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<b>The world is changing. The changes are rapid and dramatic. Reality is to a higher extent than before volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous. Recognizing and understanding complexity is crucial. </b> <br/><br/>Performing Arts leadership is well prepared for these changes. In fact, performing arts could well be in the forefront of how to navigate in these challenges. In this book Lotta Lekvall explores performing arts leadership in the challenges facing society as well as the role of art and culture in the 21st Century. <br/><br/><b>Lotta Lekvall</b> is Executive Director at Folkteatern in Göteborg and former CEO of Nätverkstan Kulur. She has long experience of working in the art and cultural sector both nationally and internationally, on cultural policy, cultural entrepreneurship, and on cultural and creative businesses.

Den bild vi har i Sverige idag av den internationella konstnärsskara som samlades i den franska byn Grez-sur-Loing under 1870- och 80-talen, präglas i hög grad av sin tids nationalistiska kulturklimat, men också av den konstruktion av platsen och fenomenet konstnärskoloni som både konstnärer och konsthistoriker skapat i efterhand. Vissa fakta i historieskrivningen har etablerats som sanningar. Berättelsen om den skandinaviska Grezkolonin har återberättats så många gånger, att det nu existerar en tydlig bild av det glada kolonilivet och dess melankoliska, gråtonade måleri, som sägs härröra från den fuktmättade luften i flodlandskapet. Grezkolonin besöktes flitigt av svenska konstnärer som Carl och Karin Larsson, Karl Nordström, Nils Kreuger, Georg Pauli och Julia Beck, men även av konstnärer från USA, England, Skottland och Irland. Konstvetaren Alexandra Herlitz har undersökt hur bilden av kolonin framställts i svensk konsthistorisk litteratur och jämfört denna med bildmaterialet, utsagor i opublicerade källor och den bild av Grezkolonin som engelskspråkig litteratur beskrivit där utgångspunkten varit andra nationer än den svenska. Alexandra Herlitz forskning visar att den bild som skrivits fram i Sverige innehåller aspekter som är signifikativa för hur de hela tiden återkommit och betonats. Till dessa hör en etablerad föreställning om att de skandinaviska och engelskspråkiga konstnärer som vistades samtidigt i Grez endast hade ytliga kontakter med varandra. Likheter i den internationella konstnärsskarans ofta gråstämda verk, som till exempel motiven, har förklarats med gemensamma franska förebilder och inte minst byns lokala vädervillkor. Många hittills opublicerade källor vittnar om kontakter mellan de olika ländernas konstnärer. Herlitz menar att dessa sociala och artistiska kontakter senare delvis förnekades av konstnärerna, för om det inte fanns någon social kontakt alls, skulle inget konstnärligt inflytande ha varit möjligt något som kan ha varit av viss betydelse för dessa konstnärers senare karriärer. En av hennes slutsatser är att det finns aspekter i de internationella verken från Grez som snarare kan ses som ett resultat av den sociala konstnärsgemenskapen än ur gemensamma förebilder och en etablerad platsmyt om det gråa Grez.

How Little is Enough? Testimony of a Pilgrim by Steinunn Knúts-Önnudóttir is a key component of the artistic PhD thesis How Little is Enough? Sustainable Methods of Performance for Transformative Encounters. The book contains an essay and manuscripts of the four performances of the artistic research; No Show, Island, Strings and Pleased to Meet You. The essay is a testimony of the artist's journey and gives an insight into the artistic research process, while providing an overview of the findings. In the essay Steinunn Knúts-Önnudóttir explores how the performing arts can respond to the current environmental and social challenges, by investigating the affordances of relation specific performances through methods such as performative encounters and porous and embracing dramaturgy through the prism of existential sustainability. How Little is Enough? Testimony of a Pilgrim was presented as part of Dr Steinunn Knúts Önnudóttir's PhD dissertation at Malmö Theatre Academy in September 2024. Steinunn Knúts-Önnudóttir, born in Malmö in 1965, is a performance maker and artistic researcher based in Iceland. She has worked as a director, writer, dramaturge, and performer in Iceland, the UK, Scandinavia, and beyond, with her work playing in Reykjavik, Malmö, New York, Vienna, online, on television, and radio. Steinunn was a dramaturge at the City Theatre in Reykjavik and a lecturer and dean at the Iceland University of the Arts. In her work, she focuses on existentially sustainable, relation-specific performances and performative encounters. Steinunn is also a mother of three, a theologian, life coach, and pottery maker.

Behind the Scenes gives you an inside look at today's design industry and the challenges it faces, the commercial undercurrents that shape and define it and a glimpse of those in power. The book includes subjects such as design media and PR and the relationship between the two, payment methods in the design industry, the escalating speed of the new and the effect it has on the products, as well as the importance of pricing. Behind the Scenes is a book debating the issues around design that rarely is spoken about.

Norway Calling, the book of contemporary Norwegian design, is a kind of answer to the question of why Norwegian design is arousing such pleasure and curiosity today the world over. It is the first book to mirror the exciting northern trend, introducing some of the principal figures and some of their most important projects - an excellent opportunity for design-lovers to acquaint themselves with the vigorous development of Norwegian design after such titans as Sverre Fehn, Grete Prytz Kittelsen and Arne Korsmo. After years of silence there proved to be a new, living world of Norwegian design. Now widley known designers and architects such as Snøhetta, Daniel Rybakken, Norway Says and Arne & Carlos bare witness to this forceful trend.

The growing flow of digital culture depends on the hidden protocols of its underlying systems. To explore how interfacing shapes spectatorship online, this pioneering study pinpoints experiences of flow through the friction of photo-based glitch art by Phillip Stearns, Rosa Menkman, and Evan Meaney. Homing in on the viewer, these three cross-disciplinary case studies present and analyze material that is new to the art-historical context. In particular, they focus on how glitched artworks in online environments make viewers aware of their own activity within the flow, causing a break from the increasingly naturalized integration of system and individual. When a glitch invites the viewer to try out different positions in relation to the system, a tactical spectatorship unfolds.

Ljusbacken was one of the leading communes in Sweden in the 1970s. It represented much of what came to be associated with the "hippie movement" and later the "prog movement". Much of the most extreme phenomena in the movement resided here. Healing, primal scream therapy, yoga, meditation, drugs, sexual liberation were essentially important ingredients. In Ljusbacken, artist Joanna Lombard visits the mythical place of her childhood home, searching its surfaces for an answer to an unknown question. The book is the artist's journey of facing the memories and extracted stories that were generated during her childhood in the commune. Using contemporary photographs of the places where the stories unfolded a tension is created between the stories' time and space.