Teaching period: 17-28 March 2025
Location: Stockholm, Sweden
Teacher(s): Ida Lundén, Björn Larsson
ECTS: 3 ECTS
Number of available places for KUNO students: 4
Level: BA /MA
Course description
What is a sound?
The first, still existing, recorded sound was created by Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville in 1860 in Paris. Sixteen years earlier, in 1844, Nils Månsson Mandelgren founded the Söndags-ritskola för Handtverkare (Sunday Drawing School for Craftsmen) in Röda bodarna (the Red sheds). Since then, the Konstfack school has operated at eight different addresses before the school, its library and archives moved to Telefonplan in 2004.
Despite the fact that we have been able to record sound for 164 years, there are today very few sounding objects preserved in Konstfack's archives. Maybe there is still information about sound in the many works of art, pictures, objects, books, letters and other text documents that are in the archive?
The course investigates, on several different levels, what a sound object is, and can be based on questions about conservation, archiving and sustainability through seminars, lectures, site visits, and workshops. In addition to this, there is also individual and group-based practical, creative work.
More information about the course
Application deadline: 23 February 2025, 23:59
How to apply: Please send a free-form motivation letter along with your CV to ida.lunden@konstfack.se . Please state the course name “KUNO Hidden Sounds” in the email subject title.
Financial Support by KUNO:
Travel support between countries: 330 € (except 660 € to/from Iceland)
Subsistence: 250 € -1st week (5-7 days).
Eligibility:
- only BA and MA full-degree students from the KUNO network schools can participate;
-exchange students from other institutions, which do not belong to the KUNO network, studying at one of the KUNO network schools, CANNOT participate;
- full-degree students from the KUNO network schools, currently on exchange at another institution, CANNOT participate (neither with nor without the KUNO grant).
In case of any questions please do not hesitate to contact ida.lunden@konstfack.se or course administrator tomas.nilsson@konstfack.se
