Självständigt konstnärligt examensarbete / HDK-Valand

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Transmutation of the Human Body
(2024-06) Ivanov, Boris; University of Gothenburg/HDK-Valand - Academy of Art and Design; Göteborgs universitet/HDK-Valand - Högskolan för konst och design
The Human body exists in a state of a constant change, marked not only by the passage of time but also by each person’s character, faced challenges and choices. A plethora of experiences and emotions act as a motor for behavioural and physical changes which is the subject of the current project. Via various sculptures I exaggerate and transform “humans” into metal bodies with undefined features, conveying certain emotions, movement patterns with the main goal of exploring the boundaries of the Human Transmutations. In this humanitarian quest for defining a language for describing the morphed human body I rely on the use of various techniques centred around the use of metal. Starting from the Oxyacetylene welding, going through volume building and even exploring different surface textures I extended my visual artistic expression and understanding. Furthermore I firmly believe the metal metaphorically morphs, changes and ages as much as the human body, creating beautiful parallels and connections between the two, naturally becoming the central topic of my project.
Minnessaga, jag ska packa det vi minns
(2024-06) Rönning, Wania; University of Gothenburg/HDK-Valand - Academy of Art and Design; Göteborgs universitet/HDK-Valand - Högskolan för konst och design
This project explores childhood memories and nostalgia through textile sculptures and spatial installations. By collecting and processing memories from family and friends, I have created an interactive and scenographic world where the viewer can experience childhood memories. The work uses scale, form, and material to enhance the feeling of an exaggerated and surreal memory world. By combining visual elements with sound installations, the project examines how memories can be represented and conveyed in a manner that touches both individual and collective experiences. I detta projekt utforskas barndomsminnen och nostalgi genom textila skulpturer och rumsliga installationer. Genom att samla och bearbeta minnen från familj och vänner, har jag skapat en interaktiv och scenografisk värld där betraktaren kan uppleva barndomsminnen. Verket använder sig av skala, form och material för att förstärka känslan av en uppvriden och surrealistisk minnesvärld. Genom att kombinera visuella element med ljudinstallationer undersöker projektet hur minnen kan gestaltas och förmedlas på ett sätt som berör både individuella och kollektiva upplevelser.
moving matter
(2024-06) von Rohden, Christoph; University of Gothenburg/HDK-Valand - Academy of Art and Design; Göteborgs universitet/HDK-Valand - Högskolan för konst och design
Moving matter: that is what I do when I am in the workshop. I interact with physical matter, changing its shape, properties, and dimensions. But my body is moving matter as well. The steel I am working with makes me move, it makes me react to its qualities and behavior. The idea that the matter around us is shaped by me as well as it shapes me leads to a different relation with the world we live in. It makes me question my perception of the world of materials as something dead and static, separate from us as humans. I want to investigate this question in my work, in the process as well as in the objects. I will explore if I can perceive the matter I work with as sensitive, delicate, and alive. For that reason, I work with kinetic sculpture, moving matter.
Transitions
(2024-06) Gonta, Hrismantas; University of Gothenburg/HDK-Valand - Academy of Art and Design; Göteborgs universitet/HDK-Valand - Högskolan för konst och design
This project is dedicated to capturing and showing the essence of transition through the medium of sculpture. To achieve this I created an installation consisting of forged Bird-like sculptures. My intention is to show change, and not any specific event or narrative, I am leaving this project abstract and am inviting the audience to interpret and experience my installation from within, to become more aware of transitions happening around and within them.
Examensarbete /Materials in Tension/ - /A continuous exploration of the relationship between textile and wood/
(2023-09) Karl, Ekdahl; Karl, Ekdahl; University of Gothenburg/HDK-Valand - Academy of Art and Design; Göteborgs universitet/HDK-Valand - Högskolan för konst och design
My final year project playfully explores a method of joining fabric and wood using the keder cord in the context of furniture. This investigation is a continuation of the research that I carried out as part of a project in the previous semester and deals with the technical problems that arise in relation to tensioning. I propose a solution using threaded rods and explain the reasoning behind how this method of construction can be of benefit to the end user.
DO YOU KNOW THE REAL ME? A REFLECTION ON HUMAN BEHAVIOUR
(2022-06) Candido, Emerson João; University of Gothenburg/HDK-Valand - Academy of Art and Design; Göteborgs universitet/HDK-Valand - Högskolan för konst och design
This exam project is a development of an idea of a body of work that began a year ago when I was working on my previous project when I decided to rework it and use it as my major project for my final exam.It is a topic that I hope to expand on in the future because it is a big subject that is always changing with new methods and ideas for treating individuals with psychiatric symptoms. In this work I'm using self-reflection in my personal experience when I connect with people who gives me their own experience and their daily experience with the use of medicines, social interaction, where behaviour is shaped, called in society the "normal" or accepted behavior. With this work, I will analyze numerous aspects of what I term social behavior, beginning with my own experience as a result of growing up in a place where social contact is considerably more open. The work is now grouped into three interconnected behavioral themes.The first subject is about layers of protection, which are walls we construct to shield our inner core as a result of trauma, family dynamics pressure, society, religion, or cultural differences. The second is about societal pressure, and the third is about thoughts and using pharmaceuticals to affect one's mental conduct. My work has frequently been linked with sentiments; either my personal feelings about a certain subject, or feelings transferred via the experiences of others I know, but also feelings about the collective identity. Working figuratively with the purpose of triggering in the viewer something recognizably familiar, circumstances encountered, or even selfawareness about oneself.
Xylographic Furniture: A reintroduction of meaning through ornament.
(2022-11) Palmer, Leo; University of Gothenburg/HDK-Valand - Academy of Art and Design; Göteborgs universitet/HDK-Valand - Högskolan för konst och design
The objects we cherish most are the ones that tell a story. This project is an investigation into methods of achieving this quality. I have chosen to approach this by examining the role of ornament in furniture design. In the past, ornament was used to convey collective narratives. In today’s design landscape the idea of ornamentation is relegated to kitsch. By combining the practice of Xylography (woodcut printing) and furniture design I have modernised the idea of ornament and imbued my work with tactile narrative qualities, which I feel are often lacking from design today. The process of ornamentation developed during this project, is intended to be applied holistically. The pieces shown here are examples of this application and its development. If successful, the process should deliver a piece of furniture which reflects the theme of the print. The print itself relates to the context or function of the object, this further enhances the narrative qualities. The result is a unique piece that visually communicates a place or memory. This then elicits an emotional attachment to the furniture. This project results in a piece that expresses these qualities. I chose myself as the client and therefore the furniture is a response to my memories. The piece in question is the kredenc1, which relates to food preparation. I therefore started by creating a set of prints based around my own fond food memories. Once the printing process is complete, the woodblocks take on a new role - as ornaments on the kredenc. As I cook the fragmented images subtly remind me of all the good food and associated memories I’ve had in the past. At the core of this project is the need to make objects that spark joy and curiosity. Objects such as the kredenc, that through their ability to make an impression accompany us throughout our lives, their story evolving along with our own.
The adrift of our worlds. Even the most motionless things are in motion.
(2021-08) Galon, Jean-Baptiste; University of Gothenburg/HDK-Valand - Academy of Art and Design; Göteborgs universitet/HDK-Valand - Högskolan för konst och design
Whether things are alive or not, everything around us is in motion. This work highlights the link between the living and the non-living. It takes as its support the scientific theory of continental drift, represented in animal forms. Animals made of clay, iron ore, but also a lot of other elements found in the forest in Sweden or at home in France. One way to connect these animals to the non-living. Animals represented in the aestheticism of cave arts, in order to place human in this work, thanks to its ability to create myths. But also to show the evolution it has had since the time when they were painting in caves. This evolution does not happen at the same speed for all things, passing through geology, nature and human cultures. The continents are among the most stable bodies on which we build our lives and yet they are adrift. They move slowly, at the speed that our hair grows and have been for millions of years. (inter, 2017) During these millions of years life has evolved in different forms, adapting to a wide variety conditions. About 30,000 years ago human was doing cave art. Technology today is not the same as it was then. By comparison the movement of human cultures is intensely faster than geology
Vägen till hemlandet går genom magen - om konst, migration och kulinariskt arv
(2023) Nylén, Ninni; University of Gothenburg/HDK-Valand - Academy of Art and Design; Göteborgs universitet/HDK-Valand - Högskolan för konst och design
Forest Deleted, Förlåt Forever – an act of mourning through textile craft
(2023) Jervelind, Hannah; University of Gothenburg/HDK-Valand - Academy of Art and Design; Göteborgs universitet/HDK-Valand - Högskolan för konst och design
Forest Deleted, Förlåt Forever is an collaborative exam project that centers around the loss of biodiversity in the Swedish forests, and examines how mourning can serve as an artistic approach to deal with those losses. There is an ongoing, polarized debate about forest management in Sweden, depicting a conflict between green technology and economic development, and the protection and wellbeing of forest species. The challenges for humanity are real, but so are the ones for the non-humans. This project is trying to stay with the trouble as Donna Haraway puts it, embrace the friction of our time and address the existential layers of the debate. How are we (as in humans) to live with ourselves and the extinction of species we are causing, and how are we (as in all species) to live on together? By using textile craft as a method, we try to give form to humanity’s ambivalent rela tionship with the rest of the ecosystem. The loss of forest individuals is processed as an act of mourning, which allows us to artistically channel our own feelings and share them with other people. Through hand tufted sculptures and spatial settings we app roach the death of species as a farewell, an act of violence and a chain of production. In the tension between these perspectives our inner conflicts are brought up to the surface; our romantic notions of nature, anger towards the forest industry and guilt for being part of the exploit. Forest Deleted, Förlåt Forever seeks to raise awareness for the forest species, question the hierarchy between humans and non-humans, and create a sense of community for others in need of mourning.
Symbios Ett utforskande arbete i MultiWeave.
(2023) Westin, Elise; University of Gothenburg/HDK-Valand - Academy of Art and Design; Göteborgs universitet/HDK-Valand - Högskolan för konst och design
This exam work is an ongoing investigation of the three dimensional weaving technique MultiWeave with a focus on expressing a sense of movement. During this semester I have become an explorer seeking for answers in diffrent materials, colours and tools. The most important part is the process which has included developing my own tools and adapting them to fit the aim of this project. The result of this work consists of a collection of weaves, some integrated with the tools. The title Symbiosis is in this project referring to the relationship between weaves and tools and how they in many ways are dependent on each other. Exhibiting this work I am interested in the relation between work and viewer and aim to create a bond between those two.
RUMMET HÄR- RUMMET DÄR Jag tar vägen genom fönstret men rummet är inte där. Jag vänder mig tillbaka och där är det, eller nästan, liknande. Fönstret tar vägen genom mig, plötsligt är det här.
(2023) Nilsson, Moira; University of Gothenburg/HDK-Valand - Academy of Art and Design; Göteborgs universitet/HDK-Valand - Högskolan för konst och design
This project investigates window reflections. The phenomena where the space in front of and behind a window pane visually seems to become one. I am fascinated by how two spaces with totally different character through this phenomena may meet and coexist. To explore and interpret a perishable space in transformation, a space in-between reality and the surreal, are my driving force for this project. I question what happens in the window reflections and how to capture it in material form. With a base in textiles, several different techniques and materials are used to let the visual become physical. The window reflections becomes an installation experienced as a room to walk into and interact with.
MONSTROUS INVENTION Science produce facts, art produces meaning, my brain gets lost in meandering thoughts.
(2023) Kuisma Karlsson, Chrisse; Kuisma Karlsson, Chrisse; University of Gothenburg/HDK-Valand - Academy of Art and Design; Göteborgs universitet/HDK-Valand - Högskolan för konst och design
Jorden befolkas av människor, människor med olika erfarenheter och världsåskådning. Olika temperament och varierande drivkrafter. Det vi har gemensamt är att vi alla föds, lever och en dag dör, och att vi under vår livstid kommer att göra val. Men till hur stor del är en människa fri att välja, vad är beroende av redan förutbestämda ärftliga orsaker, uppväxtmiljö och omgivningens faktorer. Hur mycket av det vi som människor ännu inte vet kommer i framtiden kunna förklaras vetenskapligt. Och äger vetenskapen förmågan att ersätta religionens eller mystikens frågeställningar. Vi människor är komplexa varelser som styrs genom kemiska reaktioner och elektriska impulser, våra hormonnivåer påverkar vårt mående och även vår personlighet. Hur ska människans fria vilja och förmåga att fatta väl avvägda beslut på egen hand förstås om vi redan från födseln är mer eller mindre predeterminerade att drabbas av ängslighet, depression eller psykisk ohälsa. Vår observerbara omvärld går att beskriva men när vi kommer ner på tillräckligt liten nivå tar kvantfysikens lagar över den klassiska fysikens förklaringsmodeller. I förlängningen hamnar vi då i Everetts multiversum teori, en teori som betyder att vid varje händelse på kvantnivå uppstår ett nytt universum. Multiversum teorin innebär att vårt universum endast är ett möjligt bland ett oändligt antal andra, i ett universum existerar du och i ett annat inte. Varje möjlighet av dig existerar i något universum förutom i de universum där du inte existerar alls. English abstract The earth is populated by people, people with different experiences and world views. Different temperaments and varying driving forces. What we have in common is that we are all born, supposed to live our life’s. and one day die, and that in our lifetime we will have to make choices. But to what extent is a person free to choose, which is dependent on already predetermined hereditary causes, environment of upbringing and environmental factors. How much of what we as humans do not yet know will be able to be scientifically explained in the future. And does science have the ability to replace the questions of religion or mysticism. We humans are complex creatures that are governed by chemical reactions and electrical impulses, our hormone levels affect our mood and our personality. How is man's free will and ability to make well-balanced decisions on his own to be 4 understood if we are more or less predetermined from birth to suffer from anxiety, depression or mental illness. Our observable external world can be described, but when we get down to a sufficiently small level, the laws of quantum physics take over the explanatory models of classical physics. By extension, we then end up in Everett's multiverse theory, a theory which means that with every event at the quantum level, a new universe arises. The multiverse theory means that our universe is only one possible among an infinite number of others, in one universe you exist and in another you don't. Every possibility of you exists in some universe except in those universes where you don't exist at all.
Desanctifying the ancient Norse runes with modern art
(2023) Martin, Augustsson; University of Gothenburg/HDK-Valand - Academy of Art and Design; Göteborgs universitet/HDK-Valand - Högskolan för konst och design
This bachelor thesis delves into the process of bringing the ancient Norse runes into a modern art context and using them as an integral component in the making of a series of metal art objects. This was done as part of a re-appropriation of the runes and to make them more inclusive and interesting to people who have never been interested in them before. By research, sketches and and practical tests, this thesis shows the growth and continued process of the project. It details the incorporation of kitsch and graffiti art into the project, explains why metal is so heavily featured in it and teases at what might be created in the future.
TO DWELL AMONG TREES AND VAESEN -Explorations in unknown forests
(2023) Frida, Svensson; University of Gothenburg/HDK-Valand - Academy of Art and Design; Göteborgs universitet/HDK-Valand - Högskolan för konst och design
The subject of my Bachelor thesis is the forest. My relation to the forest, or humanity´s relation to nature. My focus is the tension between the forest as welcoming, warm, safe, something that we long for, that we use for recreation and contemplation, to relax. And the forest as frightening, dark, unknown, full of secrets. A place where you can get lost. With the starting point in my personal experience of the forest I examine this tension, the concept of getting lost and my/our longing for the unknown.
Remember life
(2022) Lundström, Petter; University of Gothenburg/HDK-Valand - Academy of Art and Design; Göteborgs universitet/HDK-Valand - Högskolan för konst och design
In this paper it is explained the process and result of making grave markers with new materials, designs and considerations. The meaning bearing foundation of these are bronze casts of objects, everyday items, that relate to the one that has passed. The idea of these objects is my belief that these objects can function as a way to remember, relate and connect to the one that has passed. Other aspects of relevance in the process and result are the wish that the grave marker should instil a sense of place, allow for ritual or contemplation, as well as care for needs like sitting and light that illuminates important features of the grave marker, such as text or the bronze cast object. The materials used in the construction is terrazzo-concrete, weathering steel and bronze. The produced grave markers are one of black terrazzo, weathering steel and bronze – where the steel forms a partially internally lit pillar of geometrical blocks, where text and water cut ornaments glow and a glass cylinder through a terrazzo block on the top illuminates a bronze cast object. The terrazzo block is shaped to hold water, intended both to add to the illumination of the object, as well as to give a meditative focus and allow for a ritual of pouring water to fill it when visiting the grave. The other main grave marker is one that allows for sitting and is constructed of white terrazzo and bronze, with a placeholder steel construction that could be substituted with any blocks of similar construction to the ones in the base of the first grave marker, or terrazzo blocks or a combination of both. In addition to this, a few bronze cast objects are presented as they might appear on or by a previously existing grave.
Art Logo Desire Commerce - Konsten och kommersens samspel i det konstnärliga rummet
(2021-11-11) Ketter, Clara; University of Gothenburg/HDK-Valand - Academy of Art and Design; Göteborgs universitet/HDK-Valand - Högskolan för konst och design
Kommande essä är en undersökande kartläggning av konsten och kommersens samspel, med ett inkluderat fokus på egna reflektioner. Målet är att försöka uppnå någon form av uppgörelse mellan individen, mig själv och vårt ofrivilliga, men bejakade, kollektiv med makten av pengar. För mig har detta samspel mellan konst och kommers tagit en påtaglig roll i mitt eget konstnärskap, och är ett av de koncept som jag har kommit att fokusera på. Min egna frustration och fascination av konstens och kommersens samspel intresserar mig. Dels är det insikten utav kommersialiseringens närvaro i konstvärlden, oundviklig i takt med behovet av att mata kapitalet i ett kapitalistisk samhälle, men också hur vi kan använda denna kommersialiserade konstvärld för att förstå den roll pengar tar i vår vardag. Tanken av att vi mer eller mindre är köpta, våra mest vardagliga verktyg som vi normativt sett inte kan fungera utan i vår västerländska livsstil, tar rollen som en ständig påminnelse på grund av dess påtagliga närvaro i vardagen. Konsumtion är inget ämne som är nytt att behandla, men uttrycket har tvingats att ändras och tillägnas mer och mer av vår uppmärksamhet. Vi lever i denna verklighet. I detta undersökande utav konstens tolkning och reaktion på marknadsekonomin, kommersialismen, och konsumentkulturen försöker jag inte bevisa detta samspel. Det jag istället försöker göra är att få en bredare förståelse för hur konstnärer har tacklat ämnet kommers, lyft den politiska agenda som ligger bakom, som effekt av tanken att konst och kommers kanske alltid är politisk. Denna tanke är en bidragande faktor till min fascination över ämnet, och min vilja att förstå. Metoden jag använder för att uppnå syftet av essän är att djupdyka i konstnärer och deras verk som på olika sätt behandlat ämnet av konst och kommers. Jag vill närma mig att se vad dessa kreatörer bidrar med till vår uppfattning utav vårt intag och vår vardagliga exponering för bland annat masskonsumtion och marknadsföringspolitik. Min frustration baserar sig antagligen mycket på min egen oförmåga att rymma från något som skaver i mig. Som konstnär behöver jag oundvikligen inta en plats vid det här bordet. Jag undrar hur jag påverkas och formas utav en konstvärld mer och mer påverkad av ekonomiska, sociala, kommersiella och mediala faktorer.
Sinnesrörelser - genom objekt, material och fotografi
(2021-11-19) Hedberg, Sian; University of Gothenburg/HDK-Valand - Academy of Art and Design; Göteborgs universitet/HDK-Valand - Högskolan för konst och design
Jeg ser inn i kameraet og ut over verden
(2021-11-19) Rusdal, Markus; University of Gothenburg/HDK-Valand - Academy of Art and Design; Göteborgs universitet/HDK-Valand - Högskolan för konst och design
JAG ÖNSKAR DU KUNDE SE MIG
(2022-06-09) Berntsson, Tobias; University of Gothenburg/HDK-Valand - Academy of Art and Design; Göteborgs universitet/HDK-Valand - Högskolan för konst och design
Throughout my studies I’ve sought to expand my personal communication in art. Letting my private stories and struggles shape my work and through them learning to understand myself better. For my examproject I delved into my fears about abandonment, control, being forgotten and losing oneself to panic. To visualize these situations I created two puppets, Fredrik and Adam, to personify my emotional states and act in scenes depicting such events in my life. These handcrafted puppets are a part of me and yet their own person, with all three of us sharing a familial bond.

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