing for ... -
“Det är väl mest bara för läraren?”
(2024)Earlier research show that documentation of the artistic process by students can promote self-assessment, ownership of learning and the development of one's artistic identity. The aim of this study is to deepen the ... -
Still going to DRUM
(2024)This project explores through design the transformative impact of artificial intelligence and automation on labor, particularly within creative fields, through the lens of artisanal AI, AI systems developed with a focus ... -
Subjects of narrative
(2024)Subjects of Narrative researches a design methodology mediating shifts in perception, placing storytelling at its core, through using narratives as a red thread to engage individuals in perceptive experiences. An investigation ... -
Value and Worth
(2024)This project is about the reusing of materials and circular economy in the interior design and architecture industry. I have been exploring the topic and discourse of recycling, in order to execute a project in alignment ...
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