RESEARCH INTERESTS
Academic leadership, research development, community partner management
Program development and implementation
Fieldwork theory and practice
Documentary and film theory and practice
Social, public and participatory art theory and practice
Subcultures, group dynamics, activism, advocacy
TEACHING INTERESTS
Theory and practice of documentary film/video, video art, photography and public/social practice in contemporary art
All elements of documentary and fiction film and video: writing, pre-production, production and post production
Film & Video Production using DSLR, RED, AMIRA and 16 mm film
Traditional and digital animation
Digital photography production and post production
Artist Books and Publication design
Photography Books
TEACHING: COURSES (selection)
The Director as Collaborator
Control and Improvisation: Styling the Real in Moving Image Production
Sound of the Real: Sound and Editing in Documentary Film
The City & The City: Access and Collaboration in Community-based Projects
Engagement: Expanded Cinema, Site-Specificity, and Impact
Fieldwork Methods for Artists
STUDENT WORK
A Temporary Roof (publication concluding a course in site-specific and community oriented art at Valand Academy, Gothenburg University)
CONFERENCES/ PRESENTATIONS / WORKSHOPS (Presenter)
2018 — Moderna Museet, Malmö Sweden (March)
2018 — University of Delaware (with Chi Chi Mizrahi( (April)
2018 — MIT, Cambridge, MA (March)
2017 — The Jewish Museum, NYC (with Chi Chi Mizrahi) (Dec)
2017 — Horning, A. & Jordeno, S. Retired pimps’ reflections on quitting. American Society of Criminology. Philadelphia, PA (November)
2017 — Horning, A. & Jordeno, S. Pimp/sex worker dyads: An analysis of their ‘connected lives’ in a Harlem sex market. American Anthropological Society. Washington, D.C. (November)
2017 — Doc Fundamentals, Union Docs, Brooklyn (with Gabriel Sedgwick, June)
2016 — "LGTBQ Film as an Agent of Social Change: Then & Now" Panel discussion during Frameline40, with Deb Esquenazi, Sara Jordenö, Ellen Schneider and Johnny Symons, June
2016 — "Not About Us Without Us: Art, Film and Situated Knowledge", Artist Talk at Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, June
2016 — "Women and Cinema" Panel discussion with Nadia Abraham, Michelle Ehlen, Sara Jordenö, Tel Aviv Fest, June
2016 — "The Finally New Queer Cinema?" Panel discussion, Berlinale Talents, Berlin with Christine Vachon, Bruce LaBruce, Händl Klaus, Sara Jordenö, Akosua Adoma Owusu, February
2015 — House of Words Roundtable, GIBCA (with Elvira Dyangani Ose et. all) September
2015 — Horning, A., & Jordenö, S. "Whims, plans and business models: Intersections of cold cash and caring". Hosted by Comparing European Prostitution Policies: Understanding Scales and Cultures of Governance. Troubling prostitution: Exploring intersections of sex, intimacy and labour. Vienna, Austria, April.
2012 — Horning, A.M., Jordenö, S., Dejanova, T., Denison, E., Sriken, J., & Satuluri, S. "Pimps’ management styles in an informal economy". John Jay International Conference. New York: NY, June
2013 — Sara Jordenö and Twiggy Pucci Garçon: KIKI, presentation at LMCC Downtown Dinner 2013, NYC, May
2013 — Sara Jordenö and Twiggy Pucci Garçon: KIKI, guest lecture at CUNY/John Jay College, NYC, April
2013 — Sara Jordenö and Twiggy Pucci Garçon: KIKI, Distinguished Lecturer Series, Haverford College, Philadelphia, February
2012 — Contemporary artists and Ingmar Bergman. Film screening and discussion. Hynek Pallas, Sara Jordenö, Thomas Broomé, Markus Öhrn, Marcus Lindeen, Sture Cinema, Stockholm. Moderator: Catrin Lundqvist.
2011 — “Diamond People - Instructions for a film” Artist Talk at Bildmuseet, Umeå, Nov 23
2010 — “Details of the World: A Conversation with Mark Dion, J Henry Fair, Sara Jordenö, and Sophie Ristelhueber”. Moderator Jeffrey Kastner, Cabinet. The Cooper Union, NYC, Oct 28
2010 — “On feminist strategies and methods”, panel at Moderna Museet, Stockholm with: Mary Kelly, Petra Bauer, Sara Jordenö, Annika Karlsson Rixon, Anna Viola Hallberg. Moderator: Gertrud Sandqvist. Stockholm, November
2008 — “The Long Distance Runner” (with the Production Unit), Chto Delat/ICA, Moscow, February
2006 — “On Distance”, Jan Van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, January
2004 — “The Pool” Trespassers, Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö
2004 — “The Pool” Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, Vancover [CA]
2003 — “The Pool” at The Politics of Memory, Occidental College, Los Angeles
SYMPOSIA (Organizer)
2015 — "The Empire of Love: Alternative Relationships and Other Possibilities", a symposium with Erika Alm and Ellie Nordfeldt, Katarina Bonnevier, Mathias Danbolt, Transmilitanta Brigaden and Al Masson, at Glashuset, Valand Academy, in collaboration with Röda Sten Konsthall and The Hasselblad Foundation (Co-organizer, with Carlos Motta and Mary Coble) January
2014 — "Different Views on Equality", a symposium with Baker Karim and Hynek Pallas, Glashuset, Valand Academy (co-organizer with Ann-Charlotte Glasberg-Blomqvist) September
2014 — "Organising Art", an international symposium in Kalv, Svenljunga Kommun (co-organizer with Jason E. Bowman) May
2006 — "Slowly learning to survive the desire to simplify", a three-day interdisciplinary symposium at IASPIS, Stockholm (co-organizer with the Production Unit) September
FRINGEFIELD
FringeField is a platform and network for researchers, advocates and cultural producers, founded by Amber Horning, a criminologist and Sara Jordenö, a filmmaker and artist. Fringe field is a scientific term for the peripheral field outside of the center. This field can extend far beyond, and at times interfere with, the center. We use it as a metaphor for our focus on hard-to-reach populations and the spaces they create and exist in. Radical knowledge can be accessed by collaborations with actors in these fields, and by employing methods used in art, film, advocacy and social science research. FringeField opens up to collaborators inside and outside of academia and concerns itself with the promise of fieldwork and of inclusivity of a multitude of narratives of lived experience.
Kulturföreningen FringeField (formerly Kulturföreningen Öar) is a Swedish Non-Profit Organization (Förening)