Senior curator at Department for Research and Science Communication

• Responsibilities: Exhibition and content production
• Exhibition curator

 

Exhibitions

Ongoing:

It has never been quiet (2026) Universitetsmuseet, Naturhistorie

 

Previous:

Bergen-Greenland: forgotten connections. (2025) Universitetsmuseet, Naturhistorie

Bare Bones (2025) Universitetsmuseet, Naturhistorie

Ambivalent intelligens (2024) Universitetsmuseet, Naturhistorie

The Imagery of the Stone Age (2023) Universitetsmuseet, Naturhistorie

Early Human Behaviour (2023) Universitetsmuseet, Naturhistorie

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

2026

• Nisancioglu, Kerim Hestnes; Tvinnereim, Endre; Øvretveit, Ole et al. (2026). Fra Hans Egede til Donald Trump: Et seminar om Grønlands fortid og fremtid. (external link)

2025

• Hausken, Eli Kristine Økland; Jansen, Siri Skretting; Thorsen, Åshild Sunde Feyling et al. (2025). Universitetsmuseet gjennom 200 år. (external link)
• Thorsen, Åshild Sunde Feyling; Meijer, Hanneke Johanna Maria; Murgatroyd, Ruth et al. (2025). Bare bein. (external link)
• Grossman, Alyssa; Kamerling, Leonard; Dietrich, Martha-Cecilia et al. (2025). Editorial. (external link)
• Thorsen, Åshild Sunde Feyling; Milne, Donald; Mossin, Tuva et al. (2025). Maria. (external link)
• Thorsen, Åshild Sunde Feyling; Mossin, Tuva; Lien, Sigrid et al. (2025). Bergen-Grønland: Glemte forbindelser. (external link)
• Thorsen, Åshild Sunde Feyling; Grossman, Alyssa; Kamerling, Leonard et al. (2025). Earth Day Issue Editorial. (external link)

2023

• Thorsen, Åshild Sunde Feyling; Tandberg, Anne Helene S.; Straube, Nicolas (2023). På tokt med OceanX. (external link)
• Thorsen, Åshild Sunde Feyling (2023). I vinden: Ny utstilling om menneskenes utvikling. (external link)
• Thorsen, Åshild Sunde Feyling (2023). Utstillingen "Tidlig menneskelig atferd" er klar. (external link)

2022

• Thorsen, Åshild Sunde Feyling (2022). Når museet mangler svar. (external link)
• Thorsen, Åshild Sunde Feyling (2022). Det blir en gøy feiring og starten på Regnbuedagene!. (external link)
• Thorsen, Åshild Sunde Feyling (2022). Gjenstanden ble registrert som nagle. (external link)
• Thorsen, Åshild Sunde Feyling (2022). Det er viktig at man ikke bare henger opp Pride-flagg: Norsk homohistorie på Universitetsmuseet i Bergen. (external link)
• Thorsen, Åshild Sunde Feyling (2022). Aldri sett dette før. (external link)

2021

• Rettberg, Jill Walker; Thorsen, Åshild Sunde Feyling; Kronman, Linda et al. (2021). Maskinsyn: Ditt digitale liv - Smart eller overvåket?. (external link)

2020

• Thorsen, Åshild Sunde Feyling (2020). Oppdagelsen av Jotunfjeldene – En reise inn i geologiens metamorfe verden. (external link)

2019

• Jansen, Siri Skretting; Jansen, Øystein James; Helland-Hansen, William et al. (2019). Krystaller - Se de vokser!. (external link)
• Thorsen, Åshild Sunde Feyling; Kutschera, Lena Eikeland (2019). Amerikakoffert og mobiltelefon – identitetsbærende gjenstander ved migrasjon. (external link)
• Thorsen, Åshild Sunde Feyling (2019). Enhjørningen. (external link)
• Thorsen, Åshild Sunde Feyling; Hausken, Eli Kristine Økland (2019). Verdsbilete. (external link)
• Thorsen, Åshild Sunde Feyling; Varvantakis, Christos (2019). News from JAF. (external link)
• Thorsen, Åshild Sunde Feyling (2019). The Sound of a Bowl. Presentation of audiovisual research on sound healing.. (external link)

2018

• Thorsen, Åshild Sunde Feyling (2018). Visualizing sound healing: representing multisensorial experiences through filmmaking. (external link)
• Thorsen, Åshild Sunde Feyling (2018). Blant turister og helbredende boller i Himalaya. (external link)
• Thorsen, Åshild Sunde Feyling; Kutschera, Lena Eikeland (2018). Den vanskelege reisa. (external link)
• Thorsen, Åshild Sunde Feyling (2018). Å høre helbredende lyd: Spesialisert lytting blant lydhealere og filmende antropologer. (external link)
• Thorsen, Åshild Sunde Feyling (2018). Journal of Anthropological Films (JAF) celebrates its first year. (external link)

2017

• Thorsen, Åshild Sunde Feyling (2017). Review of NAFA 2017 - Anthropological Film Festival and Conference, Aarhus, August 2017. (external link)
• Thorsen, Åshild Sunde Feyling (2017). Negotiating identity and artefacts in Kathmandu. (external link)
• Thorsen, Åshild Sunde Feyling (2017). Digital storytelling for teaching. (external link)
• Thorsen, Åshild Sunde Feyling (2017). En spesiell bolle: globale nyreligiøse gjenstander. (external link)
• Thorsen, Åshild Sunde Feyling (2017). A sense of the healing sound. (external link)

See a complete overview of publications in Cristin.

Assistant General Secretary for Nordic Anthropological Film Association nafa.uib.no

Co-editor for Journal of Anthropological Films jaf.uib.no