Quarterly Reports: Beyond business-as-usual (Symposium)

This research symposium, an associated initiative of CAPIm, comprises a set of 7 doctoral research projects being presented as the first year of study is coming to an end. This is primarily a research education event for PhD researchers from NABA Milan and Bremen who are studying through the artistic practices PhD syllabus at HDK-Valand, University of Gothenburg. The disciplines represented in the event include contemporary art, curating, pedagogy and design. 

The symposium keynote will be provided by one of CAPIm’s guest senior researcher, the internationally celebrated artist, Jonas Staal. Special guest speakers: Jonas Staal and Susan Halvey.  

Presenters include: Andrea Steves (NABA/ HDK-Valand), Andris Brinkmans (NABA/ HDK-Valand), Ali Karami (NABA/ HDK-Valand), Egemen Demirci (Bremen/ HDK-Valand), Emiliano Battista (VUB / HDK-Valand), Maria Jaber (NABA/ HDK-Valand), Vladislav Shapovalov (NABA/ HDK-Valand), Monika Dorniak (Bremen/ HDK-Valand), Maria Karpushina (Bremen/ HDK-Valand) 

• Artistic strategies after capitalism: How do artists imagine art practice beyond capitalism? 

• From NATO’s “Caravan of Peace” (1952–1970): Discourse on world peace within an exhibitionary framework in the post-Cold War continuum. 

• Syrian Art in Exile: Building a platform for cross-cultural engagement across the diaspora.

• Pedagogies of Care: What are the educational, pedagogical and artistic strategies and resources through which we can still learn collectively?  

• AI algorithms, fashion design and teaching for creativity. 

• The Anonymous Text: Strategies of withdrawal and negative participation in public works. 

• Interspecies reflections on intergenerational trauma in relation to WWII. 

• Altering Neutrality: Museum discourse and narrators without names.

This is primarily an in-person event. However, some parts of the programme will be streamed online. 

Detailed programme posted 1 October 2025.  

For in person or online particpation, please book a place via this link by 31 October 2025.

This is an associated initiative of CAPIm.