The Centre for Art and the Political Imaginary is committed to interdisciplinary practice and research in the meeting between contemporary art and the future of politics. Based at two institutions of higher education in art: HDK-Valand and Kungl. Konsthögskolan, the Centre’s aim is to facilitate connections between research and education through an engagement with experimental approaches. It is the first Swedish Centre of Excellence in the field of Artistic Research.
The activities of the Centre are organized around four conceptual strands guiding the construction of innovative educational and research frameworks. Climate Imaginaries engages with radical ecological change and environmental futures. Historical Imaginaries addresses decolonial approaches to collective memory and nationalist representations, as well as non-aligned movements and intensifying globalization. Democratic Imaginaries takes its point of departure from the polarization of the public sphere and emerging forms of illiberalism. Technological Imaginaries is focused on the interactions between art and technological developments and their resulting projections of possible futures.
The Centre is co-chaired by Prof. Mick Wilson and Prof. Natasha Marie Llorens, who together with Prof. Jyoti Mistry and Dr. Axel Andersson form its steering committee.
News
- Launch: Center for Art and the Political Imaginary (CAPIm)
- Interview with Natasha Marie Llorens on Swedens first Centre of Excellence in Artistic Research
- Pressrelease: Kungl. Konsthögskolan får bidrag i Vetenskapsrådets excellenssatsning
- Text: Axel Andersson: The Coming of Age of a Discipline – Swedish Artistic Research Turning Eighteen
More information on the Centre for Art and the Political Imaginary (CAPIm) can be found here.
