Activities

• 31 Mar. 2025, 9:00-16:30

  Kalaallit Inuit Performance

  Isumasioqatigiinneq eqqaasitsisoq - A re-membering seminar.

• 15 Nov. 2024, 9:00-17:00

  Infrastructure Aesthetics: Concluding Seminar Art as Forum

  The New Carlsberg Foundation research centre Art as Forum concludes five years of collective research by passing on findings and recommendations to the local academic and artistic community, to students, as well as to…

• 24 Sept. 2024, 17:00-19:00

  Forum Lectures #31: Marquis Bey

  This lecture will provide, in a sense, the story or narrative surrounding the writing and thinking of Black Trans Feminism.

• 28 May 2024, 17:00-19:00

  Forum Lectures #30 Gigi Argyropoulou

  In this talk, Gigi Argyropoulou will discuss instituting as a critical method in curating, performing and organising that bears the potential to create “transformational infrastructures” (Berlant, 2017) and critical…

• 3 May 2024, 9:00-18:00

  Quality Control: Legacies and Practices of Gatekeeping in the Arts

  Seminar.

• 30 Apr. 2024, 17:00-19:00

  Forum Lectures #29: Jackqueline Frost

  In this talk, Jackqueline Frost will establish the socio-ecological, politico-aesthetic and strictly anti-foundationalist basis of Césaire’s notion of the human, revealing his new humanism to be predicated upon a poetic…

• 2 Apr. 2024, 17:00-19:30

  Forum Lectures #28: Orit Halpern

  This talk traces the relationship between neo-liberal thought and neural networks through the work of economist Friedrich Hayek, psychologist Donald O. Hebb, neural network pioneer Frank Rosenblatt, and later the…

• 21 Mar. 2024, 9:00-13:00

  Communities of Separatism

  This seminar marks the end of the research project Communities of Separatism. Affects in and around separatist artist collectives in the Nordic region.

• 27 Feb. 2024, 17:00-19:30

  Forum Lectures #27: Luisa Lorenza Corna & Frida Sandström

  This forum Lecture follows the polyphonous model of Rivolta Femminile and consists of two joint presentations by Frida Sandström and Luisa Lorenza Corna.

• 28 Nov. 2023, 17:00-19:30

  Forum Lectures #26: Naja Dyrendom Graugaard

  In this lecture, Naja Dyrendom Graugaard will present how Kalaallit artists, SoMe actors, and meme-makers employ playfulness as a transformative way to engage with the ‘unfinished business of decolonization’.

• 31 Oct. 2023, 17:00-19:30

  Forum Lectures #25: Sarah Nagaty

  Lecture by Sarah Nagaty on The Egyptian Collective Dream.

• 26 Sept. 2023, 17:00-19:30

  Forum Lectures #24: Nafiseh Mousavi

  This lecture addresses the social imaginations of ‘camp’, as contradictory spaces of control and care associated with refugee life and forced migration, in contemporary western comics.

• 14 Sept. 2023, 13:00-16:00

  Seminar: Public service television as scene for experimentality

  Centering on work-in-progress and anecdotal presentations by artists, researchers, and practitioners in the field of television, this seminar investigates the premises of public service television as an experimental…

• 29 Aug. 2023, 17:00-19:30

  Forum Lectures #23: Nikos Papastergiadis

  In this lecture, rather the idea of cosmopolitanism, Nikos Papastergiadis will seek to reinvigorate it by examining the ways in which visual artists have explored themes associated with the cosmos.

• 30 May 2023, 17:00-19:00

  Forum Lectures #22: Clive Chijioke Nwonka, University College London

  Lecture by Clive Chijioke Nwonka, University College London.

• 24 May - 26 May 2023

  Not this time. Temporalities of ending, editing, and enduring

  This conference calls for perspectives on retrieving and renegotiating temporal aspects of artistic practices, lived lives, and knowledge production.

• 25 Apr. 2023, 17:00-19:00

  Forum Lectures #21: Kim West, Gustav Strandberg & Josefine Wikström

  Lecture by Kim West, Gustav Strandberg and Josefine Wikström about Critique of the Freedom of Art.

• 30 Mar. 2023, 17:00-19:00

  Forum Lectures #20: UFOlab

  The lecture will re-examine the artist group UFOlab's performances and interventions.

• 25 Mar. 2023, 12:00-17:00

  Seminar: Collective Intelligence, Crowd Identity & Infrastructural Aesthetics

  Kom til seminar i forbindelse med den aktuelle udstilling, Group-Think af Stine Marie Jacobsen, med titlen: Collective Intelligence, Crowd Identity & Infrastructural Aesthetics.

• 28 Feb. 2023, 17:00-19:00

  Forum Lectures #19: Nils Olsson & Imri Sandström

  In this duo-lecture (Nils Olsson and Imri Sandström) the collaborative dimensions of artistic as well as academic practices is explored in both content and form.

• 29 Nov. 2022, 17:00-19:00

  Forum Lectures #18: Louis Hartnoll

  In this lecture Louis Hartnoll will focus on the two terms – ‘dialogical art’ and ‘participatory art’. This intervention proposes to metacritically reassess how the discourse on art’s social character often relies on an…

• 25 Oct. 2022, 17:00-19:00

  Forum Lectures #17: Richard Grusin

  In this lecture Richard Grusin will explore the fruitful relatikons among arboreal and technical infrastructures.

• 27 Sept. 2022, 17:00-19:00

  Forum Lectures #16: Tina Campt

  This lecture engages some of the alternative practices of looking and viewing relations their work subverts the space of the gallery by populating it with black bodies in disruptive and transformative ways.

• 30 Aug. 2022, 17:00-19:00

  Forum Lectures #15: Julia Bryan-Wilson

  Julia Bryan-Wilson considers how patterned needlework and embellishment served as a political strategy for two artists (Philippines-born Pacita Abad and Brazilian Madalena Santos Reinbolt) whose work blurred the lines…

• 31 May 2022, 19:00-21:00

  Forum Lectures #14: Fernando Domínguez Rubio

  The Unnatural Ecologies of Modern Art

• 26 Apr. 2022, 17:00-19:00

  Forum Lectures #13: Mai Corlin Frederiksen

  Trojan Horses in the Chinese Countryside: The Bishan Commune and the Practice of Socially Engaged Art Rural China.

• 6 Apr. - 8 Apr. 2022

  Connect/Cut. Infrastructures and collective activity

  The conference Connect/Cut explores the infrastructures that mediate space, time, visibility, and access in the arts and beyond.

• 29 Mar. 2022, 17:00-19:00

  Forum Lectures #12: Kirsten Dufour & Hellen Lassen

  1970ernes feministiske organisering i billedkunsten - En samtale med billedkunstnerne Hellen Lassen og Kirsten Dufour

• 22 Feb. 2022, 17:00-19:00

  Forum Lectures #11: Christina Kiaer

  The “Love Affair” between Communists and Blacks: Racial Solidarity in the Soviet film Black Skin, 1931.

• 30 Nov. 2021, 17:00-19:00

  Forum Lectures #10: Shannon Jackson

  Time-based Art and Ecological Time.

• 26 Oct. 2021, 17:00-19:00

  Forum Lectures #9: Daniel Irrgang

  Critical Zones Study Group – Preparing a Thought Exhibition with Bruno Latour.

• 28 Sept. 2021, 17:00-19:00

  Forum Lectures #8: Marie Meier

  The Mentally Ill as Citizen Category in the Danish Welfare State: How to use Literature as a Cultural Testimony?

• 29 June 2021, 17:00-20:00

  Art as Forum in print: book series launch

  Launch of Art as Forum's new publication series Kunsten som Forum på tryk.

• 25 May 2021, 17:00-19:00

  Forum Lectures #7: David Lloyd

  Lecture by professor David Lloyd

• 25 May - 27 May 2021

  Symposium: The subject of art criticism’s universalism

  The subject of art criticism’s universalism

• 27 Apr. 2021, 17:00-19:00

  Forum Lectures #6: Denise Ferreira da Silva

  Lecture by Denise Ferreira da Silva

• 22 Mar. 2021, 17:00-19:00

  Forum Lectures #5: Hanni Kamaly

  Lecture by artist and writer Hanni Kamaly.

• 23 Feb. 2021, 17:00-19:00

  Forum Lectures #4: Linda Hilfling Ritasdatter

  This lecture by artist researcher Linda Hilfling Ritasdatter (Linnaeus University, Sweden) examines the dark sides of automation.

• 20 Jan. - 22 Jan. 2021

  Aesthetic Relations – online conference

  As we continue to be faced with a global pandemic, we have asked accomplished colleagues from across disciplines to reconsider the concept and power of aesthetic relations.

• 25 Nov. 2020, 10:30-18:00

  Symposium: The promise and compulsion of art criticism’s universalism

  This symposium is, in part, the result of an ongoing conversation about border-drawing practices and their historical and contemporary articulations.

• 24 Nov. 2020, 17:00-19:00

  Forum Lectures #3: Josefine Wikström

  Lecture by Josefine Wikström: Art, autonomy and practices of relations: A critique of performance.

• 27 Aug. - 28 Aug. 2020

  Opening conference: Art as Forum

  The research centre "Art as a Forum" organises an opening conference. Follow the event live online