Papers by Astrid von Rosen
Konsthistorisk tidskrift/Journal of Art History, 2021
Göteborgs universitet. Enheten för pedagogisk utveckling och interaktivt lärande., Jun 1, 2015
Transversal dances across time and space: Feminist strategies for a critical heritage studies
A pioneer in his field, Knut Ström (1887–1971) was a Swedish scenographer and director, who becam... more A pioneer in his field, Knut Ström (1887–1971) was a Swedish scenographer and director, who became the first professional scenographer in Sweden. He had an early international career in Düsseldorf during the 1910s but later worked in Göteborg for 41 years. He made visual revolution in Swedish scenography putting his name at stake to navigate between technology, critique and audience. There are thousands of visual statements left from Ström’s extensive production, such as scenographic sketches, costume sketches, scenographic models, photographs and posters. Earlier studies have not to any great extent taken an interest in visual material of this kind. This thesis presents a model for how to deal with such an extensive visual material in relation to the long period of time encompassed by the study. The aim is to expose, understand and explain Knut Ström’s scenography and visual world. Three questions – who was Knut Ström, what did he strive for and what did he do? – have helped in the...
Nordic Journal of Dance, 2017
The aim of this article is to explore embodied practices of memory in Strindberg’s drama A Dream ... more The aim of this article is to explore embodied practices of memory in Strindberg’s drama A Dream Play from a dance perspective. It is demonstrated that a profound exploration of this hitherto underexplored perspective can provide a fuller and more critically productive understanding of the drama. Even if in recent years international Strindberg studies has moved away from narrowly text-oriented and biographical approaches to his work, and toward multimedia, visual and multisensory aspects of it, dance and choreography are still rare topics within the field. In the article we first look at how Strindberg employed dance in the dramatic text for A Dream Play, and then expand on his dance contexts. Thirdly, we turn to a TV version of A Dream Play from 1980 to explore in particular how the waltz, an immensely popular dance form in Strindberg’s time, evokes and embodies cultural memories in the production. What is presented in the article draws on and further expands our work within the p...
Theatre and Performance Design
Konsthistorisk tidskrift/Journal of Art History, 2021
It has to be noted that the longstanding and complex concept of scenography pertains not only to ... more It has to be noted that the longstanding and complex concept of scenography pertains not only to theatre and performance studies, but also to design, architecture, technology and – last but not least – art history. For example, in Sweden where I live and work, scenography studies has been a marginalized sub-field of art history since the s. This special issue of Journal of Art History explores scenography’s current relevance to art history more broadly and looks into ways in which art history and scenography can interact and vice versa. The “Scenography and Art History” session that gave rise to this special issue was held at the NORDIK conference in Copenhagen, and was co-organized by me, and my colleague Viveka Kjellmer, both art historians at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden. While the individual contributions in this special issue emanate from the NORDIK session, I will here discuss the most recent developments within scenography theory, and propose approaches tha...
Performing Arts in Changing Societies
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Papers by Astrid von Rosen