Art & Health – Research Salon

The Art & Health Cluster invites you to a public salon. The event will feature presentations by Postdocs Anne Kølbæk Iversen and Svala Vagnsdatter Andersen. Non-alcoholic beverages and light refreshments will be served.

Programme

A conversation between visual artist Julie Falk and Postdoc Anne Kølbæk Iversen

This conversation will introduce Falk’s practice and how she engages in outsourcing and activating the materials and structures at hand as a method to produce work. The conversation will revolve around questions of temporality and productivity related to experiences of chronic illness through the notions of ‘crip time’ and the artist as a mediator of conditions for her work. 

“Anality and laughter,” a presentation by Postdoc Svala Vagnsdatter Andersen

A poetics of anality traces the meanings of openings, passages, and gateways to detach masculinity and masculinity studies from a phallic logic of hardness and visual ejaculatory aesthetics. Instead, this analytical approach to the complexity of holes points towards an embodied porosity and an all-inclusive masculinity which does not define itself exclusively as that which is not-. The expansion of the (significance of the) hole seems to be facing a specific, yet elusive challenge: laughter. Mainstream visual culture presents the topic of anality as excessively funny. Thus an inevitable companion to anality studies, laughter is (seriously) one key to understanding holey masculinity. Through brief encounters with visual artworks, a tentative displacement from phallic to anal significance is outlined, laughter will prove itself to be a body fluid, and the Gloryhole emerges as an emblematic figure in phallic-anal research. This is going to be a whole lotta fun.

Bios

Anne Kølbæk Iversen holds a PhD in Aesthetics & Culture from Aarhus University and is currently affiliated with the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies at the University of Copenhagen and O-Overgaden – Institute of Contemporary Art conducting the research project Crip Time: Art of Impairment, Withdrawal, and Impatience, funded by the New Carlsberg Foundation. 

Julie Falk holds an MFA from Malmö Art Academy. She has recently had solo and group exhibitions at venues including Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen (2024), O-Overgaden, Copenhagen (2024) All all all, Copenhagen (2023), Galleri Susanne Ottesen, Copenhagen (2021), and KØS Museum for kunst i det offentlige rum, Køge (2018). In 2023 she received Anne Marie Carl Nielsen’s talent prize for sculptors. 

Svala Vagnsdatter Andersen is a Postdoc in the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies collaborating with Rune Gade on the Novo Nordisk Investigator Grant project “Metamorphosing Masculinities” 2024-28.