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

2025

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

2022

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

2018

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

2019

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

2020

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

2017

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

2026

• Kerim Hestnes Nisancioglu; Endre Tvinnereim; Ole Øvretveit et al. (2026). Fra Hans Egede til Donald Trump: Et seminar om Grønlands fortid og fremtid. (external link)
• Rakel Odette Tetlie; Åshild Sunde Feyling Thorsen; Ida Ramborg Sagen (2026). Vanskelige tema i museet. (external link)

2023

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

2021

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