ICARUS research seminar with Dr Astrid von Rosen - UGOT

She will talk about archival activism in relation to the research project Expansion and Diversity: Digitally mapping and exploring independent performance in Gothenburg 1965–2000 (granted 13 million SEK by the Swedish Research Council). The project is the first to take on the urgent challenge of accounting for diversity in late 20th century performance history in Sweden. Using data from for example digitized newspapers the project will combine historiographical and urban analysis with the capabilities of new information technologies to help include and make accessible a cultural heritage engaging many different people. Drawing on previous research on independent performance in Gothenburg in Sweden, the city will be used as a case study to investigate the unresolved historiographical problem of accounting for diversity within the expanded performance field. 

Dr Astrid von Rosen is Associate professor in Art History and Visual Studies, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, and a former dancer. Her research interests include activist approaches to scenography and dance archives in our digital age. 

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