Research

I am interested in performance, design and creative/artsbased and various other practice-based and embodied forms of knowledge creation, experience and citizenship. I have written extensively about the performance turn in cultural/social theory, especially with regards to heritage/museums and leisure/tourism studies, including the co-authoured/edited Performing Tourist Places (Ashgate 2004, Routledge 2017), Tourism, Performance and The Everyday (Routledge 2009, 2015), Experimental Museology (Routledge 2021), and is currently working on an edited book on Art, Heritage and Performative Politics (Edward Elgar 2024 (forthcoming)). Currently I focus on researching crossovers between and creative explorations of art/performance and cultural/natural heritage.

Short CV

I am trained as a cultural geographer (ass. professor 2000-14) but since 2000 I have worked across the boundaries between design studies, social and communication studies, environmental humanities and art/performance studies. Since 2014 I have been part of the communication/performance-design section, RU, from 2023 as full professor.

I was local research leader in the national project "Our Museum" (2016-21, http://ourmuseum.dk//) and participated in the EUR+ project “Exploring Transdisciplinary Education combing Arts & Sciences” (2019-22, https://rasl.nu/erasmus/) . Since 2017 I have headed the research group on Visual Culture and Performance Design (https://ruc.dk/en/forskningsgruppe/visper) at Roskilde University. In 2013 I was part of establishing FabLab RUC (https://fablab.ruc.dk/). Since then parts of my research has been about - and with - people and art & technology practioners from the maker milieux. Recently, I have also collaborated with environmental researchers, designers, curators and activists and artists engaged in the “planetary turn”.  

While much of my recent work is based on arts-based, creative and interventionist methods, and collaborations with artists and activists working from queer/feminist, decolonial and environmental or “planetary” perspectives, I am also more broadly interested in exploring relations between performance, design and space on all scales, especially with regards to embodiment, power and citizenship. With regards to ph.d.-supervision the list of ph.d.-projects I have supervised below may offer some additional inspiration.

Current Ph.D.-projects

Performance Celebration – Performance Formats in Public Space, Iben Elmstrøm

Successfully defended Ph.D.-projects

Curating Situated Practices. Entanglements In-between Art, Academia and Lived Experiences, Anne Julie Arnfred

Street art, heritage and more-than-representational approaches, Laima Nomeikaite (2023)

The Museum as a Hybrid, Mediated Experience Space, Signe Lykke Littrup (2019)

The Right Tuning. (on Architecture and Atmosphere), Pernille Henriette Wiil (2016)

Communication Mysteries (in cultural museums), Jonas Abkjær Andersen (2015)

Doing the Urban Countryside, Maja de Neergaard (2014)

Feeling at Home, Carsten Schjøtt Philipsen (2013)

Collective Mobilities of Everyday Life: On Train Commuting and the Creation of a Mobile Place, Hanne Louise Jensen (2012)

The Guided Tour – a Co-Produced Tourism Experience, Jane Widtfeldt Meged (2010)

Emergent Tourism: An Actor-Network Approach to Tourism Economies, Gunnar Þór Jóhannesson (2007)