National Fund approves HKB projects
The Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) has approved funding of around CHF 4 million for six new projects at Bern University of the Arts (HKB).
Support is provided:
"Luigi Cherubini and the teaching of composition at the Paris Conservatoire as a comprehensive educational practice (ca. 1810-1840)". It examines the teaching of music theory and composition at the time and what might be of interest to us today (Claudio Bacciagaluppi)
"At the focus of developments: The Swiss Association of Musicians 1975-2017". How did the discourse on new music develop and what role did women, improvisation and television play? (Thomas Gartmann)
"Writing with voices - on the interaction of symbolic and technical compositional practices of the voice in contemporary music". The focus here is on media-aesthetic considerations, artistic experiments and the case study of Hans Wüthrich. (Michael Harenberg)
"Activating Fluxus": How can an ephemeral art form like Fluxus be revived - artistically, art historically and in terms of conservation? (Hanna B. Hölling)
"Aesthetics of the im/mobile: How Dance and Theater Performances Travel." How does theater and dance by and with people with disabilities travel and how is it disseminated? What potentials of circulation and mobility open up for the participation of people with disabilities in dance and theater? (Yvonne Schmidt)
"Collaborative aesthetics in global sound art": How do Swiss and South African artists work together live and in internet radios, what postcolonial challenges arise and what does this mean for cultural diplomacy? (Andi Schoon)
