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PARSE - Platform for Artistic Research Sweden

PARSE is an international artistic research publishing platform and biennial conference.

PARSE is an international artistic research publishing platform and biennial conference based in the Artistic Faculty at University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Its purpose is to bring interdisciplinary art practices and researchers from across disciplines into dialogue through shared enquiry.

14/08/2025

Chaotic Degrowth via Artistic Practices with Sean Roy Parker and Alexandra Papademetriou

Pony Books, Tunnbindaregatan 19, 417 04 Göteborg
Friday 26th September 2025
Doors 18:00 | Readings begin 18:30

Join us for an evening exploring urgent creative methodologies in the climate crisis through the lens of degrowth with Sean Roy Parker and Alexandra Papademetriou.

Emerging from multiple streams of ecological and social thought, degrowth signifies a critique of the narrative of perpetual economic growth, and of the centering of growth as a social objective.* Moreover, degrowth exposes a fundamental contradiction in the dominant capitalist mode: Infinite growth on a planet with finite resources. In a world addicted to production and prosperity, how can artists bring new strategies that centre well-being, care and collectivity into existence while being brutalised by the system they are wilfully failing? How do we reconceptualise artistic labour, production, and success in a degrowth context?

The evening begins with Sean Roy Parker reading excerpts from his debut poetry collection stewarding (2024, Monitor Books), followed by a critical discussion led by Papademetriou examining how enacting practical degrowth principles can reshape our understandings of artistic practice, as detailed in her ongoing project, The Degrowth Toolbox for Artistic Practices, 2021-.*Paraphrased from Degrowth, A Vocabulary for a New Era, Routledge, 2015 by Giacomo D'Alisa, Federico Demaria, Giorgos Kallis. More info at degrowthtoolbox.net

Copies of stewarding (Parker) and Like Roots Splitting Stone (Papademetriou) will be available to purchase.

Sean Roy Parker is a visual artist, writer and landworker from Kent, UK. Until its closure, he was a core member of The Field, an experimental artist-run living project in an ex-Steiner School building in Derbyshire, East Midlands. He was a 2023 Wysing Arts Centre resident, and in 2024 he received a Paul Hamlyn Foundation Visual Artist Award. His debut collection stewarding was published by Monitor Books, London.

Alexandra Papademetriou is an artist and designer from Athens, Greece, currently based in Gothenburg, Sweden. She earned her MFA in Fine Art from HDK-Valand and her post-master from the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm. Using shared learning as method, she aims to facilitate interdisciplinary dialogues and collaborations; exploring how artistic practices can provide the testing ground for environmental and social change.

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image: 𝘓𝘦𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘪𝘭, Alexandra Papademetriou 2025 © Laura Selby

12/08/2025

Stewardship and Structures: Enacting, Regenerating and Maintaining
with Andreas Engman, Sean Roy Parker & Eva Rowson

Sept 24 at LjurhallaFabriken, Vårgårda
11:00-17:00

This event explores the intimate politics of care through the methodology of world building—physical structures that (are yet to) exist and maintain, material lifecycle systems, and communal distribution of responsibility. Drawing from three artists’ shared politic that we are held in webs of interdependence with our localities, environments and communities, together we will investigate how artistic practices can embody disruption, embrace slowness, practice thrift, and foster deep connection.

Through two distinct yet synergetic presentations, we examine how critical frameworks—concrete, chaotic and conceptual—can transform perceived barriers into foundations for reshaping our relationship with the world during a polycrisis.

All welcome! A free bus is arranged to depart from outside Akademin Valand, Vasagatan 50 at 10:00 on September 24 in order to arrive at Ljurhallafabriken for 11:00, returning to Gothenburg for 18:00.

Vegan lunch will be provided.

The event is free- but to secure a place registration is required (we have limited spaces on the bus and need to know how many are coming for the food planning and prep).

Visit https://parsejournal.com/event/stewardship-and-structures/ for more details

image: (I) Sean Roy Parker, page from “stewarding”, Monitor Books 2024, (II) Eva Rowson, ventilation hole in concrete wall, Bergen Kjøtt, Norway, 2023 (background) Nathan Clydesdale, LjurhallaFabriken surrounds, 2025.

04/08/2025

Featured articles for August 2025, chosen by Tom Cubbin, Senior Lecturer in design studies, HDK-Valand Campus Steneby and member of the PARSE Working Group.⁠

This month’s selected articles explore how artistic and curatorial practice mediate the complexities of faith, violence, and secular experience across time, space, and cultural contexts. From medieval devotional tools to post-9/11 aesthetics, and from ecological peace activism to spiritual resistance in contemporary practice, the contributions trace how art practices become vessels for belief, affect, and critique.

Visit the PARSE homepage https://parsejournal.com/ to reach the articles⁠
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21/07/2025

Prompt: Intimacy vs. Property, Ecologies of Dissemination

This prompt has been contributed by Andrea Francke who proposes to revisit the “infectious concepts” of property and sovereignty. She writes, “I’m annoyed by radical structures that reify the idea of property as the way to think about our relations to each other and the world.” Instead, she calls for the courage to pay attention to the actual ways in which we exist with each other, what she calls “the intimacy of interdependency”.

Visit https://parsejournal.com/article/reuse-prompts/ -vs-property to reach the prompt in full

17/07/2025

Prompt: Quasi Licence, Ecologies of Dissemination

In the prompt Quasi Licence, Gabriela Méndez Cota stresses that we don’t need more licences but instead need to better articulate the power dynamics that escape any licence for each specific project. Cota suggests working with quasi licences that include a concept of trust, good will or good faith, in the sense of a commitment to dialogue and reflection around the meaning, or the situated ethical and political implications, of each reuse project, considering its specific aims and procedures.

Visit https://parsejournal.com/article/reuse-prompts/ -licence to reach the prompt in full

14/07/2025

Prompt: Never Yours to Begin With, Ecologies of Dissemination

In the prompt: Never Yours to Begin With Marloes de Valk addresses CC4r’s universal claim of disappropriation that risks creating the same terra nullius as universal openness does. She prompts the reader with a visual collage and the question how we can grow stronger together while surviving within late capitalist economies.

Visit https://parsejournal.com/article/reuse-prompts/ -yours-to-begin-with to reach the prompt in full

10/07/2025

Prompt: Spaces for Discomfort – Recognition, Ecologies of Dissemination

In this prompt, which is based on the public conversation “First Times Do Not Exist” with artist and curator Nkule Mabaso, the editors ask how to deal with discomfort when encounters and inspirations are not formally acknowledged. An artistic book Nkule (co-)produced was the crucial inspiration for another peer’s work, but despite the shared understanding of the politics of recognition, this act of reuse was not formally credited. In this conversation, Nkule insists on the importance and the willingness to take time and be in conversation to acknowledge and sit with this space of discomfort, so the tensions can become tangible and be addressed together rather than looking for punitive gestures or corrective quick fixes.

Visit https://parsejournal.com/article/reuse-prompts/ -for-discomfort-recognition to reach the prompt in full

07/07/2025

Prompt: Spaces for discomfort – Who will be paying the price?, Ecologies of Dissemination

Jennifer Hayashida together with colleague and peer Ram Krishna Ranjan, address the uncomfortable dilemma that copyright is a construct historically linked to colonialism, empire and racial capital. Understanding that the legal framework of copyright is still informed by colonial practices, the struggle for people in marginal spaces means to fight that framework while also having a recourse in it, since it provides some sort of legal protection in the face “of a machine that eats everything”, as Jen says. The resulting prompt therefore asks: how to build solidarity around dismantling colonial frameworks such as copyright?

Visit https://parsejournal.com/article/reuse-prompts/ -for-discomfort-paying-price to reach the prompt in full

03/07/2025

Some Like it Hot⁠
The 6th biennial PARSE conference (November 12-14, 2025) hosted by the Artistic Faculty at the University of Gothenburg.⁠

with confirmed plenary speakers:
-fields harrington
-Hsuan Hsu
-Marina Otero Verzier
-Sara Sassanelli

Full contributor list available shortly.

Visit https://parsejournal.com/event/some-like-it-hot/ for more details

30/06/2025

Prompt: Spaces for discomfort – Honesty, Ecologies of Dissemination

In this prompt, Winnie Soon asks a series of questions that can help pay attention to the feelings and insecurities involved in making work public. They ask to pause for a moment and double check which are the right conditions for sharing or not sharing. Making space to feel and acknowledge potential discomfort before releasing a work, means also making the implications of reuse imaginable. Could such frank and courageous articulations of what is at stake contribute to a practice of reuse in solidarity?

Visit https://parsejournal.com/article/reuse-prompts/ -for-discomfort-honesty to reach the prompt in full

27/06/2025

The Reuse Prompts section of the issue Ecologies of Dissemination contain a set of polyvocal provocations that address universalisms in Free Culture and Open Access. These prompts were originally commissioned for the work session “Revisit Reuse”, then partly rewritten to make them relevant to multiple contexts. They point towards potential gaps in the ways we practise reuse and purposefully aim to trigger the reader to consider a specific angle. The prompts in this section take many forms and shapes, from questions to games, from scores to mixtapes, drawings, diagrams, collages and letters. They invite a response, and act as devices to make something happen.

The prompt: Collective Agreements takes on Gary Hall’s blogpost “Experimenting with Copyright Licences" in which he ponders what the right licence would be for an experimental and collectively written book he is involved in. Comparing the Open Content licence “Creative Commons (CC)” with “Collective Conditions for Reuse (CC4r)“, he argues that both propositions might put too much agency with individual (human) users, and therefore contribute to individuating processes rather than advocating for collective agreements and foster reuse as a relational practice.

Visit https://parsejournal.com/article/reuse-prompts/ -agreements to reach the prompt in full

24/06/2025

New issue: #21 Ecologies of Dissemination
Editors: Femke Snelting and Eva Weinmayr

This issue of PARSE Journal starts from the tangled and mesmerising fabric of collective artistic practices, particularly from the frictions that keep coming up when reusing work that was made by others.

Ecologies of Dissemination is for anyone who engages in cultural production: for those who practise through citations, appropriations, referencing, fan-fiction, piracy and other forms of reuse; for those who recognise the tensions that emerge when the conviction that cultural work is collectively produced and owned is brought in conversation with power asymmetries, inequities and appropriative moves grounded in intersecting forms of oppression. As such, the issue highlights the need for solidarity in sharing and reusing work and proposes forms of reuse that strengthen modes of collective practice.

Issue contents:

Reuse Prompts are games, scores, mixtapes, drawings, diagrams, collages, and letters proposed by Erri Ammonita, Gabriela Méndez Cota, Séverine Dusollier, Andrea Francke, Gary Hall, Jennifer Hayashida, Cathryn Klasto, Nkule Mabaso, Nicolas Malevé, C. Thi Nguyen, Peggy Pierrot, Dubravka Sekulić, Femke Snelting, Winnie Soon, Marloes de Valk, Eva Weinmayr, Stephen Wright

Reuse Cases narrate moments where conflicts or dissensus arise around sharing and reuse in collective practice.

Transcripts share conversations with Séverine Dusollier and Jennifer Hayashida

Digging Deeper contains key texts and podcasts for further reading and listening

Questions (no answers) warm up collaborative practice

Project Nodes navigate the layered map of relationships and affinities between events, people, and concepts

Practice Documents range from manifestos, manuals, to codes of conduct and licenses to spark new methods and practices

https://parsejournal.com/journal/ -of-dissemination

image: Flo*Souad Benaddi "Sitting on Reuse", at Revisit Reuse, Brussels 1-4 May 2024.

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