This research group looks at local knowledge, practices, and narratives of doing, experiencing, and teaching art. We question approaches to arts, arts education, what is considered art and how arts is knowledge.

The research group is interested in (the making of) arts as in-between spaces of local and global knowledge, practices and ideas. The members of the research group engage in transdisciplinary and transcultural research, and explore performative, bodily learning practices and practice-led research methodologies, performative inquiry, artistic arts-based perspectives, and post-human theories to challenge the concept of knowledge in an academic context.

Each person has unique knowledge being a consequently changing assemblage of local and global knowledges. This knowledge enrich the classroom and we consider this a resource and a space to explore. We understand local knowledge and this uniqueness as equivalents. The group aims at acknowledging the existing interdependence of local and global practices and their dynamics and explore/inquire how this can strengthen diverse sustainable innovative arts educational practices.

Our aim is to explore and to inquire how artistic, arts-based, and local practices can unlock diversity potentials and creative learning, as well as diversity can open ways of doing art within a global/local educational frame.

Group activities

• Seeking collaboration with other groups and departments, both within humanities, natural sciences and (arts) communities outside academia. 
• Arranging and curating seminars, workshops and performances to challenge and question approaches to arts, arts education, what is considered art and how arts is knowledge.
• Cooperating with suitable partners in global South and facilitate, strengthen and support South/North dialogues for sustainable arts/knowledge production.
• Designing and organizing capacity building seminars, workshops and performances on artistic and arts-based methodologies. 
• Publishing and dissemination on the research groups focuses in journals, conferences, newspapers, performative spaces and other suitable venues. 

Projects

Active

• Multimodal relationalities in local/global arts education practices.
• Seeding actions Seeding Actions by Polina Golovátina-Mora (researchcatalogue.net)
• Three dances: Traditional education in a modern society. Three dances (padlet.com)
• Multimodal International collaboration in Education
• Ubiquitous learning-teaching experiences for active aesthetic learning
• Performative teaching. 

Finalized

• Tradition, democratization and the art of becoming modern.
• A performative perspective on untamed stories told by artful creative artists in Norway and Malawi.
• Becoming young modern traditional dancers.

Selected publications and conference papers of the members

Golovátina-Mora, P., Skjøstad Hovde, Sunniva, Pernille Østern, Tone (2022). RUUKKU – Studies in Artistic Research 19: Making Artistic Research Public.

Golovátina-Mora, P. (2022). Reading the paintings, watching the poems: towards the post-media inquiry with networked textualities. Cultural Studies <=> Critical Methodologies 22 (4)

Hovde, S. S. (2019). The Traditional Concept Umunthu as entangled in a Malawian Dance Teacher’s Educational Practice. Journal for Research in Arts and Sports Education, 3(1).

Østern, A.-L., & Hovde, S. S. (2019). Untamed stories told by artfully creative artists in Malawi and Norway. I A.-L. Østern & K. N. Knudsen (Red.), Performative Approaches in Arts Education: Artful Teaching, Learning and Research (s. 168–192). Routledge.

Hovde, S., Maulidi, A. S., & Østern, T. P. (2021). Towards Just Dance Research: An uMunthu Participatory and Performative Inquiry Into Malawian–Norwegian Entanglements (1. utg., s. 59–80). Routledge.

Golovátina-Mora, P., Skjøstad Hovde, Sunniva, Reistadbakk, Egil (2022, September 24). Engaging with listening to create the sounds. Convergence 2022, September 22-25, De Montfort University, Institute for Sonic Creativity, Leicester, UK, virtual.

Golovátina-Mora, P., Raul A. Mora (April, 2022). “On Spoons, Pots, and the Rhythms of the Street: Champeta as Literacy Practice”. International Conference “Decolonizing tertiary dance education: Time to act”, SKH, Sweden and Makerere University, Uganda, online, April 7-8, 2022.

For further questions please contact the group’s leaders Polina Golovátina-Mora and Sunniva Skjøstad Hovde.