Thursday March, 24, 20221: 16:00 – 18:00 Media School Meeting Room with Liisa Rávná Finbog via zoom Zoom link Description Dr. Liisa-Rávná Finbog is a Sámi scholar from Oslo, Vaapste, and Skánit in the Norwegian part of Sápmi. She is currently based in Tampere, on the Finnish side of Sápmi, where she is doing post-doc research. […]
Monday March 14, 2022, 16:00-18:00 – Media School Meeting Room (2nd Floor, Italian Stairs) Adam Khalil on A.C.I.D. (Anti-Cinematic Insurrectionary Directing) With a prankster’s side-eye and biting critique, Adam Khalil’s work breaks and bends linear time and weaves narrative, documentary, and experimental forms together with humor and unapologetic political inquiry to address the ongoing trauma […]
Wednesday 2. March, 202216:00 – 18:00 Location: Hirschsprung Auditorium, Peder Skrams Gade 2, 1054 Copenhagen In the spring of 2022, the SMK (National Gallery of Denmark) will host Haegue Yang: Double Soul, the first solo presentation by the internationally acclaimed South Korean artist Haegue Yang in Denmark. Yang’s practice spans a wide range of media, from […]
Thursday February 10, 2022, 1 pm: Media School Meeting room (2nd Floor via Italian Staircase) with Hyunjin Kim presenting via zoom Link: https://kunstakademiet.zoom.us/j/4533744648?pwd=V1JtU2dFU1lxWmo2SDhpN3VySlFGdz09 Presenting Hyunjin Kim’s recent curatorial practice such as History Has Failed Us, But No Matter (Korean Pavilion of Venice Biennale 2019) and Frequencies of Tradition (Guangdong Times Museum, 2020 and IAP, 2021), the talk explores […]
Forest Curriculum will talk about their research stream and collective art practice on “How To Not Build A Nation”. How to Not Build a Nation is based on an understanding of the modes in which nation-states (as both conceptual configurations and empirical realities) reproduce and perpetuate colonial and pre-colonial violences, and on the role of […]
December 13-16, 10 am -16 pm Description The Forest Curriculum (Bangkok/Yogyakarta/Manila/Seoul/Berlin/Santa Barbara) is an itinerant and nomadic platform for indisciplinary research and mutual co-learning, based in Southeast Asia, and operating internationally. Founded and co-directed by curators Abhijan Toto and Pujita Guha, and with Rosalia Namsai Engchuan, it works with artists, collectives, researchers, indigenous organizations and thinkers, […]
November 23, 13-16 / November 24, 10-16, November 26, 10-16 Description The Ears for Home seminar proposes a collaborative inquiry into the multiple strata of listening around the notion of “home/shelter/refuge.” Taking James Baldwin’s musing in Giovanni’s Room (1956) that “perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition” as a point of departure, the seminar seeks […]
November 23, 10-12 am Copenhagen time Zoom link: https://kunstakademiet.zoom.us/j/4533744648?pwd=V1JtU2dFU1lxWmo2SDhpN3VySlFGdz09 Description Hong-Kai Wang will talk about her recent projects Hazzeh, Borom and fuengu respectively produced in Jordan & Palestine; Jeju Island, South Korea; and Alishan, Taiwan. These projects move along the fault lines, follow the trajectory of winds and seek the sounds of mountains, while attempting to navigate the entanglements between radical moments and lands, […]
How to Turn the Pyramids Upside Down Art, Decolonization and Civilizational Discourse In this seminar, we will first engage with the general structure of origin stories, and then look at how to disarm and abolish modern-capitalist versions of such stories, including those that concern the origins of humankind, civilizations, science and art. In the first session, we will […]
November 8, 2021: 16:00-18:00 – Festsalen Anselm Franke: Public Lecture: Below That Scheme: Decolonization and Art What does it mean to revise and decolonize (art) history? In this talk, I will be speaking about how and why “art” and especially “art history” has been historically divorced from larger cosmological questions, and what function the – […]
Kaisen will talk about her artistic research PhD through which she has explored how translation and borders otherwise can manifest as resistance but also as a site for mutual recognition, dialogue, and collective emergence.The objective of the PhD was to synthesize practice and theory and advance an approach to artistic research that is inherently interdisciplinary […]
21-22 October, 2021: 11:00 – 17:00 – Media School Workshop Description My practice draws from film history, literature and anthropology, finding its expression in process-based and collaborative formats – often as experimental dramaturgic processes, leading to the production of films and object ensembles. At times the outcome of my research takes on an essayistic tone […]
Afgang (MFA Degree Show) is the annual exhibition for the graduates from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts’ Schools of Visual Arts. In these months, 28 artists are finishing their 3-year MFA education. The exhibition celebrates and presents new works created by the graduates of The Art Academy. The exhibition is at one time the […]
Hanne Lippard (*1984, Milton Keynes/UK, lives and works in Berlin) has been using language as the raw material for her work for the last decade, processing it in the form of texts, vocal performances, sound installations, printed objects and sculpture. Her work takes its place in a rich history of the performative use of the […]
In her talk and conversation, Stefanie Hessler will focus on the 17th MOMENTA Biennale titled Sensing Nature she is currently curating and which is set to open in September this year in Montreal. The exhibition is informed by a desire to unsettle the divide between nature and its representation. The exhibitions will be guided by the works of […]
Circling around collective and collaborative ways of producing and dealing with moving images in our multiple pasts , futures , and nows the workshop will put an emphasis on collaboration and how the practical and the theoretical charge each other and mingle in non-binary and unexpected ways (if you allow them to do so). An […]
Don Mee Choi will read from her latest book of mixed-media poetry DMZ Colony (Wave Books, 2020) and an essay pamphlet Translation is a mode=Translation is an anti-neocolonial mode (UDP, 2020). She will discuss some of her poetic, visual, and translation devices: the excavation of exiled memory through her father’s photographs, archival materials, interviews, and drawings. […]
Maja Lee Langvad (b. 1980) is a writer and translator who lives in Copenhagen. She is the author of several books including Find Holger Danske (“Find Holger Dane”) and HUN ER VRED – Et vidnesbyrd om transnational adoption (”SHE IS ANGRY – A testimony of transnational adoption”). She has collaborated on different projects with composers, musicians, visual artists, and […]
Seminar on translation I will introduce some of the ground principles, meaning, and challenges of working with translation and experiences as a translator. Together we will read excerpts from literary texts that deal with translation in both linguistic, conceptual, and visual ways, and use the seminar to prepare for the upcoming seminar with writer and […]
A practical After Effects course with a focus on developing individual projects. Naïmé Perrette (b.1989, France) creates multi-layer spaces that explore human relations to their social and geographical environments, using video, digital collages and installations. In her works, she has engaged with the role of labour in the construction of young adult identity, and with […]
In this intensive two-day practical-theoretical workshop we will explore voices from a materialist feminist approach in relation to aesthetic strategies of figurations and collective listening. On the first day of the workshop, we will be reading aloud excerpts from philosopher Adriana Cavarero’s work and look into her conceptualization of the voice as body and as […]
Organized in collaboration between the School of Media Arts, The School of Conceptual and Contextual Pracitces, and The Institute for Art, Writing and Research 10 am: Meet in front of the Royal Cast Collection 10-12 Guided tour of the collection with Henrik Holm 12 noon: View “I AM QUEEN MARY” by La Vaughn Belle and […]
Every Ocean Hughes (EOH), f.k.a. Emily Roysdon (born 1977), is an interdisciplinary artist and writer. EOH’s recent projects take the form of performance, photographic installations, print making, text, video, and curating. EOH was editor and co-founder of the queer feminist journal and artist collective, LTTR. Her many collaborations include music with The Knife, Colin Self, […]
Tuesday 9. February, 2021 – Tuesday 11. May, 2021 Ideas travel through societies like electric impulses travel through the network: a relay , tripped by a signal, emits another signal. As Warren S. McCulloch – early cybernetician, states: The signal’s […] effect depends only on conditions where it ends, not where it begins. An intrinsic […]
28.01 – 02.02.2021 On the first day of the workshop we’ll be reading excerpts from different kinds of literature – poetry, science-fiction, cut-up prose, and theory (of the more performative kind) – and let ourselves be inspired by them through small writing exercises. The texts and our conversation will revolve around issues of voice, memory, […]
9. November 2020, 14:00-16:00 Organized in collaboration between the School of Media Arts, The School of Conceptual and Contextual Practices, and the Institute for Art, Writing and Research
Wednesday 27.01.2021, 15.00 – 17.00 Novitskova’s work tackles the complexity and eventual failures of depicting the world through technologically driven narratives. By bringing together art and science to the level of nature, Novitskova brings awareness to the mediation and representation tools used to depict these realms. More specifically, Novitskova’s work focuses on the mapping of […]
16,17. 12. 2020, 10am – 3pm This workshop will extend and play with the scale, threshold, and flavor of “the entrance” as a well-worn gesture of stage and screen. We will conduct group theatrical exercises (physical and vocal), share some favorite examples of entrances from our surrounding cultures, and create our own lexicon or moves […]
Wednesday 25. November, 2020 As a visual artist working primarily in video and sculpture, Jumana Manna explores how power is articulated through relationships, often focusing on the body and materiality in relation to narratives of nationalism and histories of place. Manna’s works have been exhibited internationally in both solo and group exhibitions, including the Toronto Biennale (2019); Jumana […]
6.11.2020, 13.00-16.00 The Forest Curriculum is an itinerant and nomadic platform for indisciplinary research and mutual co-learning. It proposes to assemble a located critique of the Anthropocene via the naturecultures of zomia, the forested belt that connects South and Southeast Asia. The Forest Curriculum works with artists, researchers, indigenous organizations and thinkers, musicians, activists. It […]