Kajsa G Eriksson
About Kajsa G Eriksson
Summary
Kajsa G. Eriksson is an Artist and Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Visual Arts at the Art Teachers Program, HDK, Gothenburg University, Sweden. Eriksson holds a PhD in Design and runs the independent artistic research studio Vague Research Studios. She teaches visual and studio art, contemporary art theory and history, and the relation between scientific and artistic research methods. Artist and Ph.D. Kajsa G. Eriksson specializes in visual art, studio art and art education. Mainly engaging with posthuman theories and methodologies, she also connects to phenomenology, post-structural, feminist and queer theories as well as practice-based research related to art practice. Her teaching expertise is in the area of student learning and engagement, knowledge-in-action and sustainability as an integrated part of teaching and research. Eriksson's dissertation “Concrete Fashion: Dress, Art, And Engagement in Public Space” (2010) is an example of artistic research that explores the border between design and contemporary art, in order to place situated bodily practices within larger field of exploration and ideology, and to discover new formats. Eriksson conducts and develops experimental art practices, artistic research, and arts education programs. Collaboration, interdisciplinary studies, and the transformative force of art in everyday life is the platform that her teaching, artistic practice, and research has evolved from.
Research projects REGN (RAIN) is a climate change art project which imagines life as if rain were never-ending. The project was initiated in 2011 by Kajsa G. Eriksson and artist, researcher and teacher Fredric Gunve. The methods of REGN (RAIN) are experimental and emerge from Kajsa G. Eriksson’s art-based dissertation. The project is relational in nature and integrates performance, performativity, writing, and object-making with the entanglement of physical and imaginative worlds. The method draws together the real and the speculative in order to make and mark the instability of both. Blurring the borders between fiction and reality also fosters the emergence of unexpected experiences and connectivity. Instability, both imaginative and felt, and the emergence of experiences, affects, and empathies are key to the transformative power of the method. Vague Research Studio is an artistic research studio specializing in material as technology/culture/education which was initiated together with PhD Lena TH Berglin, Associate Prof. in Design and Material Practices at the Swedish School of Textiles. VRS practice is socially engaged and emerges out of everyday life where collective methods, feministic and trans-disciplinary approaches are used in the fields of visual art, design, pedagogy and material technologies. VRS vaguing methodology is described as “performing explorations”, (exploring situations in without dividing the knower from the known), and “vague technology” (enabling a fluid relation between people and technology) (Eriksson, 2010) (Berglin, 2008).
Teaching Eriksson teaches in studio art and design focusing on artistic processes, participatory art and art & design in public space. She also teaches art theory and art history with specialization in contemporary and feminist art, and artistic practices. In the art teachers program her main teaching and supervision is in art-based research, specializing in the relations and connections between theory, methodologies and artistic methods. Currently Eriksson´s teaching trains the Art and Art Education students to place their work in relational processes to everyday life, and to a social world both within and outside campus.
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Experimental Material-Digital Art Education by Vague Research
Studios
Lena TH Berglin, Kajsa G. Eriksson
Critical Digital Making in Art Education - 2020-01-01 -
“Vague Borders and Infinite Sensibilities of Land, Body, and
Water”
Kajsa G. Eriksson, Caitlin Foley, Misha Rabinovich, Daniel Barney, Maya Weeks, Carol Padberg, Hannah Whitaker, Brian Seaman
"Imaginative Futures: Arts-based research as boundary event" A 2-day Symposium at the School of Art, Arizona State University. See invitation letter (pdf) - 2019-01-01 -
Improvising the Vague Outdoor Event in Art and Technology Education &
Research
Kajsa G. Eriksson, Lena Berglin
Synnyt/Origins. Finnish Studies in Art - 2019-01-01 -
A Curious Choreography: for Pigments on Paper, Forty People Paired and
Aalto University
Campus
Kajsa G. Eriksson, Fredric Gunve, Carol Padberg
Synnyt/Origins. Finnish Studies in Art - 2019-01-01 -
The Outdoors as a Common Site of Experience and Collaboration in Art and Technology Education – A
Workshop
Model
Kajsa G. Eriksson, Lena Berglin
Synnyt/Origins. Finnish Studies in Art - 2019-01-01 -
RAIN - A DIY
GUIDE
Kajsa G. Eriksson, Fredric Gunve
Art-Based Education: An Ethics and Politics of Relation - 2018-01-01 -
Art-based Education: An Ethics and Politics of
Relation
Tarja Karlsson Häikiö, Kajsa G. Eriksson
- 2018-01-01 -
A Curious Choreography: for Pigments on Paper, Forty People Paired and Aalto University
Campus.
Kajsa G. Eriksson, Fredric Gunve, Carol Padberg
InSEA CONGRESS 2018 Finland, Scientific and Social Interventions in Art Education - 2018-01-01 -
The outdoor as a common site of experience and collaboration in Art and Technology Education - A workshop
model
Kajsa G. Eriksson, Lena Berglin
InSEA CONGRESS 2018 Finland, Scientific and Social Interventions in Art Education - 2018-01-01 -
REGN RAIN SADE – TRANSLATION IN
PROGRESS
Kajsa G. Eriksson, Fredric Gunve
11 November – 30 November 2017, Art Galleries: Hämärä, Kajo, Lyhty, Kilo, Kopio, Lovisa & Seinä, University of Lapland, Rovaniemi; Finland International collective group exhibition Relate North – Art and Design for Education and Sustainability 2017 - 2017-01-01 -
EduClimateArt project RAIN/REGN/SADE:
Eco-transformation through ritual of reading
aloud
Kajsa G. Eriksson, Fredric Gunve
Relate North 2017, Art and Design for Education and Sustainability, 6th annual symposium & exhibition - 2017-01-01 -
det går
över
Kajsa G. Eriksson
Tombola parksalong 2011/ Utställningar och projekt 2000-2017 Tombola - 2017-01-01 -
Climate Change Art project REGN/RAIN and a Pedagogy of Trust: Troubling the concept of Identity in Art
Education
Kajsa G. Eriksson
InSEA 2017 - 35th World Congress of the International Society of Education Through Art - 2017-01-01 -
Vague Technology – a collective listening/sounding/making workshop
example
Kajsa G. Eriksson, Lena TH Berglin
the 2017 National Art Education Association National Convention - 2017-01-01 -
REGN (RAIN) – A Performative Exploration Towards an Ecology and Pedagogy of
Trust
Kajsa G. Eriksson, Fredric Gunve
The Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA), Hartford CT, USA 2016, at the session Climate Change Pedagogy: Literature, Arts, Interdisciplinary, Action (ASLE Session). - 2016-01-01 -
Vague Space as Potential: A Fluid Design for Urban Public
Space
Kajsa G. Eriksson, Lena TH Berglin
Dialectics of Space and Place across Virtual and Corporeal Topographies - 2016-01-01 -
REGN i Karlstad; del i Water Research Area Karlstad
2016
Fredric Gunve, Kajsa G. Eriksson
2 juli-20 augusti Kv. Almen och offentliga rummet Water Research Area Karlstad, representerad i Karlstads stadsbibliotek - 2016-01-01 -
A name made from air and
stone
Kajsa G. Eriksson
Let´s Mobilize: What is feminist pedagogy? - 2016-01-01 -
REGN
Fredric Gunve, Kajsa G. Eriksson
Galleri Box, Kastellgatan 10, Göteborg, Sweden - 2015-01-01 -
RAIN - the never ending evolution of
natureculture
Fredric Gunve, Kajsa G. Eriksson
PARSE Conference, Nov 4-6, 2015 The 1st PARSE Biennial Research Conference on TIME - 2015-01-01 -
Att handleda hoptvinnat examensarbete med dubbla examinationskriterier vid Lärarprogrammet med inriktning bild och visuell kultur på HDK,
GU
Tarja Karlsson Häikiö, Kajsa G. Eriksson
HKG 2015 - Högskolepedagogisk konferens, Göteborg, PIL - Göteborgs universitet - 2015-01-01 -
BLANKOUT by Vague Research
Studios
Kajsa G. Eriksson
Published in the book Imago Mundi, Archive of Visions and Actions Contemporary Art from Sweden Exhibition: MAP OF THE NEW ART, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice Italy, September 1 - November 1, 2015 Part of the Luciano Benetton Collection - 2015-01-01 -
Kraftwerks mjuka, lena, erotiska kroppar och feministiskt
motstånd
Kajsa G. Eriksson
Influenser, referenser och plagiat. Om Kraftwerks estetik = Influences, References and Imitations. On the aesthetics of Kraftwerk - 2015-01-01 -
Ingreppsfestival
Henric Benesch, Emma Corkhill, Kajsa G. Eriksson, Fredric Gunve, Karl Palmås, Mats Rosengren, Erik Sandelin, Staffan Schmidt, Catharina Thörn, Magnus Torstensson, Peter Ullmark, Otto Von Busch, Terje Östling
Kanaltorgsgatan, Heurlins plats, Stenpiren, Verkstadsgatan (Göteborg) - 2010-01-01 -
Concrete Fashion: Dress, Art, and Engagement in Public
Space
Kajsa G. Eriksson
- 2009-01-01 -
Sea harbour people - Mimesis, Camouflage,
Masquerade
Kajsa G. Eriksson
ArtMonitor - 2008-01-01