My mission is to build a stronger bridge between artistic research and academic thinking and to understand the difference between the two. “Thus, since the seer is caught up in what he sees, it is still himself he sees: there is a fundamental narcissism of all vision” said Merleau-Ponty. The question that arises from this is: How can artists reflect on our own art without becoming complete narcissists? Reflecting on my own experience as an actor and actor-manager I strive to be conscious of the fact that no cultural standpoint is central – since there is no way I can absent myself from my own culture and background. I realize that the performances I make is about myself and my own values and that is the core of my work and my research. In 1998, 2001 and 2006 I played Nora in a Chinese production of A Doll’s house in Beijing. In this in-house seminar I will present some of my research on this project and discuss how phenomenology and autoethnography can be fruitful and challenging tools to investigate Ibsen’s work both for artistic and for academic research.
Please note that this seminar will be live-streamed. Please register here before 9 March and a Zoom link will be sent on the day of the seminar.
Agnete G. Haaland is an actress and artistic director. She has co-written and produced a wide range of monologues in her own company. She has been CEO and artistic director at The National Stage in Bergen for eight years, president of the Norwegian Actors' Equity for eleven years, and president of The International Federation of Actors (FIA) for four years. She has played leading roles both nationally and internationally. She completed a master’s degree in Ibsen Studies in 2021 and is currently a guest researcher at the Centre for Ibsen Studies.