International Guests

     

Ann Therese Lotherington is Professor of Sociology and Head of Department at Centre for Women’s and Gender Research at UiT The Arctic University of Norway. Her professional orientation is new material feminist theory and citizenship theory that she has used and developed for research in different empirical settings, most recently related to everyday life of people living with dementia. Her current interest in relational aesthetics and the significance of creativity in people’s lives comes from connections with people in some way afflicted with this disease. The entanglement of the creative arts in everyday life challenge dominant understandings of community and connectivity, and how a life with dementia might be lived, which demands renewed research approaches and new research to be fully understood.
 
Lilli Mittner is a musicologist and holds currently a postdoc position in feminist art intervention at the Centre for Women and Gender Research at University of Tromsø The Arctic University of Norway. Lilli is broadly interested in non-oppressive practices in art making processes. She develops creative spaces of possibilities by intervening into social and cultural practices. In her project she addresses specifically methodological challenges in artists’ practices of working with people living with dementia by diffracting the theoretical basis of art interventions with feminist theory and relational aesthetics. Her research is situated in a broader context of arts-based research and the humanities. Lilli’s scientific background touches upon the fields of history, sociology, pedagogy, ethnology, and psychology of music as well as media and communication studies.

Lilli and Ann are founders of the Artful Dementia Citizen Science Lab are members of the The International Research Network Arts & Dementia (IRNAD) brings together scholars from all kind of academic disciplines working within the field of Arts and Dementia.