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

This research symposium, an associated initiative of CAPIm, comprises a set of 10 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 and guest 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 also include 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) and  Leone Contini (NABA). 

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

10 November, Monday 12:00-14:00

Strand 1. Leone Contini / Opp. Prof. Elena Raviola / Chair: Dr. Vincenzo Estremo  (Glasshouse) 
A project that seeks to counter-narrate the imaginaries plants and other organisms that are understood to be, or are constructed as,  invasive/alien/“nonnative” etc. 

Strand 2. Maria Jaber/ Opp. Prof. Johan Redström/ Chair: Prof. Mick Wilson (PhD Seminar Room) 
‘Syrian Art in Exile’ is a research and development project that seeks to develop a curated digital network platform that documents the lives and work of Syrian artists in exile since 2011.  

10 November, Monday 15:00-17:00 

Strand 1. Emiliano Battista/ Opp. Dr. Susan Halvey/ Chair: Prof. Mick Wilson (Glasshouse) 
A comparative study that seeks to provide systematic and reliable information about, and insight into, the actual practices and experiences of PhD holders, candidates, and supervisors of 3rd cycle programs in the arts in Sweden and Flanders. 

Strand 2. Ali Karami/ Opp. Dr. Karin Peterson / Chair: Prof. Elena Raviola (PhD Seminar Room) 
A design and pedagogy research project that seeks to explore a model of human creativity in a new educational paradigm for design that also takes account of AI developments in design education

10 November, Monday 17:30-18:30

Keynote: Dr. Jonas Staal 
Venue: The Glasshouse at HDK-Valand

11 November, Tuesday 09:30-11:30

A research project in contemporary art practice that examines the role of text in art works, especially focussed in texts without clear authorial anchorage and that primarily operate in the public domain.  
 
Strand 2. Vladislav Shapolivov / Opp. Dr. Jonas Staal / Chair: Dr. Cathryn Klasto (PhD Seminar Room) 
The research explores the potential for a discourse on world peace within an exhibitionary framework, departing from a historical case of the NATO-run traveling exhibition “Caravan of Peace” (1952–1970) conceived as a convoy of specially designed trucks journeying across Europe. 

11 November, Tuesday 12:00-14:00 

Strand 1. Monika Dorniak / Opp. To be confirmed / Chair: Dr. D. Jewesbury (Glasshouse) 
This artistic research project critically examines the interrelations between non-human archives of memory, war-related intergenerational trauma, and the possibility of restorative interspecies collaboration within the space ofcontemporary artistic practices. 
 
Strand 2. Andris Brinkmanis / Opp. Dr. Glenn Loughran / Chair: Prof. Mick Wilson (PhD Seminar Room) 
Pedagogies of Care is a practice-based, interdisciplinary doctoral research project exploring how collective, emancipatory, and alternative pedagogies can be activated through curatorial and artistic means.  

11 November, Tuesday 14:30-16:30

Strand 1. Maria Karpushina / Opp. Dr. Olja Triaška Stefanović / Chair: Prof. Mick Wilson (Glasshouse) 
A research project at the intersection of artistic research and museological interventions with a particular focus on decolonial strategies and the museum exhibition setup as a narrative space. 
 
Strand 2. Andrea Steves / Opp. Dr. Daniel Jewesbury / Chair: Dr. Vincenzo Estremo (PhD Seminar Room) 
This research project examines the potential of ”post-capitalist” artistic practices across diverse geographical and cultural contexts, with case studies of alternative economic models in creative production building upon an existing arc of exhibition and publication practice  including Museum of Capitalism (Inventory Press, 2017; 2019)  

11 November, Tuesday 17:00-18:00

Closing Presentations: Dr. Susan Halvey.
Venue: The Glasshouse at HDK-Valand

This is an associated initiative of CAPIm.