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Cecilia Lagerström
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Performing ArtsAbout Cecilia Lagerström
Cecilia Lagerström is a director, researcher and professor of Performance practices at the Academy of Music and Drama, University of Gothenburg. Cecilia has a background in laboratory theatre and performance studies (PhD 2003) and she has been directing performance work in theatres and other venues since 1993. Since 2005 she has been active in the development of artistic research in the field of the theater in Sweden. Her practice is moving between theater (often movement-based), performance art and artistic research.
During 2013-16 Cecilia was conducting the project GångART together with actress and tight rope artist Helena Kågemark on walking in urban spaces where techniques and strategies from the theatre were applied on walking actions in the city of Gothenburg. The project was presented in various forums and formats in collaboration with museums, galleries, art spaces and urban locations. The book Konsten att gå: övningar i uppmärksamt gående (The Art of Walking: Exercises in Attentive Walking) was published by Gidlunds in 2019. During 2017-19 Cecilia was directing a series of performance projects that investigated complex dramaturgy in relation to movement-based and cross-disciplinary theater work and socially engaged issues (Suffering: On our perception of pain, Xenophobia and Nuckan: Epilogen with the artist collective Alkemisterna). Since 2020 Cecilia is engaged in the international collaboration The Kraken Skool of Finance, which examines the Nordic countries involvement in the transatlantic slave trade with the Caribbean, through performance, action and game-play. She is preparing a new project on the colonial sugar trade in Gothenburg studied through site-specific artistic investigations. Part of this is conducted within the research platform Hidden Sites, a collaboration between the Gothenburg City Museum and the Center for Critical Cultural Heritage Studies (GU): https://goteborgsstadsmuseum.se/besok-oss/lilla-anggarden/forskning-lilla-anggarden/hidden-sites- lilla-anggarden /
At the academy, Cecilia is head of subject for research and postgraduate education in Performance practices, she supervises and teaches doctoral students and master's students.
Cecilia is regularly commissioned as a guest teacher and workshop leader, but also as an opponent, committee member and adviser in research contexts in different countries. She is active in several international research networks and artist communities. Cecilia’s research interests include performance with a focus on site-creating and site-critical activities, physical performance training connected to directing and dramaturgy, decolonial aspects on place and body, performative writing and walking as art.
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(In)justice in the City. A performative walking tour through the city of
Gothenburg
Cecilia Lagerström
Nordic Journal on Law and Society: Special Issue: Exploiting Justice in a Transformative Swedish Society - 2020 -
The Kraken Skool of
Finance
Cecilia Lagerström
Alliances & Commonalities - 2020 -
The White Gold – Nordic Craving for
Sugar
Cecilia Lagerström
Late Autumn Art Show (grupputställning) på Galleri Konstepidemin - 2020 -
This story starts and ends with a bottle of rum. On sugar, the transatlantic slave trade and sending a message in a bottle to the city of
Gothenburg.
Cecilia Lagerström
Nordic Summer University. Tracing the Spirit. Artistic Research - Performing Heterotopia. - 2020 -
Nuckan -
epilogen
Cecilia Lagerström
Atalante - 2019 -
Konsten att gå. Övningar i uppmärksamt
gående
Cecilia Lagerström
2019 -
Xenophobia
Cecilia Lagerström
Folkteatern, Göteborg - 2018 -
Det där man brukar kalla
havet
Cecilia Lagerström
Konstepidemins dag (2/6), Konstepidemin i Göteborg. Även visad på Konsthallen Hamnmagasinet i Askersund (24-29/7, del av utställning). Fasader i Linnéstan i Göteborg (30/7, 3 visningar). - 2018 -
The Concrete Diversity of
Being
Cecilia Lagerström
International Platform of Performer Training (IPPT): Movement - 2018 -
Nuckan -
efterspel
Cecilia Lagerström
Scener & Samtal, Världskulturmuséet i Göteborg, 29 sep, 2018 - 2018 -
Artistic Research: Being There, Explorations into the
Local
Ami Skånberg Dahlstedt, Cecilia Lagerström
Nordicum-Mediterraneum - 2017 -
The Precision of
Meaning
Cecilia Lagerström
Transversality in Performance: Undiscovering processes from what the body knows. Doctoral Symposium, Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts, University of Gothenburg. - 2017 -
Suffering: On Our Perception of
Pain
Cecilia Lagerström
Premiär 2017-05-19 Premiere 2017-05-19 Atalante, Göteborg - 2017 -
PARSE Journal: Repetitions and
Reneges
Darla Crispin, Anders Hultqvist, Cecilia Lagerström
PARSE Journal - 2016 -
Performative Writing
Lab
Cecilia Lagerström
a-venue - 2016 -
Pares Journal Repetitions and Reneges:
Introduction
Darla Crispin, Anders Hultqvist, Cecilia Lagerström
PARSE Journal - 2016 -
Walking the every day as performative
event
Cecilia Lagerström
Circle7 Practicing Communities: Transformative societal strategies of Artistic research, Nordic Summer University - 2016 -
(O)Rättvisa i
staden
Cecilia Lagerström
Exploiting Justice: Processes, Performances and Politics - a multi/interdisciplinary symposium - 2016 -
Activating Imaginative Attention and Creating Observant Moments in the Everyday: Through the Art of
Walking
Cecilia Lagerström
Nordic Theatre Studies - 2015 -
Spies of the Everyday: A Walking
Exercise
Cecilia Lagerström
Nordiskt Sommaruniversitet: Krets 7 Crossing Contexts – Interventions through Artistic Research - 2015 -
Vardagsspioner - Gående som undersökande metod i skärningspunkten mellan teater och
stadslandskap
Cecilia Lagerström
Scenkonstbiennalen - 2015 -
Spies of the
Everyday
Cecilia Lagerström
Nordiskt Sommaruniversitet: Krets 7 Crossing Contexts – Interventions through Artistic Research - 2015 -
Giving voice to the words: writing in the
moment
Cecilia Lagerström
International Platform for Performer Training - 2015 -
In One
Step
Cecilia Lagerström
Ways to Wander - 2015 -
Silent Walk. Unpredictable Encounters in Urban
Space
Cecilia Lagerström
Artistic Research. Strategies for Embodiment - 2015 -
Sakta vi gå genom
stan
Cecilia Lagerström
Dance as Critical Heritage: Archives, Access, Action, symposium report 1: Beginnings - 2014 -
Silent Walk. Unpredictable Encounters in Urban
Space
Cecilia Lagerström
Samlingsutställningen The Walking Encyclopaedia på Air Space Gallery, Storbritannien. - 2014 -
GångART intar
Världskulturmuséet
Cecilia Lagerström, Helena Kågemark
Världskulturmuseet, Göteborg - 2014 -
GångART
Cecilia Lagerström, Helena Kågemark
Galleri Konstepidemin, Göteborg. - 2014 -
The act of
Listening
Cecilia Lagerström
International Platform for Performer Training - 2014 -
Writing from the theatre studio in the
moment
Cecilia Lagerström
Crossing Contexts: interventions through artistic research - 2014 -
Etudes on Silence: Researching the Performative and Performing
Research
Cecilia Lagerström
CARPA3: The Impact of Performance as Research - 2014 -
Etudes on Silence: Researching the Performative and Performing
Research
Cecilia Lagerström
CARPA 3 - The third Colloquium on Artistic Research in Performing Arts - 2013 -
Performing, writing,
screening
Cecilia Lagerström
Konferens, Nordiskt Sommaruniversitet: Krets 7 Crossing Contexts – Interventions through Artistic Research, Ulsteinvik, Norge - 2013 -
Silent Walk and the Ethical
Moment
Cecilia Lagerström
Konferens, Nordiskt Sommaruniversitet: Krets 7 Artistic Research – Strategies for Embodiment, Vejle, Danmark, augusti 2012. - 2012 -
Silent
Walk
Cecilia Lagerström
Performance utförd i centrala Göteborg under oktober 2011 - 2011 -
Silent
Walk
Cecilia Lagerström
Kortfilm, Göteborgs universitet 2011 - 2011 -
Etyder om
tystnad
Cecilia Lagerström
Schildknechtteatern, Högskolan för scen och musik, Göteborg, 13 december 2011 - 2011 -
Postdramatisk teater: ett projekt om
tystnad
Cecilia Lagerström
symposium: Minnesproduktion i berättande, konst och hantverk, Kulturarvsseminariet vid Göteborgs universitet, 17 maj 2011 - 2011 -
Postdramatic Theatre as Method and Practical Theory inside and outside of
Academia
Cecilia Lagerström
offentlig presentation vid Konstnärliga Seminariet ”Art As Research”, Konstnärliga fakulteten, Göteborg, 31 mars 2011. - 2011 -
The Director in the
Looking-glass
Cecilia Lagerström
Vintersymposium inom Artistic Research – Strategies for Embodiment, Nordic Summer University (NSU), Århus, Danmark 31 jan-2 feb 2011 - 2011 -
A History of Silence – to write your own history in the intersection among memory, reconstruction, fiction and
performance
Cecilia Lagerström
Konferens inom Artistic Research - Strategies for Embodiment, Nordic Summer University (NSU), Majvik, Finland 24-31 juli 2010 - 2010 -
Artistic Research. A Transition into No Man's
Land
Cecilia Lagerström
At the Intersection Between Art and Research. Practice-Based Research in the Performing Arts. - 2010 -
To be in-between: in search of the artistic
subject
Cecilia Lagerström, Jan Ling
ArtMonitor, 6/2009 s. 161 - 2009 -
Transformation of
Identity
Cecilia Lagerström, Helena Kågemark
Colloquium on Artistic Research in Performing Arts (CARPA), Theatre Academy, Helsinki, 19-21 November 2009. - 2009 -
Artistic Research - A Transition into No Mans
Land
Cecilia Lagerström
Konferens inom Practice-Based Research in the Performing Arts, Nordic Summer University (NSU), Tyrifjord, Norge, 20-26 juli 2009 - 2009 -
Artistic Research in the Performing Arts – In Search of a
Poetics
Cecilia Lagerström
Nordic Theatre Studies vol 20 2008: The Artist as Researcher. - 2008 -
I sökandet efter en poetik för scenkonstnärlig
forskning
Cecilia Lagerström
Sommarsymposium/konferens inom Practice-Based Research in the Performing Arts, Nordic Summer University (NSU), Vejle, Danmark, 20-27 juli 2008 - 2008 -
Det här är bara
jag
Cecilia Lagerström
ArtMonitor - 2007 -
Jungfrulekar
Cecilia Lagerström
2007 -
Konstnärens personliga tema som forskningsstudie - en forskningsmetodik växer
fram
Cecilia Lagerström
Konferens inom Practice-Based Research in the Performing Arts, Nordic Summer University (NSU), Vik, Sverige, juli 2007 - 2007 -
Tyst kunskap som
begrepp
Cecilia Lagerström
Tiden är som för handen. Om praktisk konsttillverkning, Göteborgs universitet - 2007 -
I sökandet efter personliga teman - att ringa in en
forskningstematik
Cecilia Lagerström
Alba - 2007 -
Högskolepedagogik eller teater som en pedagogisk
miljö
Cecilia Lagerström
Konstnärliga fakultetens konferens (GU) om pedagogik och forskning, Helsjön, Sverige, 15-17 november 2006. - 2006 -
Att skapa ett rum för
forskning
Cecilia Lagerström
Konferensen Sensous Knowledge, National Academy of the Arts, Bergen, Norge, 8-10 november 2006. - 2006 -
Att skapa ett rum för konstnärlig
forskning
Cecilia Lagerström
Re.Searching - om praksisbaseret forskning i Scenekunst, Nordscen - 2006 -
Det här är bara
jag
Cecilia Lagerström
2005 -
Brevdialog kring Konstnärlig
forskning
Cecilia Lagerström
Fakultetskonferens kring konstnärlig forskning, Konstnärliga fakulteten (GU), Jonsered, 25 augusti 2005. - 2005 -
Forskning inom
scenkonst
Cecilia Lagerström
Artistens webbtidning - 2005