Academic Feelings

Are today's institutions merely empty brick walls, primarily sustained by permanent bullshit* positions and the exploitation of an endless supply of temporaries? Are they just leftover façades from a time when the values of the welfare state – equal access to, and genuine respect for, art, knowledge, and care – were still at the core of society? Or are state-supported art, media, and educational i...

There is no distinction between life and art for artist, organizer, and filmmaker Joen Vedel. Being affected by and responding to interruptions—both those coming from the wider world and those unfolding in his personal life—is central to his artistic practice and to the practice-based PhD he recently completed at the Trondheim Academy of Fine Arts in Norway. Weaving together conversations recorded...

Usually, the pre-interviews conducted before the official interviews are kept behind the scenes—but this episode is different. Listen in as host Rosa Marie Frang calls art curator and practice-based PhD fellow Ida Bencke for the very first time, offering a glimpse into how knowledge and feelings emerge through the conversation. In Academic Feelings, pre-interviews are used to explore the guest’s w...

"It’s NOT eagles… motherfucker! It’s seagulls!!!" What begins as a simple linguistic slip on a windy rooftop serves as a gateway into a one-take recording about how the feeling of "being stupid" also carries a deep sense of loneliness. In this episode of Academic Feelings, Danish artist and host Rosa Marie Frang wonders whether the sense of alienated loneliness she experiences when encountering cu...

In this third and final conversation with curator and PhD fellow Ida Bencke, we talk about trust — in ourselves and in each other — and what it takes to share emotions in academic and artistic work. The conversation moves through self-esteem, shame, privilege, and the craving for more supportive and less extractive ways of being in academia and the art world. How can trust and shared vulnerability...

Can writing with emotions be risky in academia? And if so, for whom? In this second part of the conversation with PhD fellow and curator Ida Bencke, Academic Feelings explores vulnerability, power, and the absence of infrastructure for collective care and trust. Host Rosa Marie Frang and Ida unpack emotional honesty as a form of resistance—and discuss the risk of turning feelings into a commodity...

In this episode of Academic Feelings, host Rosa Marie Frang sits down with art curator and PhD fellow Ida Bencke for a conversation about writing with emotions. Recorded in a living room rather than a studio, the conversation explores Practice-based Art Research, collaboration, discomfort, and what the many and often unseen feelings behind academic and curatorial work can teach us. If you have any...

Unfolding as an audio essay, host and artist Rosa Marie Frang maps her attempt at navigating between anxiety, vulnerability, and institutional structures while creating a podcast artwork about Practice-based Art Studies. Using lived experience as a method, she reflects on the politics of feelings, the courage to speak when it feels uncool to do so, and the power of feeling comfortable. The episode...

  What does it mean to think, make, and feel with art inside today’s universities? Academic Feelings is a podcast created as an artwork for the Centre for Practice-based Art Studies (PASS) at the University of Copenhagen and hosted by artist Rosa Marie Frang.   Entering academia as an outsider, Rosa reflects on her encounters with an environments marked by exceptional commitment, as well as by str...