The Curatorial Program for Research (CPR) is pleased to announce its open call for curators to participate in CPR 2026: (Self)Organization in North Africa. Participating curators will travel to the North African region, including Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco. CPR’s 10th fully-funded research program will take place from May 3–26, 2026.
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This is an associated initiative of CAPIm.

January 2026-January 2027 | Online

Dr. Kerry Guinan invites researchers, practitioners, and students to participate in a recurring online research seminar, ‘The Politics and Aesthetics of Hyper-Scales’, to support and expand upon her postdoctoral project within CAPim. The project explores how perceptions of scale structure and limit political imaginaries, aiming to develop artistic methodologies that can potentially reorganise spatio-temporal experience, and analysing how such strategies may affect ethico-political sensibilities of responsibility, causality, and agency

Building upon this investigation, this seminar series will examine a vast range of topics that challenge anthro-phenomenal projections of space and time, expanding critical thought to the reach of cosmic and planetary politics and probing the potential political implications of, for instance, microbial ecologies and subatomic processes. It will address the politics of timescales ranging from the digitally instant to the geologically incremental, while questioning the very structuring of time and space by capitalist and colonial regimes.
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Facilitated by: Kerry Guinan

11 February, 2026 | Konstakademien, Stockholm

This series of talks takes its guiding metaphor from The Looking Glass in Lewis Carroll’s novel of the same name: a portal between two worlds, each appearing slightly estranged or surreal from the vantage point of the other. In this programme, the two “worlds” are those of higher art education and contemporary artistic practice, each shaped by its own institutional histories, epistemologies, and modes of cultural production. 

In The Looking-Glass Dialogues, two practitioners meet through this metaphorical mirror to examine the problems, frictions, and potentials they encounter within artistic research.  
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Facilitated by: Natasha Marie Llorens, Sam Hultin and Magnus Bärtås 

25 February-30 June, 2026 | Online

In this course the student will engage with various modes of writing pertaining to artistic research and its connected fields. The course consists of text seminars; lectures; collaborative and individual writing exercises; and two workshops (on artistic research publishing and on publication production processes). Thematically it is oriented around questions of method, process, ethics and aesthetics, specifically considering aspects of authorship and relations between languages, texts and meaning–matter. There will be a focus on the role and possibilities of writing in relation to the student’s own research project and the different artistic field(s) and disciplines of the particpants.
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Facilitated by: Khashayar Naderehvandi, Mick Wilson and Kerry Guinan 

27-29 April, 2026 | Stockholm

Emerging from the ongoing collaboration between Stefano Harney, Professor of Transversal Aesthetics at KHM Cologne, and Dr. Valentina Desideri, a Researcher at CAPIm, this course considers the relation between affordances and study, as well as their relationship to study and the organization of the senses.

For Desideri and Harney, the basic premise is that study is a way to attune to affordances, and affordances are a way to think about our being outside of ‘inter-personal relations’. Rather than naming a relation between two bodies, affordances constitute the very shifting surfaces of what might be called “body” and thus allow us to think without relations. Immersed in a field of offerings (existing, possible, and virtual ones), we may think about study as a practice of tuning in with affordances, of sensing the yet unattended offerings that may host ways of existing that would not be thinkable or possible otherwise.
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Facilitated by: Stefano Harney and Valentina Desideri

9 June - 28 August | Online

This summer course has been conceived as an introductory course that addresses how contemporary arts (includes visual arts photography, film, and literature) interact or otherwise connect with the question of political imaginaries. 

The student is introduced to key themes through the study of concrete examples. The course adopts an inquiry-based approach. By considering a range of situations where questions of art and questions of politics intersect, we seek to gradually build a wider model or structural account of relations between these. The course is therefore not premised on a pre-resolved theory of “art and politics”. Instead, it provides a survey of instances where themes and questions of politics and the political, and of art and the aesthetic, intersect. Among the concepts tested in this inquiry-based approach is that of the political imaginary. However, as an associated initiative of CAPIm the course is driven by an open research agenda, rather than a resolved theoretical position. 
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Facilitated by: Seda Yildiz, Kerry Guinan, Michele Masucci and Prof. Mick Wilson 

2 March, 2026 | Online

This is the second seminar with a focus on the archival as a research construct in current artistic research and related areas. The goal of the series is to consider the figure of the archive as it functions in a range of current artistic research projects and the different political readings of this figure within these research undertakings. 

The archive has been a central figure and pre-occupation over several decades for both the organizational infrastructure and the practical production of contemporary art. Indeed, it might be argued that the archive has become the enabling and the limiting horizon of many cultural practices. It often seems that all forms of collection, all forms of memory work, and all forms of programme are only conceivable through some appeal to the figure of the archive.
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Facilitated by: Mick Wilson