IKK Fredagssaloner - Global Entanglements

Welcome to the research cluster Global Entanglements’ salon. Global Entanglements examines the position of artistic and cultural practices within the frameworks of global and trans-local networks.

[World map] Dai Nihon yochi benran. Tenpo 5 [1834] by dockedship, CC BY 2.0

From a critical and interdisciplinary perspective, the cluster seeks to dismantle Eurocentrism and essentialist narratives. The cluster brings together senior and junior scholars in interdisciplinary exchange in reading groups, international seminars, and other research activities. At the salon, everyone is invited for a drink to hear more about the cluster and its different research projects.

Programme

14:00-14:15 Welcome and drinks

14:15-14:25 Introduction to the cluster by associate professor Gunhild Borggreen

14:30-15:40 Postdocs and PhDs Mette Højsgaard, Brenda Amaru Ibarra Olguin, Birgitte Thorsen Vilslev, Anna Weile Kjær, Sarah Samira El-Taki, Terne Nanna Thorsen and Bart Curtis Pushaw will present their research projects.

15:40-16:00 Open discussions and drinks

Sarah Samira El-Taki

PhD fellow in the Section on Visual Culture

My research project traces the development of anti-racist campaign posters from three UK-based organizations: Greater London Council (the 1980s), The Commission for Racial Equality (1990s), and Operation Black Vote (2000s). The project focuses on visual rhetoric with a particular interest in the use of analogy and political imagery as it pertains to anti-racism.

Anna Weile Kjær

PhD fellow in the Section of Art History

In my practice-based PhD project Wormholes – when times collide, I set out to develop an anachronistic curatorial method based on an exhibition series at Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art

Brenda Amaru Ibarra Olguin

PhD fellow in the Section of Theatre and Performance Studies

My PhD project examines Latinx queer feminist bodily art practices that mobilize the relational pleasures of racialized shame as a decolonial strategy through performances of disidentification.

Terne Nanna Thorsen

PhD fellow in the Section on Modern Culture

In my PhD project "Breaking and Creating - The Contemporary Iconoclasm of Islamic State", I explore and theorize the modern destruction of art and cultural heritage. I hypothesise that the destruction of cultural heritage is closely linked to its use and that the destruction of cultural heritage in Iraq and Syria by the Islamic State reflects this.

Bart Curtis Pushaw

Bart Pushaw is a historian of the art of the colonial Americas, with a particular focus on the Circumpolar North and Central America between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries. As a Postdoctoral Fellow in the international research project The Art of Nordic Colonialism: Writing Transcultural Art Histories, he is concerned with the correspondence of art and material culture between the Indigenous Arctic and the Black Atlantic.

Birgitte Thorsen Vilslev

Postdoc in the research project Feminist Emergency. Women Artists in Denmark 1960-present, with a focus on the historical influences of eco-feminism and sustainability in contemporary feminist art practices.