PhD-Gruppe – Aktivitäten

Aktivitäten der PhD-Gruppe

  • Meetings

    Three 3-days meetings and one retreat week

    • Three-days meetings
      One full day presentation and discussion with one invited artist about his/her (artistic)  PhD or artistic research practice, one full day discussion of two projects of group members together with the guest from the first day, one day discussion of good examples of PhD and/or of important texts about artistic research. The three guests in 2020:
      • Guest #1: Dr. Marie Louise Crawley, Assistant Professor (Doctorate in Dance Studies, Coventry University, UK)
      • Guest #2: Cancelled because of the Coronavirus pandemic (replaced by an internal zoom-meeting of the group members)
      • Guest #3: Sarah Burger, PhD (PhD at ZHdK, Switzerland / Kunstuniversität Linz, Austria)
    • Retreat week (Kurhaus Bergün, Bergün/Switzerland)
      Morning activities: Two Focus Groups‘ meetings: Language related practices in PhDs / Artistic Research as Institutional Critique
      Afternoon activities: Individual PhD presentations of all members and group critique using the DAS Theatre Feedback Method (for an introduction to this method watch the video “A Film About Feedback”)

    Doctorate Summer School at ZHdK

    1 to 3 days participation, individually

    Doctoral Colloquiums at Kunstunversität Linz (offered twice per year)

    2 days participation once a year, individually

    Teaching

    Whole PhD group: Heading the 5-days Colloquium: “Artistic Research – in Practice and in Theory” (MFA, Zurich University of the Arts; spring semester 2020)
    Current PhD group members have taught individually at: Academy of Performing Arts, Ludwigsburg/Germany; Merz Academy, Stuttgart/Germany; Helsinki University/Finland; Uniarts Helsinki/Finland; Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Lucerne/Switzerland; Valais School of Art (édhéa), Sierre/Switzerland; ZHdK/Department of Cultural Analysis and Department of Music, Zurich/Switzerland.

    Peer reviewed activities

    → Detailed list

    PhD submissions/examinations

    • Petra Köhle/Nicolas Vermot-Petit-Outhenin (examination, defended 9 October 2020)
    • Kai Ziegner (submitted 23 October 2020)
    • Julia Weber (submission planned, December 2020)

    PhD grants / Post-PhD grants

    • Julia Weber: Project Grant from Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF)
    • Marina Belobrovja, PhD (PhD programme alumnae): Grant from Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF)
    • Nicole de Brabandere, PhD (PhD programme alumnae): Early Post-doc Mobility Grant, Swiss National Science Foundation

    Funded research projects

    • Petra Köhle, PhD / Nicolas Vermot, PhD: Co-heads project Mémoire institutionelle: esthéthique politiques du don au Palais des Nations, funded by HES-SO, Haute école spécialisée de Suisse occidentale. Duration: 2020–2022
    • Petra Köhle, PhD / Nicolas Vermot: Co-heads project Pfyn-Art, une approche indisciplinaire du paysage, financed by EHEAD, Ecole de design et Haute école d’Art du Valais/Switzerland. Duration: 2020–2022
    • Nicolas Vermot: Project leader  project Une écologie de subsistance, funded by EDHEA, Ecole de design et Haute école d’Art du Valais/Switzerland. Duration: 2020–2022
    • Nicolas Vermot: Co-researcher project Situations sensibles, funded by EHEAD, Ecole de design et Haute école d’Art du Valais/Switzerland. Duration: 2018–2020

    Planning

    Planning and organizing the group meetings and the retreat week of 2021.

    New appointments

    • Sarah Burger, PhD (alumna, 2017): Lecturer, BA Scenery / Department of Performing Arts and Film, ZHdK, Zurich/Switzerland + Lecturer, University of Art and Design, Berne / Institute Y, Berne/Switzerland
    • Nicolas Vermot, PhD (alumnus, 2020) : Co-head Master of Arts in Public Spheres, Ecole de design et Haute école d’Art du Valais, EHEAD, Sierre/Switzerland

    Employments

    • Current Candidates:
      • Eirini Sourgiadaki: Research associate, Department of Cultural Analysis; Assistant, PhD programme, Department of Fine Arts (ZHdK/Switzerland)
      • Laura von Niederhäusern: Research fellow to the Head of Department Fine Arts (ZHdK/Switzerland); Lecturer, Ecole de design et Haute école d’Art du Valais, EHEAD (Sierre/Switzerland)
      • Julia Weber: Research associate, Institute for Contemporary Art Research (ZHdK/Switzerland)
      • All members of the group: Lecturers, MFA at ZHdK/Switzerland
    • Alumni / Alumnae:
      • Marina Belobrovaja, PhD: Docent, Lucerne School of Art and Design / Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (Lucerne/Switzerland)
      • Nicole de Brabandere, PhD: Post-doc fellow/visiting researcher (2018–2020), McGill University / Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies (IGSF) and Moving Image Research Lab (Montreal/Canada)
      • Petra Koehle, PhD: Co-head Master of Arts in Public Spheres, Ecole de design et Haute école d’Art du Valais, EHEAD (Sierre/Switzerland)

  • Meetings

    One retreat week (in the Swiss Alps)  + three 3-days meetings.

    • Three-days Meetings:
      One full day presentation and discussion with one invited artist about his/her (artistic)  PhD or artistic research practice, one full day discussion of two projects of group members together with the guest from the first day, one day discussion of good examples of PhD and of important texts about artistic research.
      The three guests in 2019:
      • Johan Haarberg (Executive Officer Society for Artistic Research, SAR)
      • Lena Séraphin (PhD from Aalto University, Helsinki)
      • Jonathan Allen (PhD from Kingston University, London)
    • Retreat week (Kurhaus Bergün, Bergün/Switzerland):
      Two Focus Groups: Artistic Research as Institutional Critique and (Meta-Reflection) Practicing Reflection
      Individual PhD presentations of all members, with respect to the groups’ foci

    Doctorate Summer School at ZHdK

    1 to 3 days participation, individually.

    Teaching

    Heading: 5-day Colloquium: Artistic Research – in Practice and in Theory (MFA, Zurich University of the Arts; spring semester 2019)

    Additional activities

    Individual presenting of peer reviewed contributions on international conferences and workshops
    Exhibitions and other publications

    PhD Examinations

    • Petra Köhle/Nicolas Vermot-Petit (planned)
    • Kai Ziegner (planned)
    • PhD-Grants / Post-PhD-Grants:
    • Julia Weber: Project Grant from Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF)
    • Marina Belobrovja (PhD programme alumnae): Grant from Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF)
    • Nicole de Brabandere (PhD programme alumnae): Early Post-doc Mobility Grant, Swiss National Science Foundation
    • Sarah Burger /PhD programme alumnae): Pro Helvetia, Werkbeitrag

    Planning

    Planning and organizing the activities for 2020.

    New Appointments
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    Employments

    • Current Candidates:
      • Petra Koehle: Head MFA programme, University of the Arts, ECAV (Sierre/Switzerland)
      • Eirini Sourgidaki: Research associate, Department of Cultural Analysis (ZHdK/Switzerland)
      • Nicolas Vermot: Lecturer and member of the teaching staff, MFA programme, University of the Arts, ECAV (Sierre/Switzerland)
      • Laura von Niederhäusern: Research fellow for the Head of Department Art & Media  (ZHdK/Switzerland)
      • Julia Weber: Research associate, Institute for Contemporary Art Research (ZHdK/Switzerland)
      • All members of the group: Lecturers, MFA at ZHdK/Switzerland
    • Alumnae:
      • Marina Belobrovaja PhD: Docent, Lucerne School of Art and Design at Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Lucerne/Switzerland
      • Nicole de Brabandere PhD: Post-doc researcher, Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory at University of Chicago/United States

  • Meetings

    Three 3-days meetings: one full day presentation and discussion with one invited artist about his/her (artistic)  PhD or artistic research practice, one full day discussion of two projects of group members together with the guest from the first day, one day discussion of good examples of PhD and of important texts about artistic research.
    The three guests in 2018:
    – Ana Hoffner (PhD in Practice from Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna)
    – Nina Sellars (PhD from Monash University, Melbourne)
    – Petra Bauer (PhD from Konstfack, Stockholm)

    Doctorate Summer School at ZHdK

    1 to 3 days participation

    Teaching

    Heading: 5-day Colloquium: Artistic Research – in Practice and in Theory (MFA, Zurich University of the Arts; spring semester 2018)

    Additional activities

    Individual presenting of peer reviewed contributions on international conferences and workshops
    Exhibitions and other publications

    PhD Examinations

    Marina Belobrovaja

    PhD-Grants

    • Marina Belobrovaja: Project Grant from Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF)
    • Laetitia Morais: Grant from Kunstuniversität Linz / Academy of Fine Arts Vienna for completing her PhD.
    • Julia Weber: Project Grant from Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF)
    • Nicole de Brabandere (PhD programme alumnae): Early Post-doc Mobility Grant, Swiss National Science Foundation

    Planning

    Planning for the group activitives 2017.

    Prizes

    • Nicole De Brabandere, awarded with the „Award of Excellence 2018 – Staatspreis für beste Dissertationen“ des Österreichischen Bundesministeriums für Bildung, Wissenschaft und  Forschung for her PhD “The Matter of Habit. Experimenting with the Affects of Emergent Media, Material and Movement Practices” (PhD completed 2017).
    • Sasha Huber,  awarded with the Finnish „States Prize for Arts 2018“,  awarded by the governmental Arts Promotion Centre Finland.

    New Appointments

    Petra Köhle, appointed Head programme Master Fine Arts, Ecole cantonal d’art du Valais (ECAV)

  • Planning
    Planning and organizing the activities for 2017.

    Meetings
    Three 3-days meetings, including per meeting: one full day presentation and discussion with one invited artist about his/her (artistic) PhD, one full day discussion of two projects of group members together with the guest from the first day, one day discussion about different topics.
    Guests have been:

    • Victoria Gray (PhD at Chelsea College of Art and Design, University of the Arts, London, UK)
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    Teaching
    Heading: 5-day Colloquium: Artistic Research – in Practice and in Theory (MFA, Zurich University of the Arts; spring semester 2017)

    Additional activities
    Individual presenting of peer reviewed contributions on international conferences and workshop
    Exhibitions and other publications

    PhD-Grants
    Marina Belobrovaja. Project Grant from Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF)
    Nicole de Brabandere: Early-Post-Doc-Mobility Grant from Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF)

  • PlanningPlanning and organizing the activities for 2016.

    Meetings
    Three 3-days meetings, including per meeting: one full day presentation and discussion with one invited artist about his/her (artistic)  PhD, one full day discussion of two projects of group members together with the guest from the first day, one day discussion about different topics. Guests have been:

    • Steve van den Bosch (PhD at Sint Lucas School of Art, Antwerp)
    • Elske Rosenfeld (PhD at Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna)
    • Christina Zimmermann (PhD at Bauhaus Universität, Weimar)

    Teaching
    Co-organizing and co-heading: 5-day Colloquium: Artistic Research – in Practice and in Theory (MFA, Zurich University of the Arts; spring semester 2016)

    Additional activities
    Individual presenting of peer reviewed contributions on international conferences and workshops
    Exhibitions and other publications

    PhD-Grants
    Nicole de Brabandere. Swiss Project Grant from Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF)
    Marina Belobrovaja. Project Grant from Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF)
    Nicole de Brabandere: Early-Post-Doc-Mobility Grant from Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF)

    Appointments
    Marina Belobrovaja, appointed lecturer (Dozentin) at Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Art / Lucerne School of Art and Design, Lucerne
    Laura von Niederhäusern, appointed research fellow (künstlerisch-wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin) , Head of Departement Art & Media, ZHdK

  • Planning
    Planning and organizing the activities for 2015

    Meetings
    5 bi-monthly 2-days meetings

    Working week
    Re:Search as desire (Porto, Portugal; Jul 25-29, 2015)

    Teaching
    Co-organizing and co-heading: Colloquium Artistic Research – Practice + Theory concretely (MFA, Zurich University of the Arts; Spring semester 2015)

    Collaborations
    With CCCS (critical curatorial cross-cultural cybermedia studies) / University of Arts and Design Geneva: Two days seminar Methods and techniques of (artistic) research, formats of the results, epistemology of artistic research (Geneva; Sep 26+27, 2015)

    Additional activities
    Individual presenting of peer reviewed contributions on international conferences and workshops
    Exhibitions and other publications

    PhD-Grants
    Nicole de Brabandere. From Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF)

  • Planning
    Planning and organizing the activities for 2014

    Meetings
    10 2-days meetings
    First and second half of the year: Comprehensive presentations and discussions of the individual PhD project
    Second half of the year: Discussion with guests:
    Topic: Methods in sciences, humanities and the arts with relation to their history and to
    the transformation into different fields and disciplines
    Guests: Prof. Dr. Bernd Roeck, University of Zurich / Dr. Jens Badura, ZHdK
    Topic: Discussion of best examples of Artistic Research and Artistic PhD
    Guests: Uriel Orlow, London / Prof. Hannes Rickli, ZHdK

    Additional Activities
    Individual presenting of peer reviewed contributions on international conferences and workshops
    Exhibitions and other publications

  • Planning
    Planning and organizing the activities for 2013

    Meetings

    • Each member of the group is the host of one of the meetings (length of meeting: min. of 4 hours).
    • The host is free to choose the content and format by him-/herself. Pluriversity of both is desirable and expected.
    • There is but one pre-given principle: the meeting has to be focused on / related to the overall theme of the group: artistic research / artistic Ph.D.
    • All members take notes of each meeting and fix, from their individual point of view, the three strongest points and the three weaknesses of each meeting’s content and format. They keep their notes and fixed strongest points and weaknesses to themselves.
    • The last meeting (in December) is reserved for discussing the experiences, the pros and cons of the formats and contents of each meeting. Out of that discussion, conclusions will be drawn for the leitmotif, contents and formats for 2014.
    • Besides, additional activities beyond the monthly meetings are possible and welcomed. The members of the group are free to join these activities whereas the participation for the monthly meetings is compulsory.

    Teaching
    Input Artistic Research Zurich-Linz model and Artistic PhD example (by Nicolas Vermot and Giaco Schiesser). Given at the seminar Introduction into Artistic Research (Prof.  Christoph Schenker; Autumn Semester, Dec 17, 2013).

    Collaborations
    With Aalto University Helsinki / School of Arts, Design and Architecture / Department of Media: Exchange about Themes – Experiences – Problems of Artistic PhD at Aalto University and ZHdK / Kunstuniversität Linz. Helsinki/Finland, Oct 14 – 15, 2013.
    With CCCS (critical curatorial cross-cultural cybermedia studies) / University of Arts and Design Geneva: Invitation to present the  Zurich PhD Program at CCCS. Geneva, Dec 10, 2013 (presented by Nicolas Vermot and Giaco Schiesser)

    Additional Activities
    Individual presenting of peer reviewed contributions on international conferences and workshops
    Exhibitions and other publications

  • Planning
    Planning and organizing the activities for 2012

    Meetings
    10 2-days meetings (monthly, with the exception of July and August).
    Content:

    • Close reading and discussion of  some core texts about Artistic Research
    • Drawing conclusions for the own research practice

    Preparations
    Required exposés

    Additional activities
    Exhibitions and other publications