Open Call 2

Emelia Muriel Koberg

Emelia Muriel Koberg has been awarded a grant to carry out an artistic exploration at the intersection of somatic practice, dance, and care within the LSS framework*. Through artistic encounters centred on movement, body awareness, and sensory listening, she aims to investigate how these practices can contribute to well-being, participation, and communication for adults with intellectual disabilities and autism, with varying levels of verbal language ability.
*The Act (1993:387) concerning Support and Service for Persons with Certain Functional Impairments (LSS).

Pia Sandström

Pia Sandström has been awarded a grant to artistically explore the body’s hidden capacities. Drawing on her own experience of heart surgery with complications, she will work with conversations, interviews, and simple workshops involving patients and healthcare staff shortly after medical procedures, in order to examine the potential of art to open the senses from an existential perspective.

Eileen Laurie

Eileen Laurie has been awarded a grant to explore how her artistic practice can be integrated through a combination of aesthetic creation and nature-based experiences to influence well-being and creativity among people with mental health challenges. In urban-adjacent natural environments, she will employ methods such as mindfulness, movement, nature experiences, and creative practices to engage participants’ different senses.