Person

Mats Arvidson (b. 1973)

PhD, Associate Professor, Senior Lecturer (Lund, Brisbane, Gothenburg, Lund)

I am a senior lecturer in intermedial studies – a subject that I have been active in more or less since its inception around 2002–2003. This is a multifaceted field that today focuses on the modalities of the body in the encounter with an increasingly complex world consisting of constructed media boundaries.

I defended my thesis in musicology 2007, but have never worked within this discipline. From 2026 I have started a research project funded by the Erik Philip-Sörensens Foundation with the title The transboundary body. The starting point is the French philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy's book L'Intrus (The Intruder, 2024), which has also been adapted into a film (Claire Denis). A central theme that I work on is the concept intermedial adoption. I am also in the final stages of a book titled The Deceptive Cadence as a Metaphor for Life: Listening with Care through a Crisis Situation.

• An Imaginary Musical Road Movie
• Crisis and Culture
• CV
• I think. And I'm still not sure that I exist.