Courses and events

Spring 2026

5 February Lunch and seminar for the IKK Practice-based PhD group
18 February Workshop on media handling and research communication in collaboration with the University of Copenhagen's communications department
19 February Implications: Bruno Latour, Facing Gaia: Eight Lectures on the New Climatic Regime
21 February – 1 March Modes of Organizing. Study trip to Ghana.
19 March Implications: Eduardo Kohn,  How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Human
9 April Lunch and seminar for the IKK Practice-based PhD group
7 May Implications: Matthew Fuller & Eyal Weizman, Investigative Aesthetics: Conflicts and Commons in the Politics of Truth
13 May Workshop with Charles Esche
21 May Lunch and seminar for the IKK Practice-based PhD group

Past activities

Autumn 2025

22-26 September Intensive Residency PhD Training Course
9 October Implications: Fred Moten: In the Break. The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition (2003) 
6 November Implications: Achille Mbembe: Out of the Dark Night. Essays on Decolonization (2021) 
11 December Implications: Françoise Vergès: A Programme of Absolute Disorder. Decolonizing the Museum (2023)

Spring 2025

25 February Writing Art Histories
26 February Saidiya Hartman, Lose your Mother, 2007
9 April Saidiya Hartman, Wayward Lives, 2019
28 April Future Ancestry - Impactful Storytelling in the Visual Arts
6 May Writing Art Histories
11 June Discussion with Saidiya Hartman
18 June Writing Art Histories

Autumn 2024

Spring 2024

Autumn 2023

In addition to the research training activities, the center will host

  • Alumni network activities with stakeholders, researchers, artists, and professionals targeting common themes with societal impact and relevance for policy making
  • Workshops with hands-on approaches to practice-based methodologies and applied art historical knowledge in collaboration between researchers, artists, and professionals
  • A forum for PhD supervisors
  • A web platform offering a one-stop access to Danish practice-based art studies for national and international stakeholders
  • A publication series that connects academic, curatorial, and artistic practice-based research