Jag fångades av dekorsnickeriets sinnrika konstruktioner och dess strävan att finna pragmatiska lösningar anpassade till teaterrummets särskilda krav på mångsidighet, flexibilitet och hanterbarhet. I mitt arbete redovisar och resonerar jag kring ett urval av grundläggande teknikeroch metoder. Samt vad som är kännetecknande för arbetet i ateljéverkstaden. Hur detta tillsammans skulle kunna tillämpas inom möbelkonstruktion och utformande av offentliga miljöer. Dessa egenskaper, tekniker och tillvägagångssätt skapar tillsammans med mina egna erfarenheter inom möbelsnickeri ett ramverk kring en undersökande formgivnings och tillverkningsprocess av en möbel. Jag ser detta arbete som en riktning i min utvecklingsprocess som konstruktör och möbelsnickare. Vidare ser jag ett ökat behov av flexibla och slitstarkamöbler för att möta framtida krav på ökad resurshushållning av våra gemensamma tillgångar. / I was caught up in the ingenious constructions of décor carpentry and its efforts to find pragmatic solutions adapted to the theatre room’s particular demands for versatility, flexibility and manageability. In my work, I present and discuss a selection of basic techniques and methods. And what is characteristic of the work in the studio workshop. How this could be applied together in furniture construction and the design of public environments.These characteristics, techniques and approaches, together with my own experience in furniture carpentry, create a framework for an investigative design and manufacturing process of a piece of furniture. I see this work as a direction in my development process as a designer and furniture carpenter. Furthermore, I see an increased need for flexible and durable furniture tomeet future demands for increased resource management of our common assets.

CHILDHOOD REVOLUTION AT UNGA KLARA - A performance analysis of ’För att jag säger det’ from a gender perspective LINNÉA WÄISÄNEN Abstract The Swedish professional theatre for children and young audiences is in a constant change, development and renewal due to adulthoods shifting view and understanding of the child and childhood through the ages. The shifting discourse of childhood can be seen both in the various theatre performances for children and young audiences throughout the 20th century, but also in the constant shifting discussions and debates about what sort of performances are appropriate for children. The base of this thesis is a performance analysis of a recorded version of Unga Klara’s För att jag säger det from a gender perspective, with a focus on the stage setting and the mise-en-scène, along with the actors’ performative actions. The purpose is to examine if and how these theatrical signs counteracts or correlates with gender and hetero norms, but also investigate if the complex relationship between childhood and adulthood can be seen in the performance. To do this, I use a combination of hermeneutics, theatre semiotics and phenomenology as my main methodological starting point. Theories about gender performativity and discourse analysis in childhood studies serve as perspectives to the analysis and interpretation of the performance. The analysis starts with a brief introduction to the performance along with a discussion about the dramaturgical structure and the course of events and situations taking place in För att jag säger det. The analysis continues with a discussion about the theatrical space, in particular the stage space in relation to the starting point of the performance, along with the theatrical communication between the actors and the audience. Then, I discuss the theatrical signs that first caught my attention; the actors’ performative bodies and the music and stage sounds, where I analyse my comprehension of the actors’ performative bodies from a gender perspective. The analysis then continues to a more argument based interpretation of the interactions between the actors and the audience, and follows by a discussion of the actors impersonation of childhood and adulthood. In the last part of the analysis I identify and discuss my understanding of various themes and messages in För att jag säger det. The result of the study implies that a few sequences of the staging along with the actors’ performative bodies in För att jag säger det correlates to gender and hetero norms, but mostly the performance discourages normativity in general. The complex relationship between childhood and adulthood are however well established in the performance’s staging, and can be found in how the actors portraits childhood versus adulthood. It is also visible in the interactive communicational parts between the stage and the auditorium, which only occurs under the terms and conditions of the actors. Keywords: Unga Klara, gender, performativity, performance analysis, childhood revolution, theatre for children and young audiences

This master’s thesis is concerned with the portrayal of motherhood and mother-daughter relationships on stage. By conducting performance analyses of three separate contemporary performances, all focused on mother-daughter relationships, the thesis investigates the creation of mother and daughter on stage. Through the lens of Hans-Thies Lehmann’s theory on postdramatic theatre, the thesis dissects aspects of the performances moving beyond the dramatic action to gain further insight into the portrayal of mother and daughter on stage. The thesis aims to investigate the aspects contributing to the creation of mother and daughter on stage, as well as analyse the conveyed meaning of the relationship between them. Combined with a feminist approach, the role of mother and daughter on stage is placed in a larger context, analysing motherhood as an institution and concept, both on and off stage. By understanding the intimate and complex mother-daughter relationship as a product of patriarchal structure, it becomes necessary and relevant to investigate this relationship further. Since the performances portray private relationships in a public space, the analysis is also concerned with the interrelation between the stage and the outside world. The analysed performances are Und dann kam Mirna at the Maxim Gorki Theatre in Berlin, Kung Mor at Teater Galeasen in Stockholm and Mommy Issues at Kulturhuset Stadsteatern in Stockholm. The material for the thesis mainly consists of my experiences of the performances in the role of spectator and the theatre texts. By using Lehmann’s theory as a starting point, the analyses are centred around moving beyond the narrative to investigate other aspects on stage, such as objects, physicality, levels of reality, intertextuality, intermediality and the use of text on stage. The thesis dissects how these aspects contribute to the creation of mother and daughter on stage, as well as analyses the portrayed generational differences and their impact on the mother-daughter relationship in the performances. The analyses place the portrayed mothers and daughters into a larger context, by including concepts such as performativity and the male gaze. The thesis shows how the portrayal of motherhood and mother-daughter relationships on stage can be created by reaching beyond a narrative or a desired understandability. Together, the three performance analyses contribute with concluding insights into the internal logic and structures of the performances.

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I have for as long as I can remember been interested and fascinated by theatre performances and their ability to create meaning, significance and understanding towards their audience. This has later on turned into a growing interest and curiosity for the rehearsal process, as it is within the rehearsals the meaning-making aspects of a performance are both created and produced. Moreover has this curiosity generated to be a somewhat basis for this research.  Through a lens of dramaturgy is this study seeking to investigate how meaning, significance and narrative are created and established within a rehearsal process, namely the rehearsal process of Mellanförskapet at Unga Dramaten. Explore the in-between-ness of the rehearsal process in relation to the upcoming theatrical event and moreover focus on the dramaturgical strategies within the rehearsal. By engaging with autoethnographic methods for observing the rehearsals, is the aim of this study to investigate how meaning making practices within the theatre can be understood in the eye of an observer. Semi-structured interviews with the creative team have further on contributed to additional knowledge and valuable information about the rehearsal process in general. Moreover serves the concept of making meaning as a basis for the theoretical framework, discussed in relation to meaning making practices within the theatre, namely dramaturgy and performative actions. Since Mellanförskapet aims toward teenagers as its primary audience, are aspects of theatre for a younger audience [TYA] discussed in relation to dramaturgical strategies within the rehearsal process. Moreover are themes and topics raised within Mellanförskapet such as intercultural identity, racism and bullying discussed in regards to TYA as well as dramaturgical strategies within the rehearsal process.

Syftet med studien är att undersöka hur två yrkesverksamma personer inom regionteater upplever hur det är att arbeta med teater för skolbarn. Den teoretiska utgångspunkten för studien är fenomenologisk då det är två personers erfarenheter och upplevelser som lyfts fram. Studien är kvalitativ och datainsamlingen gjordes genom semistrukturerade intervjuer. Resultatet visar att teater är viktigt för barns personliga utveckling och deras förståelse för omvärlden. En av de utmaningar som beskrivs av respondenterna är kopplad till den miljö där föreställningarna framförs i skolsammanhang eftersom den upplevs som okontrollerbar. Ytterligare en utmaning som framkommer är när teaterns och skolans förväntningar skiljer sig åt. Det finns även en stor variation mellan kommuner när det gäller att köpa in teaterföreställningar för skolbarn

Cette thèse en recherche-création est une réflexion sur l’espace du geste-son. La dé- marche artistique de l’auteure, reposant sur six éléments : le corps, le son, le geste, l’image vidéo, l’espace physique et l’espace technologique, a été intégrée dans la conception d’un système de captation de mouvement en vision par ordinateur, le SICMAP (Système In- teractif de Captation du Mouvement en Art Performatif). Cette approche propose une nouvelle pratique performative hybride. Dans un premier temps, l’auteure situe sa démarche artistique en s’appuyant sur les trois piliers de la méthodologie transdisciplinaire : les niveaux de Réalité et de perception (le corps et l’espace-matière), la logique du tiers inclus (l’espace du geste-son) et la com- plexité (éléments du processus de création). Ces concepts transdisciplinaires sont ensuite mis en relation à travers l’analyse d’œuvres arborant un élément commun à la démarche de l’auteure, soit le corps au centre d’un univers sensoriel. L’auteure met ensuite en lumière des éléments relatifs à la pratique scénique susci- tée par cette démarche artistique innovante à travers le corps expressif. Le parcours du performeur-créateur, menant à la conception du SICMAP, est ensuite exposé en passant par une réflexion sur l’« instrument rêvé » et la réalisation de deux interfaces gestuelles pré- paratoires. Sous-entendant une nouvelle gestuelle dans un contexte d’interface sans retour haptique, la typologie du geste instrumental est revisitée dans une approche correspondant au nouveau paradigme de l’espace du geste-son. En réponse à ces recherches, les détails de la mise en œuvre du SICMAP sont ensuite présentés sous l’angle de l’espace technologique et de l’application de l’espace du geste- son. Puis, les compositions réalisées lors du développement du SICMAP sont décrites d’un point de vue artistique et poïétique à travers les éléments fondateurs du processus de création de l’auteure. La conclusion résume les objectifs de cette recherche-création ainsi que les contributions de cette nouvelle pratique performative hybride. / This research-creation thesis is a reflection on the gesture-sound space. The author’s artistic research, based on six elements: body, sound, gesture, video, physical space, and technological space, was integrated in the conception of a motion capture system based on computer vision, the SICMAP (Système Interactif de Captation du Mouvement en Art Performatif – Interactive Motion Capture System For Performative Arts). This approach proposes a new performative hybrid practice. In the first part, the author situates her artistic practice supported by the three pillars of transdisciplinary research methodology: the levels of Reality and perception (the body and space as matter), the logic of the included middle (gesture-sound space) and the com- plexity (elements of the creative process). These transdisciplinary concepts are juxtaposed through the analysis of works bearing a common element to the author’s artistic practice, the body at the center of a sensorial universe. The author then puts forth elements relative to scenic practice arisen by this innovative artistic practice through the expressive body. The path taken by the performer-creator, leading to the conception of the SICMAP, is then explained through a reflection on the “dream instrument” and the realization of two preparatory gestural interfaces. Implying a new gestural in the context of a non-haptic interface that of the free-body gesture, the topology of the instrumental gesture is revisited in response to a new paradigm of the gesture-sound space. In reply to this research, the details of the SICMAP are then presented from the angle of the technological space and then applied to the gesture-sound space. The compositions realized during the development of SICMAP are then presented. These works are discussed from an artistic and poietic point of view through the founding elements of the author’s creative process. The conclusion summarises the objectives of this research-creation as well as the contributions of this new performative hybrid practice.

Diploma thesis " Information and library services for students of art schools with a focus on dramatic and musical art in the Czech Republic " aims to analyze the environment of libraries with a fund focused on music and theater, which serves students of art schools. This thesis also describes library and information services and the impact of copyright law to provide services in libraries with a fund containing score, audio and audiovisual media. The last section describes methodology of qualitative research and evaluates research by force field analyzing method and also analyzed findings and recommendations to address the identified facts.

What does it mean to take Animals, Plants, and Machines seriously when engaging in hybrid natures such as bioart, plant-art, taxidermy art and cyborgs in contemporary art?  Traditionally within art history the focus has been on human culture as the fundamental underpinning for cultural behaviour and productions, consequently rendering animal and plant histories invisible from the analysis of artworks. In this thesis I attend to the bodies of animals, plants, and machines put in the context of the zooësis (places/contact zones) of these bodies as biopolitical aesthetics (aesthetic bodies/objects) in contemporary art. Followingly, also attending to the histories of animals, plants, and machines in human societies and culture.  Situated within the interdisciplinary field of Human-Nonhuman-Animal Studies, or Anthrozoology, the aim in this thesis is to examine the meaning of animals, plants, and machines beyond representation, symbolism and mythology in contemporary art. In other words, this thesis analyses the representations of animal, plant, and cyborg bodies as actant aesthetic (organic and mechanical) objects, in art, literature, and media. Particular focus is payed to the hybrid natures founded in the taxidermy art of Berlinde De Bruyckere; in the bioart and transgenic plant-art of Špela Petrič; in the hybrid hyperrealist sculptures and bioethics of Patricia Piccinini; and in the hybrid artifacts, or “technoanimalism” of Tove Kjellmark.

A dança e a música dos Cocos e Sambas de Caboclo, do Samba rural e das Cirandas e cantigas de roda, por suas características próprias de ludicidade e de significação cultural, são o território das experiências estéticas e saberes dos jogos rapsódicos. Esta pesquisa propõe uma pedagogia das artes cênicas através de uma educação corporal e musical que integra tais saberes e experiências da dança popular e da música nos processos de criação e aprendizagem do atuante. Deste modo, os jogos rapsódicos são brincadeiras cantadas, dançadas, tocadas e contadas que colocam em movimento as vozes poéticas e corporeidades do narrador e do brincante das nossas celebrações e práticas culturais, para complementar as teorias e métodos da pedagogia das artes cênicas ensinados no Brasil. / Dance and music of Coco and Caboclo\'s Samba, from rural Samba and from Cirandas, Northeastern Brazilian circle dances, for their own playful features and their cultural meaning, are territory for aesthetic experiments, and knowledge for the rhapsodic games. This research proposes performimg art pedagogy by means of body and musical education, which integrates such knowledge and experience of popular dance and music into the actor\'s processes of learning and creation. Thus, rhapsodic games are sung, danced, played and told games, which prompt the poetic voices and corporeity of narrators and players from our celebrations and cultural practices, in order to complement the theories and methods of the performing art pedagogy taught in Brazil.