Welcome to four new members of Art as Forum
Since September we have welcomed four new members of the research group: PhD scholar Xenia Pallesen and postdocs Eva la Cour, Daniel Irrgang, and Anna Meera Gaonkar. Their research will span from dissemination strategies in museums over artistic research on temporal commons and the concept of thought exhibitions to research in separatist collective organization of racialized cultural workers, amongst others.
Eva la Cour
Eva la Cour is a Danish visual artist (the Jutland Art Academy 2010) and PhD (HDK-Valand, the Faculty for Fine, Applied and Performing Arts Gothenburg University, 2022), also trained in media and visual anthropology (Freie Universität in Berlin, 2012). She will be a postdoc in Art as Forum with her project Post-future essayism: Temporal communality as epistemological strategy.
La Cour works with time-based and spatial forms of montage that alternately use analog film, video, text and display aesthetic elements. Her exhibitions and performative expositions are often geopolitically concerned with the limitations of representational discourses, and the effects of collaborative efforts and multifaceted investigative processes: in the archives of the National Museum of Denmark, at a research station in Greenland or among taxi drivers on Svalbard. In seeking methodological reorientation of liniar storylines, la Cour has particularly investigated 'live editing' as a performative and situated filmic expression and method upon terrains with colonial history for visual production.
Anna Meera Gaonkar
Anna Meera Gaonkar has been a PhD fellow at the University of Copenhagen, Department of Arts and Cultural Studies. She is defending her dissertation Feeling Sick at Home? A Cultural Study of Postmigrant Homesickness in Contemporary Denmark later this year. Her work tackles issues of migration, postmigration, affects, nationalism, and coloniality as formative contexts of art and culture and she has previously worked as a journalist and newspaper editor. In Art as Forum, she will be collaborating with Cecilie Ullerup Schmidt on the research project Communities of Separatism. Affects in and around separatist artist collectives in the Nordic region, granted by Arts Council Norway and The Danish Arts Foundation.
Daniel Irrgang
Daniel Irrgang is research associate at the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society, Berlin, where he is deputy head of the "Inequality and Digital Sovereignty" research group (Berlin University of the Arts). He holds a PhD in media studies on diagrammatics and expanded mind theories. Among other fields, his research focuses on visual depictions of information from a media and art studies perspective, HCI paradigms, exhibition concepts as well as on epistemological problems. Daniel is affiliated researcher with the centre Art as Forum at the University of Copenhagen. He has been awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship grant, with Art as Forum as host institution, starting from September 2022.
Xenia Brown Pallesen
Xenia Brown Pallesen cand.mag. in Art History at the University of Copenhagen. During her studies she has shown a profound interest in the intersections between art, technology, architecture, nature, climate and biodiversity. This interdisciplinary standpoint has created the basis for her examination of the impact of climate related art and its unique ability to touch people on a personal level thereby initiating more sustainable actions for a healthier planet. In her PhD project Inddragende formidlingspraksisser: Om fællesskab og mangfoldiggørelse af samtalen om kunst Xenia is looking into how dissemination practices of art can be used as a tool to create a deeper understanding of self, of each other and surrounding environments.
Xenia has previously participated in international student conferences in order to gain a greater insight of art historian research outside the northern region. Likewise, she co-organized in 2018 an interdisciplinary international student conference, which focused on how technology influences contemporary art and how art can play a central role in future technological developments. Thereto, she has been working at ART 2030 on the development of an Impact Strategy for UN SDGs and art related projects.