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Åshild Sunde Feyling Thorsen

Adviser, Curator, Team leader, PhD candidate in visual anthropology
University Museum of Bergen
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  • E-mailAshild.Thorsen@uib.no
  • Phone+47 55 58 31 22+47 951 76 610
  • Visitor Address
    Villaveien 1a
  • Postal Address
    Postboks 7800
    5020 Bergen

Curator at Department for Research and Science Communication

  • Team leader Content and Exhibitions
  • Exhibit curator

 

Exhibitions

Ongoing:

Early Human Behaviour (2023) Universitetsmuseet, Naturhistorie

Neuro-SysMed (2023) Universitetsmuseet, Naturhistorie

Bare bones (2024) Universitetsmuseet, Naturhistorie

 

Previous:

Queer Cultural Years (2022) University Museum, Natural History

Our Porous World (2022) University Museum, Natural History

Belongs in a museum? (2021) University Museum, Natural History

Machine Vision (2021) University Museum, Natural History

Ordet er Fritt? (2020) University Museum, Natural History

Worldviews (2019) University Museum, Natural History

 

 

PhD-project:

The Singing Bowl: Commodity, Artefact and Healing Instrument (PhD project)

Metal bowls produced in Nepal are used for healing and sound therapy world­wide. By following the sing­ing bowl from production, through sellers and buy­ers and to therapy rooms in Nepal and Norway, this re­search project explores how an artefact is constructed in a globalized field of alterna­tive medicine and religion.

Looking into the different stages in the life of the arte­fact, the project investigates how the singing bowl is be­coming a ritual and healing object. The singing bowl is approached as commodity, tourist souvenir, ritual item, medical and musical instru­ment. Further, the project investigates the relation be­tween human body, sound and artefact in the field of alternative medicine

Thorsen, Åshild Sunde Feyling. The Sound of a Bowl. Presentation of audiovisual research on sound healing. Sjón Anthropological Film Festival; Copenhagen, 2019-03-08 - 2019-03-10

Thorsen, Åshild Sunde Feyling. Visualizing sound healing: representing multisensorial experiences through filmmaking. Art, Materiality and Representation; RAI/BM/SOAS, London 2018-06-01 - 2018-06-03

Thorsen, Åshild Sunde Feyling. A sense of the healing sound. Workshop: Visual Anthropology, Ethnographic Film and Anthropological Knowledge; UiT 2017-05-31 - 2017-06-01  

Thorsen, Åshild Sunde Feyling. Digital storytelling for teaching. Digital storytelling workshop; Fergus Falls, Minnesota. 2017-05-10 

Thorsen, Åshild Sunde Feyling. En spesiell bolle: globale nyreligiøse gjenstander. Årskonferanse i Norsk antropologisk forening, Lillehammer; 2017-05-05 - 2017-05-07 

Thorsen, Åshild Sunde Feyling. Negotiating identity and artefacts in Kathmandu. Himalayan Studies Conference V, The Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies, Boulder, CO; 2017-09-01 - 2017-09-04

  • Show author(s) (2023). Utstillingen "Tidlig menneskelig atferd" er klar.
  • Show author(s) (2023). På tokt med OceanX.
  • Show author(s) (2023). I vinden: Ny utstilling om menneskenes utvikling.
  • Show author(s) (2022). Når museet mangler svar. Museumsnytt.
  • Show author(s) (2022). Gjenstanden ble registrert som nagle.
  • Show author(s) (2022). Det er viktig at man ikke bare henger opp Pride-flagg: Norsk homohistorie på Universitetsmuseet i Bergen.
  • Show author(s) (2022). Det blir en gøy feiring og starten på Regnbuedagene! .
  • Show author(s) (2022). Aldri sett dette før.
  • Show author(s) (2021). Maskinsyn: Ditt digitale liv - Smart eller overvåket?
  • Show author(s) (2020). Oppdagelsen av Jotunfjeldene – En reise inn i geologiens metamorfe verden.
  • Show author(s) (2019). Verdsbilete.
  • Show author(s) (2019). The Sound of a Bowl. Presentation of audiovisual research on sound healing.
  • Show author(s) (2019). News from JAF. NAFA Network Newsletter.
  • Show author(s) (2019). Krystaller - Se de vokser!
  • Show author(s) (2019). Enhjørningen.
  • Show author(s) (2019). Amerikakoffert og mobiltelefon – identitetsbærende gjenstander ved migrasjon. 128-138. In:
    • Show author(s) (2019). Inkluderende museer. Kulturkunnskap og -arbeid som katalysator for god inkludering. Norges museumsforbund.
  • Show author(s) (2018). Visualizing sound healing: representing multisensorial experiences through filmmaking.
  • Show author(s) (2018). To hear healing sounds: Skilled listening amongst sound healers and filmmaking anthropologists. Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift. 165-178.
  • Show author(s) (2018). Journal of Anthropological Films (JAF) celebrates its first year . NAFA Network Newsletter.
  • Show author(s) (2018). Den vanskelege reisa.
  • Show author(s) (2018). Blant turister og helbredende boller i Himalaya. Årbok for Universitetsmuseet i Bergen. 56-61.
  • Show author(s) (2017). Review of NAFA 2017 - Anthropological Film Festival and Conference, Aarhus, August 2017. NAFA Network Newsletter.
  • Show author(s) (2017). Negotiating identity and artefacts in Kathmandu.
  • Show author(s) (2017). En spesiell bolle: globale nyreligiøse gjenstander.
  • Show author(s) (2017). Digital storytelling for teaching.
  • Show author(s) (2017). A sense of the healing sound.

More information in national current research information system (CRIStin)

Member of working committee Nordic Anthropological Film Association nafa.uib.no

Editorial assistant for Journal of Anthropological Films jaf.uib.no

Fields of competence 
Material culture
Museology
Nepal
New Religions
Science communication
Visual Anthropology
Visual Culture