:Draft:Bogdan Szyber

{{Infobox person

| name = Bogdan Szyber

| birth_date = 1958

| birth_place = Zabrze, Poland

| occupation = Performance Artist

| website = https://reich-szyber.com/en/

}}

Bogdan Szyber is a Swedish multidisciplinary performance artist born on October 20 in Zabrze, Poland.{{Cite web |date=1958-10-20 |title=Bogdan Szyber - SFdb |url=https://www.svenskfilmdatabas.se/en/item/?type=person&itemid=271099 |access-date=2025-05-11 |language=en}} Some of the different genres of artistry he has been involved in include playwriting, stage directing,{{Cite web |title=Chronology exhibitions and events |url=https://www.modernamuseet.se/stockholm/en/the-collection/history/chronology/#1990-tal |access-date=2025-05-10 |website=Moderna Museet i Stockholm |language=en-US}} dance, theater,{{Cite web |date=2019-04-26 |title=Ship of Fools |url=https://stadsteatern.goteborg.se/pa-scen/2018-2019/ship-of-fools/ |access-date=2025-05-10 |website=Göteborgs Stadsteater |language=sv}} opera,{{Cite web |date=2022-10-29 |title=Bogdan Szyber, Stage director, Set designer - Performances and Repertoire on Operabase |url=https://www.operabase.com/bogdan-szyber-a30442/en |access-date=2025-05-10 |website=Operabase |language=en}} and film.{{Cite web |title=Bogdan Szyber {{!}} Director, Writer, Producer |url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm7333106/ |access-date=2025-05-10 |website=IMDb |language=en-US}}{{Cite book |last=Engbloom |first=Sören |url=https://fa-art.se/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Art-in-Sweden.pdf |title=Art in Sweden - Leaving the empty Cube |pages=61 |language=en}} He has collaborated on many of these different artistic productions with Carina Reich. Together, they form the artist duo Reich + Szyber.{{Cite web |title=Bogdan Szyber & Carina Reich |url=https://www.musicmaster.eu/bogdan-szyber-carina-reich |access-date=2025-05-10 |website=NAIP European Master of Music |language=en-US}}

He has studied for a doctorate degree at Stockholm University of the Arts,{{Cite web |title=Bogdan Szyber - Stockholm University of the Arts (SKH) |url=https://www.uniarts.se/english/people/phd-students/bogdan-szyber/ |access-date=2025-05-10 |website=www.uniarts.se |language=en-gb}} and as of 2025, he is still active in various performing arts projects.{{Cite book |last=Szyber |first=Bogdan |url=https://uniarts.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2:1424392&dswid=2758 |title=Fauxthentication : Art Academia and Authorship (or the site-specifics of the Academic Artist) |date=2020 |publisher=Stockholms konstnärliga högskola}}

Fauxthentication – Art, Academia and Authorship ''(or the site-specifics of the Academic Artist)''

Szyber earned his doctoral degree in 2020 from Stockholm University of the Arts with the artistic thesis: Fauxthentication – Art, Academia and Authorship (or the site-specifics of the Academic Artist).

The thesis critiques the shortcomings of an increasingly standardized higher education industry and its links to academic fraud. It was the first thesis in Sweden within the field of artistic research to be failed, sparking and continuing to generate extensive debate about artistic research and the role of academia.{{Cite web |last=Stasinski |first=Robert |date=2020-06-30 |title=Criticised Artistic Research, Didn't Pass the Viva |url=https://kunstkritikk.com/criticised-artistic-research-didnt-pass-the-viva/ |access-date=2025-05-10 |website=Kunstkritikk |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |title=Art and academia – a complicated relationship? - Stockholm University of the Arts (SKH) |url=https://www.uniarts.se/english/research/seminar-series/art-talks/art-and-academia-a-complicated-relationship/ |access-date=2025-05-10 |website=www.uniarts.se |language=en-gb}}

This caused the thesis to gain notoriety in the media and further fueled the debate on artistic research. As several news outlets picked up on the events, the thesis itself became the subject of both articles and documentaries.{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.svtplay.se/video/j16gP79/fallet-bogdan-konstnaren-som-underkandes |title=Fallet Bogdan – konstnären som underkändes |last=Sweden |first=Sveriges Television AB, Stockholm |language=sv |access-date=2025-05-10 |via=www.svtplay.se}}{{Cite web |last=Ericsson |first=Lars O. |date=2020-08-13 |title=Artistic Research Is a Threat to Artistic Freedom |url=https://kunstkritikk.com/artistic-research-is-a-threat-to-artistic-freedom/ |access-date=2025-05-10 |website=Kunstkritikk |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Arrhenius |first=Sara |date=2020-11-17 |title=Recent Descriptions of Artistic Research Are Polarised and Misleading |url=https://kunstkritikk.com/recent-descriptions-of-artistic-research-are-polarised-and-misleading/ |access-date=2025-05-10 |website=Kunstkritikk |language=en-US}}

In 2024, it was featured as a theme in the stage play Fool's Errand – an Alchemical Sonata, directed and performed by Bogdan Szyber. The thesis's conclusions and themes were used to illustrate the experience of working within—and being a part of—the world of academia.{{Cite web |title=Project Fools Errand: An Alchemical Sonata |url=https://www.foolserrand.se/ |access-date=2025-05-10 |website=Foolserrand.se}}

:Draft:Bogdan Szyber

Fauxthentication – Art, Academia and Authorship ''(or the site-specifics of the Academic Artist)''

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