The Dialogues Podcast Project

The Dialogues Podcast Project is a podcast series produced by students from the Master of Fine Arts (MFA) programme at the HDK-Valand Academy – Art and Design, University of Gothenburg. Our podcasts are a platform for us and our invited researchers from the University of Gothenburg to engage in cross-disciplinary dialogues on issues central to our interests and practices. Each episode aims to foster meaningful dialogue, exploring diverse topics that resonate with both our artistic research and the wider community, such as mental health, surveillance capitalism, interspecies ecologies and affect theory.

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Spaces of Resistance

2024-12-16 06:53:10

In this podcast, we will learn more about a research project that our invited guest, Olga Sasunkevich, was involved in: Spaces of Resistance: A Study of Gender and Sexualities in Times of Transformation. Her project brought together multi-sited ethnography, digital ethnography and comparative analysis. MFA Fine Art students, Maxine Chionh, Julia Florentzi and Kinga Molinska engage Olga in exploring the ways in which feminist and decolonial perspectives in gender studies intersect with their artistic research and practice. Bios: Olga Sasunkevich: Associate Professor in Gender Studies at the Department of Cultural Sciences at the University of Gothenburg. Olga’s research interests revolve around questions of gender, sexuality, migration and ethnicity in Eastern Europe. Maxine Chionh: Student at the MFA Fine Art programme at HDK-Valand with an art and writing practice. Maxine’s research and practice investigate the postcolonial struggle from an East and SE Asian perspective, with an especial interest in persistent coloniality, denialism and missing publics. Julia Florentzi: Student at the MFA Fine Art programme of HDK-Valand. Her artistic practice is oriented around feminist issues, love in patriarchy as well as feminist commons, friendship and protest. In her current studio practice she works with embroidering text and image. She is also into the making of an art book. Kinga Molińska: Student at the MFA Fine Art, HDK-Valand, who develops feminist, spatial, multisensorially integrated artistic methods. Her artistic practice focuses on resonating bodies and bodies in transformation as a departing point to investigate body politics, alternative knowledges (erotic, tactile, sonic, somatic), empathy and collective care.

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Searching for language for the indescribable

2024-12-09 07:44:32

For this podcast episode, three fine art students reached out to one PhD student in social work, to talk about lacking a language for one's lived experience, and its consequences on one's mental health. We talk about existentialism and the body, medicalisation and over-diagnosis, and the potential of finding a new language to talk about those aspects of depression that might lie beyond society’s ready-made metaphors. Bios: Elias Tärnström is a PhD student in the department for social work at Gothenburg university. His upcoming thesis focuses on patients diagnosed with depression's experiences of lacking a language for their depression. It aims to highlight the importance of being understood from existential aspects of one's experiences of depression during treatment interactions with professionals. Vanja Qvarfordt explores her own family's archive of photographs and homemade films to investigate how mental illness has been passed down through three generations of women, and the effects of stigma and silence culture on that inheritance. Marie Bergqvist works with how the dominant narrative surrounding transnational and transracial adoption in "colorblind Sweden" fails to recognize the complex experiences of being adopted, for instance by replacing the term race with ethnicity. Jakob Niedziela critically examines the medicalising language surrounding ADHD, and its structural impact on ADHDers, on an individual and group level. In his current work, he is looking at the potential of tactility and body language functioning as neurodivergent mother-tongues.

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Beyond the Screen: A Dialogue on Data and Humanity

2024-12-02 12:04:48

The meeting, hosted by Irma Beširević, focused on the intersection of technology and humanity, particularly regarding surveillance, capitalism, and data collection. Dr. Jasmina Marić, a senior lecturer in Interaction Design, shared insights on human-computer interaction and user experience. The discussion included personal anecdotes about early interactions with technology, highlighting the evolution from basic devices like the ZX Spectrum to modern digital experiences. The speakers reflected on their screen time and the pervasive influence of technology in daily life, emphasizing the need for awareness of its implications on human behavior and society. Bios: Dr Jasmina Maric is a Senior Lecturer at the Interaction Design and Software Engineering, CSE, Chalmers University, Gothenburg, Sweden. Jasmina holds a PhD in Communication and Information Science from Tilburg University in 2014. She is interested in the topics of HCI, specifically focused on user experience, design, aesthetics, art, applied gaming and social networking for real-world problem implementation. Jasmina teaches at the Interaction Design department focusing on Designing UX, UI, Methodology, and Information Visualization. Irma Beširević explores humanity's evolving relationship with technology and the ongoing technological revolution through new-media art and performance. Her work spans a wide range of materials and media, focusing on the raw, non-directed technological (readymade digital), the human body (and its digital twin), and transparent plastic, with themes of the meta-digital influenced by Fluxus through artistic research.

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