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Biography [eng]

Guest Professor in History and Theory of Craft at Konstfack (Stockholm, Sweden), besides her tenure as Senior Lecturer in Art History and Visual Studies at Linnaeus University (Växjö/Kalmar, Sweden). She wrote her thesis An Aesthetics of Sexual Difference? On Art and Artistry in Swedish Handicraft of the 1920s a n d 1990s (2007) at Lund University, and has since continued to investigate the field of handicraft in relation to a wider field of cultural production with craft anf performativity as a special oints of interest. Together with Christina Zetterlund and Charlotte Hyltén-Cavallius she co-edited and contributed to the most important overview of craft in Sweden, Konsthantverk i Sverige del 1 (2015). Together with Anneli Palmsköld she also contributed to the anthologyGender and Heritage (2018) with the chapter “Handicrafting Gender: Craft, Performativity and Cultural Heritage”

Biography [swe]

Johanna Rosenqvist disputerade 2007 på en avhandling som undersöker konstnärsrollen i den svenska hemslöjdsrörelsen. Hon har forskat om visuella representationer av att göra exempelvis konsthantverk och design i projektet Konsthantverkande och performativitet. Hon är gästprofessor i konsthantverkets teori- och historia vid Konstfack jämte sitt lektorat i konst- och bildvetenskap vid Linnéuniversitetet.

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Palmsköld, A., Gustavsson, K. & Rosenqvist, J. (2023). Preserving the past to serve the future. Paper presented at BICCS 2023 - Biennial International Conference for the Craft Sciences.. FORMakademisk, 16(4)
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2023 (English)In: FORMakademisk, ISSN 1890-9515, E-ISSN 1890-9515, Vol. 16, no 4Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Lilli Zickerman (1858–1949) was an entrepreneur who took part in organising the Swedish handicraft associations in the late 19th century. She was also a pioneer in the archives and active in the feminine sphere of textile handicraft. From 1914–1931 she conducted a huge inventory called Swedish Folk Textile Art that consists of more than 24,000 photographs and descriptions of vernacular textiles and manuscripts for a planned series of books and films. By mapping textile handicrafts, she aimed to preserve traditional textile craft techniques to inspire their continued production. Her intention was to create an archive for the inspiration and education of future textile artists. The inventory has had effects that are still apparent today; this paper illuminates the ways in which Zickerman’s ideas about textile handicrafts have contributed to the continuation of Swedish cultural heritage and how it has become an authorised heritage discourse that continues to guide the scholars and practitioners involved in the history of textiles and their production. Here, we will present the first article within an ongoing project on Swedish Folk Textile Art and how it was conducted. We will contextualise the ideas and knowledge that it contains by focusing on Zickerman’s intention to preserve the past to serve the future. From a critical craft perspective, we will discuss geographical mapping as a method for investigating the invent­tory; the inclusion and exclusion of geographical areas, textile techniques, materials and people; the ideas and the knowledge that are expressed in the inventory; and the networks that it created. By doing so, we aim to highlight the connections between people, between people and materials, and between history and the current day.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
OsloMet - Storbyuniversitetet, 2023
Keywords
Critical craft studies, craft archive, cultural historical inventories, craft knowledge, craft history
National Category
Other Humanities
Research subject
Humanities
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-126795 (URN)10.7577/formakademisk.5414 (DOI)2-s2.0-85172449208 (Scopus ID)
Conference
BICCS 2023 - Biennial International Conference for the Craft Sciences.
Available from: 2024-01-16 Created: 2024-01-16 Last updated: 2024-02-06Bibliographically approved
Rosenqvist, J. & Fagerström, L. (2022). The History of Mainstreaming Gender in Art History in Sweden. In: Britt-Inger Johansson & Ludwig Qvarnström (Ed.), Swedish art historiography: Institutionalization, identity, and practice (pp. 212-220). Lund: Nordic Academic Press
Open this publication in new window or tab >>The History of Mainstreaming Gender in Art History in Sweden
2022 (English)In: Swedish art historiography: Institutionalization, identity, and practice / [ed] Britt-Inger Johansson & Ludwig Qvarnström, Lund: Nordic Academic Press, 2022, p. 212-220Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

Starting in the late 1990s, the Swedish government began tasking Swedish universities to integrate, and thus mainstream, gender perspective in all higher education. This project culminated in 2016. According to the Ministry of Education and Research, this strategy was  “to achieve the gender equality policy objectives.” This approach has contributed to changes in academic programs and curricula, including the scope of courses and their accompanying course literature. This chapter describes how the strategy has affected art history and visual studies (hereafter referred to as “art history”). 

Pioneering scholars first introduced critical gender perspectives (then called “women’s studies”) into higher education in Sweden (and thus, art history) as part of the Women’s Liberation grassroots movement in the mid-1970s. Forty years before such critical perspectives became an administrative mandate, this was a trailblazing and groundbreaking stance. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, this approach formed the basis for an affirmative action plan, a method typically associated with tactics utilized to rectify discrimination in employment and education, and can be described as a kind of positive discrimination. Here, the term is used to discuss the effects of including literature with a gender perspective in art history curricula at Swedish universities. The results of inclusion are, in our experience, forceful. 

 

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Lund: Nordic Academic Press, 2022
Keywords
gender art history, genus konsthistoria konsthistoriografi feminism
National Category
Art History
Research subject
Humanities, Art science
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-119750 (URN)9789189361195 (ISBN)
Available from: 2023-03-15 Created: 2023-03-15 Last updated: 2023-07-14Bibliographically approved
Rosenqvist, J. (2021). Bodies Making Souvenirs: Performing Authenticity. In: Souvenirs in Motion: Cultural and Historical Perspectives on the Souvenir as a Research Object: 22 - 23 April 2021 - ONLINE. Paper presented at Souvenirs in Motion: Cultural and Historical Perspectives on the Souvenir as a Research Object, 22-23 April 2021. University of Lapland
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Bodies Making Souvenirs: Performing Authenticity
2021 (English)In: Souvenirs in Motion: Cultural and Historical Perspectives on the Souvenir as a Research Object: 22 - 23 April 2021 - ONLINE, University of Lapland , 2021Conference paper, Oral presentation only (Refereed)
Abstract [sv]

In this paper I argue that the bodies of artists and makers are actually performing authenticity. The bodies in the making of craft and the visual representation of this making of craft , are key figures in showing how and where craft is being made, literary and metaphorically speaking. Throughout the history that is being on display in for example design- and crafts magazines, visual representations of making are linking objects to a certain time and place.  

My understanding of performing or rather performativity, is informed by the theorists such as Judith Butler and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick for whom the relationship between saying and doing has become the centre of attention (Sedgwick 1993; Butler 1997; 1999). Although not focusing on the actual making of craft, Butler's theories on gender concerned with ‘doing’ rather than ‘being’ are useful in looking at craft from a critical perspective on what is being done. In introducing her concept of gender performativity, Butler proposes that gender is to be understood neither as an entity nor as a set of free floating attributes, but instead, as continuously being done. In her seminal text Gender Trouble from 1990 she writes ‘gender is itself a kind of becoming or activity to be conceived /…/ as an incessant and repeated action of some sort’ (Butler 1999: 112). 

The attributes ascribed to gender are performative, Butler says. So if repeated action makes up the patterns, that are thought of as feminine or masculine, and in turn are making gender, maybe repetition is key in performing authenticity in the making of Craft Made in Dalarna or Småland?   

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
University of Lapland, 2021
Keywords
craft, gender, performativity, representation, konsthantverk, genus, performativitet, representation
National Category
Art History
Research subject
Humanities, Art science
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-108335 (URN)
Conference
Souvenirs in Motion: Cultural and Historical Perspectives on the Souvenir as a Research Object, 22-23 April 2021
Available from: 2021-12-02 Created: 2021-12-02 Last updated: 2022-01-13Bibliographically approved
Rosenqvist, J. (2021). Okategoriserat: om genus och representation. In: Stofflighetens politikk. Om kjønnsrepresentasjon, tekstil og materialbasert kunst i norske samlinger: Konferens i Bergen och på zoom 1-2 juni 2021. Paper presented at Stofflighetens politikk. Om kjønnsrepresentasjon, tekstil og materialbasert kunst i norske samlinger. Konferens i Bergen och på zoom 1-2 juni 2021. University of Bergen
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Okategoriserat: om genus och representation
2021 (Swedish)In: Stofflighetens politikk. Om kjønnsrepresentasjon, tekstil og materialbasert kunst i norske samlinger: Konferens i Bergen och på zoom 1-2 juni 2021, University of Bergen, 2021Conference paper, Oral presentation only (Other academic)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
University of Bergen, 2021
National Category
Art History
Research subject
Humanities, Art science
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-108518 (URN)
Conference
Stofflighetens politikk. Om kjønnsrepresentasjon, tekstil og materialbasert kunst i norske samlinger. Konferens i Bergen och på zoom 1-2 juni 2021
Note

Keynote lecture

Available from: 2021-12-09 Created: 2021-12-09 Last updated: 2022-01-13Bibliographically approved
Rosenqvist, J. (2019). Dialogbaserad konstpedagogisk metod i praktiken. Paper presented at Bästa biennalens konstbiennal 2019. Bästa biennalens tidning, 2019, 18-19
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Dialogbaserad konstpedagogisk metod i praktiken
2019 (Swedish)In: Bästa biennalens tidning, Vol. 2019, p. 18-19Article in journal (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.)) Published
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Ystad: Ystads konstmuseum, 2019
Keywords
konstpedagogik
National Category
Art History
Research subject
Humanities, Art science
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-90336 (URN)
Conference
Bästa biennalens konstbiennal 2019
Available from: 2019-11-29 Created: 2019-11-29 Last updated: 2020-01-13Bibliographically approved
Rosenqvist, J. & Fagerström, L. (2019). ”Mainstreaming Gender as a Subversive and/or Affirmative action”. In: Hundra år av svensk konsthistoria – och sen?: 13-14 juni 2019, Humanistiska teatern, Campus Engelska parken, Uppsala, 2019. Paper presented at Hundra år av svensk konsthistoria – och sen? 13-14 juni 2019, Humanistiska teatern, Campus Engelska parken, Uppsala, 2019.
Open this publication in new window or tab >>”Mainstreaming Gender as a Subversive and/or Affirmative action”
2019 (English)In: Hundra år av svensk konsthistoria – och sen?: 13-14 juni 2019, Humanistiska teatern, Campus Engelska parken, Uppsala, 2019, 2019Conference paper, Oral presentation with published abstract (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

Since gender mainstreaming was launched by the end of the 20th century to promote gender equality in policy making as well as universities and has since found its way into program plans as well as evaluations documents. Gender mainstreaming introduced a gender equality perspective and was introduced as a successor to implementation of affirmative or positive action in political decision-making. But has it challenged the gender distribution in a profound way? Has it changed the way Art History is being taught or has it rather been used as an alibi for neutralizing positive action?

Keywords
genus, konsthistoriografi, kanon
National Category
Art History
Research subject
Humanities, Art science
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-90335 (URN)
Conference
Hundra år av svensk konsthistoria – och sen? 13-14 juni 2019, Humanistiska teatern, Campus Engelska parken, Uppsala, 2019
Note

Ej belagd 200313

Available from: 2019-11-29 Created: 2019-11-29 Last updated: 2021-03-02Bibliographically approved
Rosenqvist, J. (2018). Calling a visitor by her name: The potential of a subjective art educational situation. In: [no title] – NORDIK XII Copenhagen 2018: Full Programme. Paper presented at Nordic Conference for Art Historians - NORDIK 2018 From 25 October 2018 until 27 October 2018 Venue: University of Copenhagen (KUA), Karen Blixens Vej 1, 2300 Copenhagen S (pp. 110-111). The Nordic Association for Art Historians
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Calling a visitor by her name: The potential of a subjective art educational situation
2018 (English)In: [no title] – NORDIK XII Copenhagen 2018: Full Programme, The Nordic Association for Art Historians , 2018, p. 110-111Conference paper, Oral presentation with published abstract (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

Guided tours for adults in Art Museums are often conducted in an anecdotal and rather disinterested fashion. This has been duly critized by researchers in the art eductional field. A series of initiatives on art educational activities for participants with neurodegenerative disorders have contributed to breaking this tradition. Since 2007, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York has offered the Alzheimer's Project: Making Art Accessible to People with Dementia. The project has aimed at increasing the well-being of participants rather than improving their art-historical education. This has in turn led to greater focus on dialogue between the art, the guide and the participants, where the participants' own observations are given special attention. Several art institutions in the Nordic countries have [no title] —NORDIK XIICopenhagen 2018PROGRAMME DETAILSq—Showing not telling. Art institutional practices of inclusions/exclusions111been inspired by this method, for example in the form of meetings with memories (see fx http://www.alzheimerfonden.se/motenmedminnen ). To call a visitor by his or her name is one aspect of the method used. This paper focuses some of the discussions about the art pedagogical position taken in feminist and queer theory through examples from the educational practice. The aim is to explore how these art educational situations are staged in relation to the target group, people with dementia and how this can broaden the public engagement in dialogue with art.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
The Nordic Association for Art Historians, 2018
National Category
Art History
Research subject
Humanities, Art science; Humanities
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-82370 (URN)
Conference
Nordic Conference for Art Historians - NORDIK 2018 From 25 October 2018 until 27 October 2018 Venue: University of Copenhagen (KUA), Karen Blixens Vej 1, 2300 Copenhagen S
Note

Part of Session: Showing not telling. Art institutional practices of inclusions/exclusions charied by Professor Lena Liepe / Art History and Visual Studies, Linnaeus University, Växjö, Sweden.

Available from: 2019-04-30 Created: 2019-04-30 Last updated: 2019-08-05Bibliographically approved
Suneson, E. & Rosenqvist, J. (2018). Den subjektiva konstpedagogiska situationens potential. In: Konstkritik och konstpedagogik – hållbara framtidsperspektiv Växjö 1-2 februari 2018: . Paper presented at Konstkritik och konstpedagogik – hållbara framtidsperspektiv Växjö 1-2 februari 2018.
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Den subjektiva konstpedagogiska situationens potential
2018 (Swedish)In: Konstkritik och konstpedagogik – hållbara framtidsperspektiv Växjö 1-2 februari 2018, 2018Conference paper, Oral presentation with published abstract (Refereed)
Abstract [sv]

Forskare inom det konstpedagogiska fältet har länge uppmärksammat hur den konstpedagogiska verksamheten för vuxna ofta bedrivs på ett anekdotiskt och slentrianmässigt sätt och ställt sig kritiska till den historiska framställning av mottagare och pedagog som konstruerar kunskap som något som förmedlas uppifrån och ner; från den som har makt till dem som inte har det. En rad satsningar på pedagogik för personer med kognitionsvariation har bidragit till att bryta med denna tradition. Sedan 2007 har Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) i New York erbjudit konstvisningar för Alzheimerdrabbade personer. De kallade visningsserien Meet me at MoMA. Att projektets visningar syftar till att öka deltagarnas välmående snarare än deras konsthistoriska bildning har inneburit ett självklart större fokus på en dialog mellan konstpedagogen och deltagarna, där deltagarnas egna iakttagelser och slutsatser fått mycket utrymme. Flera konstinstitutioner i Sverige har inspirerats av denna metod, exempelvis i form av Möten med minnen ( http://www.alzheimerfonden.se/motenmedminnen ). Papret syftar till att lyfta fram de några av de diskussioner om den konstpedagogiska positionen som förts inom feministisk- och queerteori genom exempel från den pedagogiska praktiken.

National Category
Art History
Research subject
Humanities; Humanities, Art science
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-82375 (URN)
Conference
Konstkritik och konstpedagogik – hållbara framtidsperspektiv Växjö 1-2 februari 2018
Note

Session: Konstpedagogik för alla – en metodinventering

Available from: 2019-04-30 Created: 2019-04-30 Last updated: 2019-08-05Bibliographically approved
Palmsköld, A. & Rosenqvist, J. (2018). Handicrafting Gender: Craft, Performativity and Cultural Heritage. In: Wera Grahn, Ross J. Wilson (Ed.), Gender and Heritage: Performance, Place and Politics (pp. 44-60). London: Routledge
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Handicrafting Gender: Craft, Performativity and Cultural Heritage
2018 (English)In: Gender and Heritage: Performance, Place and Politics / [ed] Wera Grahn, Ross J. Wilson, London: Routledge, 2018, p. 44-60Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

To write the history of craft and heritage engages with constructing a canon of known practices parallel to deconstructing the differences incorporated in institutions dealing with craft. Craft objects have long since been considered as heritage, but craft is also recognized as ’intangible heritage’. This can be seen in UNESCO’s (2008) designation of ’traditional craftmanship’ as a part of global intangible heritage. However, craft's gendered character is not equally recognized. In this article we will discuss craft, heritage and gender from a performativity perspective on making. The main question is how gender patterns are reflected in the understanding of craft, and in heritage making. The aim is to make visible the gender demarcations in the making of craft. We argue that the making of craft and its heritage status has been highly charged with gender differences. Recognizing this is of importance to be able to understand and to challenge heritage making processes and canons when it comes to craft. After a short theoretical background focusing on performativity and the canon of gender differences, three empirical examples are outlined. The first is about organizational aspects of handicraft, the second concerning the technique of crocheting, and the third considering visual representations of crafting, using empirical archival and published materials from the Home Craft Movement in Sweden.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
London: Routledge, 2018
Series
Key Issues in Cultural Heritage
Keywords
craft, crafting, handicraft, gender, heritage, sloyd, kulturarv, görande, hemslöjd, slöjd, genus, konsthantverk
National Category
Art History
Research subject
Humanities, Art science
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-61546 (URN)10.4324/9781315460093-4 (DOI)000475481300005 ()9781138208148 (ISBN)9781138208162 (ISBN)
Note

About the book:

Gender and Heritage brings together a group of international scholars to examine the performance, place and politics of gender within heritage. Through a series of case studies, models and assessments, the significance of understanding and working with concepts of gender is demonstrated as a dynamic and reforming agenda. Demonstrating that gender has become an increasingly important area for heritage scholarship, the collection argues that it should also be recognised as a central structuring device within society and the location where a critical heritage studies can emerge. 

Drawing on contributions from around the world, this edited collection provides a range of innovative approaches to using gender as a mode of enquiry. From the politics of museum displays, the exploration of pedagogy, the role of local initiatives and the legal frameworks that structure representation, the volume’s diversity and objectives represent a challenge for students, academics and professionals to rethink gender. Rather than featuring gender as an addition to wider discussions of heritage, this volume makes gender the focus of concern as a means of building a new agenda within the field. 

This volume, which addresses how we engage with gender and heritage in both practice and theory, is essential reading for scholars at all levels and should also serve as a useful guide for practitioners.

Available from: 2017-03-21 Created: 2017-03-21 Last updated: 2022-11-09Bibliographically approved
Rosenqvist, J. (2017). Developments in research in, on and through (arts &) craft. In: ACSIS (Advanced Cultural Studies Institute of Sweden): konferens i Norrköping, Linköpings Universitet, juni 2017. Paper presented at ACSIS (Advanced Cultural Studies Institute of Sweden), konferens i Norrköping, Linköpings Universitet, juni 2017.
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Developments in research in, on and through (arts &) craft
2017 (English)In: ACSIS (Advanced Cultural Studies Institute of Sweden): konferens i Norrköping, Linköpings Universitet, juni 2017, 2017Conference paper, Oral presentation with published abstract (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

Session: Suspensions – Mobilizing Art and Aesthetics in Cultural Research

To talk about research in, on and through craft, art or design is a common way to describe three possibilities. By discussing some of the latest artistic research that has been developing in Swedish institutions in terms of these categories, I want to highlight some strains or hang ups or suspensions in which it leaves different researchers. I will take the field of Craft as my point of departure. Craftspeople doing research from within their professional fields, means for example doing research in craft, its materials and its methods. To do research in the same field but from an art historian’s or an ethnologist’s point of view usually means to do research on craft. To talk about research through craft could be to start by examining the processes of crafting relating it to corresponding perspectives and knowledges. But is this what the field has provided?

National Category
Art History
Research subject
Humanities, Art science
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-88155 (URN)
Conference
ACSIS (Advanced Cultural Studies Institute of Sweden), konferens i Norrköping, Linköpings Universitet, juni 2017
Available from: 2019-08-21 Created: 2019-08-21 Last updated: 2019-08-29Bibliographically approved
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