The Nordic Summer Academy for artistic research (SAAR) will be held between August 12th and 19th 2018, in Malmö, Sweden. All sessions will take place at the Inter Arts Center , a resource for interdisciplinary artistic research at the Faculty of Fine and Performing arts at Lund University. SAAR brings artist-researchers (PhD candidates, Doctoral candidates or research fellows in artistic research) in a wide range of art forms together from Norway, Finland and Sweden and will this year be organized by Stefan Östersjö, associate professor of artistic research at the Malmö Academy of Music.
Each participating country in the SAAR network selects their participants internally and inform prospective applicants how to register.
The number of allocated participants per country is six (Finland: 6, Sweden: 6, Norway: 6), altogether 18 participants. Each country also has three supervisor positions allocated to them, making it altogether 9 supervisors participating in SAAR. The deadline for partner countries to submit the names of all participators is April 6 2018.