Summer Course

Deadline: 8 April 2025

The course Individual Project in Moving Image is aimed at those who want a focused work period and a forum to deepen and discuss issues related to moving image within their own and other students’ artistry. Large parts of the course are based on the student’s independent work where the student focuses on their artistic process and works with their project. The course includes individual supervision where we discuss the content, technique and form of each student’s work in order to deepen the understanding of one’s methods of creating moving images and develop the work process. The course also includes moments when the works are discussed with the whole group and invited artists. These moments create a forum for in depth discussion and knowledge sharing. The aim is also to contribute to a dialogue about what the role of moving image can have as an art form in today’s hyper-mediated world and how the individual creative process relates to this.

Your project can be within different forms of moving image, such as multi-channel spatial installations, documentary film, animation, essay film, 360 video or other. Participation in the course requires that you have the technical skills needed to independently film, collect and edit video or film material for your project. The course does not include basic instruction in filming or editing, nor can we provide technical equipment other than editing computers.

COURSE CONTENT

Never before have there been so many moving images as there are today. They surround us through devices such as mobile phones, game consoles, screens, projectors, at home, in the workplace and in commercial and public environments. For many of us, technology is available to create, reproduce and disseminate moving images. 

But what images are being created? We are almost constantly fed with impressions from different sources, senders and for different purposes. What role can the moving images created by artists play in this audiovisual world? Do they disappear in the mass of images or can they, through their form, material, purpose and context, provide a counterpoint or reflection of today’s vast flow of moving images? Since the emergence of video art, artists have experimented with the medium’s potential to tell stories over time, combining colour, sound, image and text. They have approached film as a mass medium, questioning its commercial nature and its importance in documenting and representing reality and creating fantasy worlds.

In Individual Project in Moving Image, the student works on and develops a project of their own. Within the course, the student will receive both personal and group supervision to deepen, critically reflect on and develop their own artistic work in moving image. The conversations and guidance are based on the type of questions, mediums and methods that exist within the group and reflect on how these relate to the present.

COURSE STRUCTURE

At the centre of the course is the student’s own individually designed project and the work to achieve the goal that the student has set for the project. During the course we will have a number of counselling sessions and joint meetings to reflect, discuss and support the student in the artistic process.

The course starts in the beginning of June with two introduction days. During these days, the course participants will present themselves and their projects to the group. Then these days are followed up with individual supervising meetings with the teacher responsible for the course, Rut Karin Zettergren. During these meetings the students receive guidance to further develop their projects and project plans. After this, the students have a period where they work independently on their projects.

In July, the students have further sessions with individual guidance on their projects, this time with a guest teacher with competence within moving image. During the same month a joint seminar day is also organised where an invited artist presents their work in moving image.

During August, the students continue to work independently on their projects until the last common course week. During this week, the students present the work and receive feedback from the rest of the student group, the teacher responsible for the course and an invited guest artist.

Throughout the course period, students have access to the Royal Institute of Art’s video department and the editing computers at Mindepartementet on Skeppsholmen, open Monday to Friday between 09.00-15.30. Please note that the Royal Institute of Art’s other workshops, including Teknikförrådet (the technology lending centre), are closed during the summer.

Credits	18 hp
Level	First cycle course, not beginners
Language	Swedish and/or English
Entry Requirements	General entry requirements: General requirements for freestanding courses at a first cycle level. Specific entry requirements: 60 ECTS in fine arts or equivalent knowledge/experience
Selection	Selection is based on a proposed individual project plan of maximum 2 A4 pages. The project plan should describe the project idea, including artistic issues, processes, technological choices and theoretical aspects, and preferably a timetable and 3-4 work samples, out of which at least one should be within moving image.
Course Period	9 June–29 August 2024
Responsible teacher	Rut Karin Zettergren
Contact	rut-karin.zettergren@kkh.se (regarding course content) helena.falldin@kkh.se (regarding study administrative questions)

Deadline: 8 April 2025

Text as an Artistic Medium is aimed at students, artists and cultural practitioners (with at least 60 ECTS-credits from a higher education programme with an artistic basis) who want to develop their writing and find methods for using text and writing as artistic material. The course aims at individual artistic development through critical reflection on one’s own artistic practice and the working process for artistic text work.

Course content

Inspired by autofiction, queer perspectives and contemporary overlaps between poetry, art and literature, the course participants will be provided with a set of tools to apply in their own practices. The course prioritizes the participants own interests who are developed through joint writing exercises, the reading of each other’s and other people’s text and in-depth studies of artistic textual practices.

The course is based on the idea of text as an artistic medium and will observe and present content related to performative writing, the relationship between writer/sender and reader/recipient, and text as an artistic method in performance. The methods and content of the course draw inspiration from trans and queer feminist, intersectional, power critical and experimental theories.

Course structure

The course consists of three compulsory workshop modules, with lectures, discussions, shared reading and feedback on participants’ work. In addition, students will develop their own text projects and work independently. The course ends with presentations of the students’ work on Index, for example in the form of a fanzine.

Module # 1 To write

Place: Index
Time: 9–11 June

The course begins with a focus on the writing process, which is explored and developed through individual and collective approaches and methods.

Module # 2 To read

Place: Index
Time: 23, 25, 27 June

The second module of the course introduces relevant theory and reference texts.

After these two initial weeks, participants start their individual text project. During the month of July, all course participants are offered a one-to-one meeting (digitally or physically) with one of the three course leaders for feedback on form, content and work process. After this, the participants’ independent text work resumes until the last joint course week.

Module # 3 To distribute

Place: Index
Time: 18–20 August

The focus of this module is on the sharing or distribution of text-based works, with examples from different artistic expressions and concretely applied to the participants’ own materials. Participants will present the work they have done during the summer and will receive feedback from the rest of the student group, the course leaders and the Index team.

Throughout the course period, students will have access to writing space and technical equipment at Index – The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation. The art centre is located at Kungsbro Strand 19 and will be available to students four days a week. Please note that the other workshops at the Royal Institute of Art, including the technology lending centre, are closed during the summer.

At the centre of the course is the student’s own individually designed project and the work to achieve the goal that the student has set for the project. During the course we will have both tutorials and joint meetings to reflect, discuss and help the students in the artistic process.

Course leaders

• Isabella Tjäder, co-director at Index – The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation
• Andria Nyberg Forshage, writer, poet, curator
• Ruby Nilsson, artist, dramatist

Credits	18 hp
Level	First cycle course, not beginners
Language	Swedish and/or English
Entry Requirements	General entry requirements: General requirements for freestanding courses at a first cycle level. Specific entry requirements: 60 ECTS-credits from a higher education programme with an artistic basis
Selection	Selection is made based on 3-4 work samples out of which at least one is text based
Course Period	9 June–29 August 2024
Responsible teacher	Isabella Tjäder
Contact	isabella@indexfoundation.se (regarding course content), helena.falldin@kkh.se (study administrative questions)

Deadline: 15 April 2025

The requirement for the course is that one has passed the course Individual Work – Year 3 or Individual Work – Year 4 at the Royal Institute of Art.

The course is to be seen as a preparation for the course Degree Project in Fine Art at Master level and therefore preference is given to students in Year 4/MA1 at the Fine Art Programme at the Royal Institute of Art.  

The aim of the course is for students to develop, implement and present an independent artistic idea through a project plan for 12 weeks. The course also aims at individual artistic development through critical reflection on their own artistic practice and work process.

The course is structured around three individual tutoring sessions with Liv Strand, the  responsible teacher of the course, and independent work in between. The first session is intended for establishing the individual project plan and for discussing possible ways of working during the course. At the two following tutorials the work is followed up. In the course an individual presentation is included, where questions, purposes and conclusions of the artistic work is presented. Participation in the other students’ presentations and a joint visit to an exhibition are other parts of the course.

Students will be provided with a studio space, but please note that the workshops and Teknikförrådet (the technology lending centre) are not open during the summer.

Credits	18 hp
Level	Advanced level
Language	Swedish and/or English
Entry Requirements	Has passed the course Individual Work – Year 3 or Individual Work – Year 4 at the Royal Institute of Art.
Selection	Selection is based on a proposed  individual project plan and 3-4 work  samples. The course is seen as a preparatory course for the course Independent work in fine art at master level and therefore priority is given to students in Year 4/MA1 at the Royal Institute of Art’s programme in fine art.
Course Period	9 June–29 August 2024
Responsible teacher	Liv Strand
Contact	helena.falldin@kkh.se (regarding study administrative questions)

Deadline: 15 April.