Person
Doctoral Student
- Division of Art History and Visual Studies
- Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences
Contact information
E-mail ellen.sunesonkultur.luse
Phone +46 46 222 40 55
Mobile +46 70 639 17 18
Room C:457
Visiting address
Helgonavägen 3, Lund
Postal address
Box 192, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 30
PhD student in the Division of Art History and Visual Studies.
The objective of my PhD project “Portraying Ambivalence: The Art and Politics of Embarrassing Attachments,” is to dig deep into the complicated, thrilling, painful, embarrassing, and relentless terrain of institutionalization. By turning to the works of five artists, T.J. Dedeaux Norris (US), Laura Aguilar (US), Sands Murray-Wassink (NL), Jenny Grönvall (SE), and Xandra Ibarra (US), my dissertation aim to direct the attention toward a number of artworks that depict the sticky, abstruse, and blurry terrain in which artists tries, and recurrently fails, to discern their own agency, aesthetic preferences, or ideas from those prevalent on the field of vulnerability and susceptibility characterized as ‘the art world.’
I will visit the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, as a short-term scholar during Fall semester of 2018 and Spring semester of 2019.
Research
My profile in Lund University research portal
PhD student in the Division of Art History and Visual Studies.
The main theoretical fields that influence my research is performance theory, queerfeminism and art historiography. The objective of my PhD project ‘PERFORMING SHAME: affective resistance, aesthetic judgment and art histories' is to examine a number of performances (1995-2014) that critically enhances how principles of exclusion on the art scene and within art history can be unfolded through a conscious use of shame as an artistic medium.
Keywords: Art Historiography, Queer Theory, Shame, Performance Art, Aesthetic Judgment, Visual Culture, Feminist Theory
Articles (2)
- Hansson, K. & Suneson, E. (2018). Vulnerable Normality: Popular Neuroimaging and the Discursive Logic of the (Dis)able(d) Brain. Culture Unbound. Journal of Current Cultural Research, 10, 49-64. Linköping University Electronic Press.
- Suneson, E. & Rosenqvist, J. (2016). Konst och subjektskapande : neurodegenerativa nedsättningar och dialogbaserad konstpedagogik. Socialmedicinsk tidskrift, 93, 288-296. Socialmedicinsk tidskrifts styrelsen/nätverk.
Book chapters (5)
- Suneson, E. (2018). Kreupel-Cripple : Sökande efter en sörjbar natur. In Bengtsen, P., Liljefors, M. & Petersén, M. (Eds.) Lund Studies in Arts and Cultural Sciences, Bild och natur : Tio konstvetenskapliga betraktelser (pp. 107-123), 16. Lund Studies in Arts and Cultural Sciences.
- Bengtsen, P. & Suneson, E. (2017). Pathological creativity : How popular media connect neurological disease and creative practices. In Hansson, K. & Idvall, M. (Eds.) The Pandora Series, Interpreting the brain in society. Cultural reflections on neuroscientific practices (pp. 29-47), 25. Arkiv förlag.
- Suneson, E. (2016). André Talborn - A Collision of Gestures. Sandra Mujinga, Karl Patric Näsman, André Talborn, 81-83. Moderna Museet/Fredrik Roos Stiftelse.
- Suneson, E. (2016). Karl Patric Näsman - Grammar of Imitation. Sandra Mujinga, Karl Patric Näsman, André Talborn, 59-61. Moderna Museet/Fredrik Roos Stiftelse.
- Suneson, E. (2016). Sandra Mujinga - I Gave the World a Word. Sandra Mujinga, Karl Patrik Näsman, André Talborn, 37-39. Moderna Museet/Fredrik Roos Stiftelse.
Conference contributions (4)
- Suneson, E. (2019). Performing shame : alignments between aesthetic gestures, structures of feeling, and value judgments.
- Hansson, K. & Suneson, E. (2018). Vulnerable Normality: Popular Neuroimaging and the discursive logic of the (dis)able(d) brain.
- Suneson, E. (2018). Materiality, aesthetic gestures and emotional communities : on emotions as artistic medium.
- Suneson, E. (2015). Bilder, seende och normalitet : populärvetenskapens visuella representationer av hjärnan.
Miscellaneous (1)
Teaching
Other tasks and qualifications
Master's thesis, 'GESTURES OF FAILURE: Performances of otherness, masochism and unbecoming in Thea Djordjadze's exhibition our full'
Doctoral Student
- Division of Art History and Visual Studies
- Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences
Contact information
E-mail ellen.sunesonkultur.luse
Phone +46 46 222 40 55
Mobile +46 70 639 17 18
Room C:457
Visiting address
Helgonavägen 3, Lund
Postal address
Box 192, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 30