Academic Feelings

It Feels Like The Walls Are Caving In – A Behind-the-Scenes Episode

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 work and what matters most to them. But this particular recording took place long before the Academic Feelings podcast had fully taken shape, at a time when Rosa was testing different podcast formats and conducting conversations to research the culture of practice-based art studies. Listen to previous episodes with Ida Bencke to hear how this early conversation evolved into the final recordings.   About: Ida Bencke is an art curator and PhD Fellow at The University of Copenhagen and part of the projects Hosting Lands and Laboratory for Aesthetics and Ecology. She is also part of the research group Oikos and has taken part in the educational programme DAAS (Decolonizing Art and Architecture Studies). Links to the projects: https://www.labae.org [https://www.labae.org/] https://hostinglands.com [https://hostinglands.com/] https://artsandculturalstudies.ku.dk/research/oikos/ [https://artsandculturalstudies.ku.dk/research/oikos/] https://www.decolonizing.ps/site/daas-in-sharjah/ The artist mentioned in the episode: Cassie Thornton https://feministeconomicsdepartment.com [https://feministeconomicsdepartment.com/] About: Academic Feelings is a podcast-as-an-artwork devoted to long-form conversations with artists and curators about art, academia, and feelings. It is created by artist Rosa Marie Frang for PASS (Center for Practice-Based Art Studies) at the University of Copenhagen and supported by the Novo Nordisk Foundation. Do you want to help the podcast? Give the answering machine a call and share your experience with art, academia and feelings <3! Call +45 3532 0247

Eagles & Seagulls

"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 cultural products—as if they are placed behind transparent glass or smooth plastic shielding—is because they are trying to satisfy the logics of capitalist career structures. In an attempt to break the “glass surface,” Rosa announces that she will begin publishing her raw research interviews—the unpolished, "low-quality" conversations that are normally kept strictly behind the scenes. Academic Feelings is a podcast artwork about the emotional lives of artists, curators, and researchers, created by artist Rosa Marie Frang for PASS, Center for Practice-based Art Studies, at the University of Copenhagen. Supported by the Novo Nordisk Foundation. If you have experiences relating to the episode, we hope you will share them with the Academic Feelings answering machine, call +45-3532-0247

Writing with Emotions & the Question of Trust | Ida Bencke | Part Three

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 shape new ways to work, write, and think together? Academic Feelings is a podcast artwork about the emotional lives of artists, curators and researchers, created by artist Rosa Marie Frang, for PASS, Center for Practice-based Art Studies, at The University of Copenhagen. Supported by The Novo Nordisk Foundation.

Is Writing with Emotions Dangerous? | Ida Bencke | Part Two

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 the attention economy.   Ida Bencke is an Art Curator and PhD Fellow at The University of Copenhagen and part of these projects Hosting Lands and Laboratory for Aesthetics and Ecology. She is also part of the research group Oikos and last year, she took part in the educational programme DAAS (Decolonizing Art and Architecture Studies). If you have any thoughts or comments – big or small, deep or shallow - you can call the Academic Feelings answering machine: 0045-3532-0247 Academic Feelings is a podcast artwork by: host, concept, research, sound technique, recording, editing, writing, graphics, and music Rosa Marie Frang. Advice and assistance Brit Pliestik Jensen. Music engineering Timmy Olivia Thyge Johansen. Cover photo Karen Rosetzsky. Consultants Anne Julie Arnfred and Mikkel Bogh. Supported by PASS, Centre for Practice-based Art Studies, The University of Copenhagen, and The Novo Nordisk Foundation.

Writing with Emotions & the Inconvenience of Other People | Ida Bencke | Part One

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 thoughts or comments – big or small - you are welcome to give the Academic Feelings answering Machine a call: 0045-3532-0247  Links to the projects mentioned in the episode: Hosting Lands: https://hostinglands.com/ [https://hostinglands.com/] Hosting Lands is created by Laboratory for Aesthetics and Ecology: https://www.labae.org/about [https://www.labae.org/about] in collaboration - amongst many others - with På Den Anden Side: https://pdas.dk [https://pdas.dk/] Ida Bencke is part of the research group Oikos:  https://artsandculturalstudies.ku.dk/research/oikos/ [https://artsandculturalstudies.ku.dk/research/oikos/] and last year, she took part in the educational programme DAAS (Decolonizing Art and Architecture Studies) https://www.decolonizing.ps/site/daas-in-sharjah/ [https://www.decolonizing.ps/site/daas-in-sharjah/] Literature mentioned: On the Inconvenience of Other People, by Lauren Berlant. Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective, by Donna Haraway. Credits: oost, concept, research, sound technique, recording, editing, writing, graphics, and music by Rosa Marie Frang. Advice and assistance by Brit Pliestik Jensen. Music engineering by Timmy Olivia Thyge Johansen. Cover photo by Karen Rosetzsky. Consultants: Anne Julie Arnfred and Mikkel Bogh. Supported by PASS, Centre for Practice-based Art Studies, at the University of Copenhagen, and the Novo Nordisk Foundation.