Senior 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

2023

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

2022

• 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). Gjenstanden ble registrert som nagle. (external link)
• Thorsen, Åshild Sunde Feyling (2022). Aldri sett dette før. (external link)
• Thorsen, Åshild Sunde Feyling (2022). Det blir en gøy feiring og starten på Regnbuedagene! . (external link)
• Thorsen, Åshild Sunde Feyling (2022). Når museet mangler svar. (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

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

2018

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

2017

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

See a complete overview of publications in Cristin.

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

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