Until 16 September 2012 there is an exhibition called Making knowledge at Gustavsbergs konsthall, featuring Frida Hållander from Konstfack, Mårten Medbo from HDK School of Design and Crafts, Kjell Rylander and Caroline Slotte from Bergen Academy of Art and Design. The intention in the exhibition is to highlight and discuss crafts as an area of resarch. The four participating artists are all PhD candidates or equivalent in the area of crafts, and in their research projects they are all contributing to the current and rapid development of crafts. The exhibited works pose questions on materiality and doing, on tradition, class and power, ranging from everyday to existential issues. Bringing together their projects aims at creating a platform for a future discussion on artistic research, and a possiblity to investigate what and who contemporary practice-based research implies, makes and involves.

Lund university is organizing a workshop, All that was left,  January  26-27 that moves between medical history and art history in order to explore all that was left after the daily work on Tornbladsinstitutet, an embryologic institution founded in Lund 1931. The purpose of the workshop is to develop a greater understanding of the collection, and enable further research on the material, which consists of a large collection where fetuses from many animals, including humans, can be compared with each other and over time.
Frida Hållander, artist and PhD candidate will together with artist Linda Shamma Östrand highlight some reflections on the collection. During the presentation – “Our inexorable quest for original shapes” – they will talk about Tornbladinstitiuets material on the basis of their own background and the artistic practice that we conduct. More information and schedule can be downloaded here. (photo Malin E Nilsson)

Friday September 16 there will be a 25 % seminar on Frida Hållander’s PhDproject Vernacular Craft at Konstfack between 10-12. The seminar will be held with invited participants only, but Frida Hållander will hold an open lecture reflecting her work up to this date later this autumn!

PhD candidate Frida Hållander is participating in the session “crafting knowledge” coordinated by Anneli Palmsköld and Johanna Rosenqvist during the ACSIS + ACS fourth biannual conference on cultural research under the heading ”Current issues in European Cultural studies”. The other participants in the session are Andreas Nobel, Otto Von Busch, Viveca Berggren Torells, Eva Knuts and David Goldsmith.

Tuesday May 24, 18 pm, Frida Hållander will speak about her PhD project under the heading Crafted Vernacular – Practice-based research through Craft at Konsthantverkarna in Stockholm. She will speak about strategies for a research project through craft, also discussing questions like: what is not articulated in the field of contemporary craft? Which practices are influential? Whose bodies matter?

December 16 (between 8.45-14) and December 17 between 9-14) there’s an exhibition with six artistic research and development project at Konstfack.  The six projects are concerned with fashion and aging(Helena Hertov Nilsson/Therese Dahlqvist), white ants/black ants (Erik Rosshagen), vernacular craft ( by PhD candidate Frida Hållander), the industrial designer as intuitive synthesist (Ulrika Bohné), the history of exhibition/the exhibition as history (Kim West) and “keep searching! what do you see?”( Anna Odlinge). Other participants will be Lars Holmberg from Uppsala universitet, Petra Bauer, artist and PhD candidate at Konstfack, Johanna Rosenquist from  Lunds university, Andreas Nobel, interior designer, member of the design collective Ugly Cute and PhD candidate atKonstfack, Jadwiga Krupinska, professor in theory of form at KTH-School of Architecture and Trond Lundemo from the University in Stockholm. The presentations will be held in Swedish and a detailed schedule can be found here.

As part of the Arkitekturmuseets new assignment to be a place for craft and design and in relation to the exhibition Contemporary arts and crafts exhibition 2010: there will be a seminar on the Craft discourse and it’s various platforms Wednesday November 10, 13-18 pm. There will be a discussion between: Cilla Robach, Sara Isaksson From, Pontus Linvall, Peppe Bergström, Maj Sandell, Agneta Linton, Frida Hållander, Kerstin Wickman and with Magnus Ericson as moderator. In Swedish.