PARSE - Platform for Artistic Research Sweden, Gothenburg (2025)

05/12/2025

Convening on the Land:
Artistic Practices of Indigenous Placemaking

Marit-Shirin Carolasdotter, Sandi Hilal, Geir Tore Holm, Lisa Nyberg & Katarina Pirak Sikku

This contribution presents a series of artistic practices that reflect different aspects of indigenous placemaking. Common among several indigenous cultures is a relationship to land based on principles of reciprocity, where giving and taking is a mutually beneficial practice. This challenges many Western cultures’ tendency to mainly consider land from a utilitarian perspective, prioritising extraction for shorter-term economic gains over more long-lasting values like connection, co-habitation and co-existence. Centring indigenous research, the aim of the panel was to examine the intricacies of placemaking based on principles of relationality and reciprocity. How can we re-think our relationship to land through the practices of art, design and architecture?

Keywords: Sustainability; placemaking; indigenous knowledge; reciprocity; place-specific art

https://parsejournal.com/article/convening-on-the-land/
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03/12/2025

Grito transhemisférico: remediación de Juracán // Transhemispheric Call: Hurricane Remediation

Luis Berríos Negrón, William Cepeda Román, Karla Claudio, Omar Monzón Carmona, Juliann Rosado Pagán, and Raquel Torres Arzola
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This sound work debriefs the public event "Hurricane Remediation" convened by Luis Berríos Negrón for from the 2024 UmArts/VR Hurricanes and Scaffoldings conference. It opens with "El Cacique," a conch shell piece by Puerto Rican musician Dr. William Cepeda Román, layered with field recordings from Rio Maricao Forest Nature Reserve—a biosphere devastated by 2017's hurricanes Irma and María. The recording by conservation biologist Omar Monzón Carmona captures native bird species, while voices from conference participants (marine biologist Juliann Rosado Pagán, curator Raquel Torres Arzola, and artist Karla Claudio) weave through the soundscape.⁠
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The work reenacts the presentations from "Hurricane Remediation," as transhemispheric repositionings of the word "hurricane"—derived from Juracán, a force wielded by the Indigenous Taíno divinity of Guabancex—within its ancestral and colonial contexts. This challenges Nora Khan's use of "hurricane" in her essay "Towards a Poetics..." as merely "a sublime metaphor" for the AI cataclysm. Instead, the authors present Juracán as a thermodynamic portal to values that engage environmental co-inhabitancy and address how colonial memory drives global warming's hemispheric injustices. "Hurricane" is not simply Western symbolic language but an ancestral form that now heightens unresolved trauma. With that in mind, the soundwork asks: sublime to whom?⁠

Keywords: hurricane, climate injustice, Indigenous mythology, environmental art, nature conservation

https://parsejournal.com/article/grito-transhemisferico/

image: Carlos Raquel Rivera, Huracán del norte, 1955, linoleum, collection of the Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña

01/12/2025

Waves of Movement Through
Suspension Then
Release

by Ameena Aljerman Alali

Since documented history was and still is viewed mainly as autonomous, this essay attempts to challenge history’s formal, disciplined approach with a narrative from the history of enslaved people rather than viewing slavery as an isolated event. Indian Ocean slavery has not been documented as much as Atlantic slavery history, which has led to a gap within the histories of the Persian/Arabian Gulf countries. This essay explicitly examines my own family history as an artist, where the interest in documenting such history was to find ways to relate to and understand the afterlife of slavery. I raise questions regarding the reflection on the remembrance and presentation of enslaved peoples’ histories as part of a process of amendment and as an attempt to fill the gaps in understanding history and the socio-political positioning of Afro-Emiratis. The essay unfolds with its suspension, and then release, in three main narratives that took place in the last century, titled “Fairuz”, “Dalma”, and “Zar”. The methodology is based on interweaving narratives, events, and Afro-Emiratis’ heritage into a stepping stone to document and present unspoken histories.

keywords: Indian Ocean Slavery, Afro-Emiratis, Historical Narrative, Unspoken History, Persian/Arabian Gulf, Afterlife of Slavery, Memory and Remembrance, Socio-Political Positioning, Oral History, Narrative Weaving

https://parsejournal.com/article/waves-of-movement-through-suspensionthenrelease/

11/11/2025

PARSE Issue 22: Hurricanes and Scaffolding launch event

Old Hotel, Valand Vasagatan 50
Wednesday 12 November
17:00- 18:30

Welcome to a feeding for all our senses! We call on you to join our table and celebrate the release of our issue of PARSE. Hurricanes and Scaffolding explores how artistic research can respond to and represent different aspects of the dynamic interplay between more-than-human forces and culturally resilient structures. The contributions have been selected from the broad range of research presented at Hurricanes and Scaffolding: Swedish Research Council Symposium on Artistic Research, hosted by UmArts in 2024. By bringing different ingredients in conversation, we will taste, talk, look and listen, cook and create a gathering to introduce the research we present in the journal. At the table will be Gabriel Bohm Calles, Geir-Tore Holm, Niclas Kaiser, Luis Berríos-Negrón, Lisa Nyberg, Timo Menke and Daniel Shanken.

https://parsejournal.com/event/release-of-hurricanes-and-scaffolding/
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All welcome! The event is free to attend and there is no need to register.

06/11/2025

Some Like It Hot 6th Biennial PARSE Research Conference

Wed 12 - Thur 13 - Fri 14 Nov

All plenary sessions of the conference will be open to the public, free to attend and live streamed.

– fields harrington, Marina Otero Verzier: Röhsska museet- Museum of Design and Craft at Vasagatan 37-39
– Hsuan Hsu: Stadsbiblioteket at Götaplatsen 3
– Sara Sassanelli: Göteborgs Konserthus at Götaplatsen 8

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

20/10/2025

Some Like it Hot⁠ 🔥⁠

Final days to register!
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14/10/2025

Some Like it Hot⁠
The 6th biennial PARSE conference (November 12-14, 2025) hosted by the Artistic Faculty at the University of Gothenburg.⁠
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Registration for the conference will close on October 23rd. To register, visit https://parsejournal.com/event/some-like-it-hot/

02/10/2025

Some Like it Hot Plenary session:⁠
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Sara Sassanelli

Göteborgs Konserthus

Friday 14 November

11:00-12:30

Looking for the Heat
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This lecture considers how experimental choreographic practices engage with heat, not just as temperature, but as pressure, as friction and urgency. In a time shaped by ecological crisis and accelerated systems, heat becomes a warning signal and a generative force. In contemporary dance and somatic work, it surfaces through repetition and exertion, through an engagement with hybrid format structures, that push scores towards altered states. Scores that require an acceptance of the unknown or lack of resolution.

Drawing from choreographic research that moves through rave cultures and collective movement, this talk explores how heat takes multiple forms: as sweat, the build of tempo, the moment of collapse. Dancing becomes a conduit for energy, making space for new configurations of relation and time.

What does it mean to stay with this intensity? Curating in this context means creating space for instability. It’s about building frameworks where experimentation can flourish, and where risk and disorientation can be held, rather than resolved. This lecture speaks through different curatorial methodologies that offer space for practice and uncertainty, with the aim of opening up moving with, and being moved by, dance. ⁠
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Sara Sassanelli is co-founder of Alice Agency and Associate of CONDITIONS studio programme. Until 2024, they were Curator of Live at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) where they programmed across dance and electronic music, with a focus on emerging artists. Their work explores collective and enthusiastic cultures that form around raving and how these manifest in multidisciplinary practices. Their most recent ICA programme, this dark gleam (2024), showcased artists engaging with formal technique, social dance, pop culture, and punk sensibilities. Currently, they are collaborating with Eve Stainton, Fernanda Muñoz-Newsome, Billy Bultheel, and Jose Funnell, among others. Previously, they have worked at Tate, Goldsmiths, and the Royal Academy of Arts, and have programmed events at Ormside Projects, Somerset House Studios, Southwark Platform, Guest Projects, Arts Admin, Fierce Festival, and Block Universe. They programme across dance and electronic music.

Recent programming includes: NX FUIMO by Tamara Alegre (2024), GONER by Malik Nashad Sharpe (2024), Afterlife by Louis Schou Hansen (2024) IMPACT DRIVER by Eve Stainton (2023), minus one series (2022 – 2023), Dykegeist by Eve Stainton (2021), The Last Breath Society by Martin O’Brien (2021), Rave Trilogy by Rebecca Salvadori (2020) The Tender Interval: Studies in Sound and Motion (2020), a convening exploring the transformational qualities of sound and dance practices and an all-night takeover of ICA by collective INFERNO (2020 & 2023).
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The session will be moderated by Gerrie van Noord, editor and educator.⁠
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All plenary sessions of the conference will be open to the public and live streamed. ⁠

Visit https://parsejournal.com/event/some-like-it-hot/ for more information on Some Like it Hot, the 6th Biennial PARSE conference.
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image: IMPACT DRIVER, Eve Stainton, 2023, Institute of Contemporary Arts © Anne Tetzlaff

01/10/2025

Some Like it Hot Plenary session:⁠
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Hsuan Hsu

Stadsbiblioteket

Thursday 13 November

17:30-19:00
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Thermoception and Post-AC Worldmaking

Building on Nicole Starosielski’s elaboration of “critical temperature studies,” Daniel Barber’s call for architectural design oriented towards a post-carbon future, and Sarah Hamblin’s work on “post-AC” spatial and cinematic practices, this presentation argues that thermal aesthetics—grounded in sensory experience that is metabolic, embodied, atmospheric, affective, shared, and uneven—can communicate modes of relation and practices of worldmaking that have been occluded by Western liberalism’s norms of disinterestedness and autonomy. I will begin by considering how thermal discourses and carbon-intensive infrastructure—especially air conditioning—function to spread and normalize liberal, capitalist modes of sensing and inhabiting the world. I will then consider a range of narratives and multimodal artworks that experiment with thermoception as a sensory capacity attuned to both the exercise of “thermopower” and otherwise possibilities for relating to the human and more-than-human world.

Hsuan Hsu received his PhD in English from UC Berkeley. He is a Professor of English at the University of California, Davis, where he works in the fields of American literature and culture, environmental humanities, critical ethnic studies, sensory studies, and cultural geography. His publications include Geography and the Production of Space in Nineteenth-Century American Literature (Cambridge, 2010), The Smell of Risk (NYU, 2020), Air Conditioning (Bloomsbury, 2024), and articles in journals such as American Literary History, ISLE, Panorama, Camera Obscura, and Jump Cut. He has on the editorial or advisory boards of several journals, including Literary Geographies, American Literature, Genre, Multimodality and Society, and Venti: Air, Experience, Aesthetics. He has received fellowships from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council for Learned Societies, and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. He is currently completing a short book on Olfactory Worldmaking and co-editing (with Ruben Zecena) a special issue of Senses and Society on the topic of Migrant Sensoria.

The session will be moderated by Jessica Hemmings, Professor of Craft, HDK-Valand.⁠⁠

All plenary sessions of the conference will be open to the public and live streamed. ⁠

For more information on Some Like it Hot, the 6th Biennial PARSE conference visit https://parsejournal.com/event/some-like-it-hot/
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image: Do the Right Thing (dir. Spike Lee, 1989)

30/09/2025

Some Like it Hot Plenary session:⁠
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Marina Otero Verzier
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Röhsska museet⁠
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Thursday 13 November ⁠
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12:30-14:00 ⁠

On Heat, Desire, and the Thermopolitics of Data
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This talk traces the entangled geographies of heat within digital infrastructures. From the residual warmth expelled by servers to the rising planetary temperatures fueled by an ever-expanding network of data centers, computation operates as both a generator and amplifier of thermal excess. Yet heat is not merely a byproduct—it is a condition. It saturates the mountainous territories where minerals are extracted to sustain digital operations, and it radiates through the bodies and ecologies subjected to extractive violence. Drawing from case studies across mining projects and data farms, I will examine how thermal regimes are spatialized, managed, and contested—and propose pathways toward new energy cultures.
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Marina Otero Verzier is an architect and researcher whose work sits at the intersection of critical spatial practices, ecology, technology, and activism. In 2022, she received the Harvard GSD’s Wheelwright Prize for a project on the future of data storage. She is a Lecturer in Architecture at Harvard GSD and Dean’s Visiting Assistant Professor at GSAPP, Columbia University, New York, where she leads the ‘Data Mourning’ clinic, an educational initiative focused on the intersection between digital infrastructures and climate catastrophe. She collaborated with the Supercomputing Center of the DIPC to develop alternative models for storing data, such as the project Computational Compost, first presented at Tabakalera. Otero was also invited by the Ministry of Science, Technology, Knowledge, and Innovation to participate as an expert in the development of Chile’s first National Data Centers Plan, together with “Resistencia SocioAmbiental – Quilicura” and other local communities on the front lines of extractivism. Otero was the Head of the MA Social Design Masters at Design Academy Eindhoven (2020-2023) and Director of Research at Het Nieuwe Instituut (2015 to 2022). She has curated exhibitions such as ‘Wet Dreams’ at Mayrit, CentroCentro (2024), ‘Compulsive Desires: On Lithium Extraction and Rebellious Mountains’ at Galería Municipal do Porto (2023), ‘Work, Body, Leisure’ at the Dutch Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale (2018), and ‘After Belonging’ at the Oslo Architecture Triennale (2016). Otero is the author of En las Profundidades de la Nube (2024), a book on data storage and sovereignty in the AI era. The book proposes new paradigms and aesthetics for data storage, integrating architecture, preservation, and digital culture. She has co-edited Automated Landscapes (2023), Lithium: States of Exhaustion (2021), More-than-Human (2020), Architecture of Appropriation (2019), Work, Body, Leisure (2018), among others.
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The session will be moderated by Onkar Kular, Professor of Design, HDK-Valand.⁠
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All plenary sessions of the conference will be open to the public and live streamed. ⁠
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For more details on Some Like it Hot, the 6th biennial PARSE conference ⁠ visit https://parsejournal.com/event/some-like-it-hot/
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image: 'Computational Compost' by Marina Otero Verzier at Tabakalera
International Centre for Contemporary Culture, Donostia. Photo:
Tabakalera.

29/09/2025

Some Like it Hot Plenary session:

fields harrington

Röhsska museet

Wednesday 12 November

15:00-16:30

Thermal Runaways: Labor, Extraction, and Circuits of Exhaustion

Platform-based contract labor, mineral extraction, and bodily exhaustion converge within the gig economy’s logistical infrastructure—an economy that extracts not only labor but energy from both human and planetary bodies. Lithium-ion batteries, which power the e-bikes and smartphones essential to app-based delivery work, are sourced from sites of resource depletion in the Global South, including Chile’s Atacama Desert, the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Zimbabwe. The physical exertion of New York City’s delivery workers and the environmental devastation wrought by lithium mining share a critical material relationship: both are driven toward depletion in service of platform capital’s uninterrupted flow of commodities. This project traces that entanglement, revealing how thermal violence—the heat of bodily fatigue, resource extraction, and ecological collapse—structures contemporary platform economies.

fields harrington (b. 1986) is a Brooklyn-based artist whose practice spans sculpture, performance, video, photography, drawing, and writing. harrington investigates the political, social, historical, and economic forces shaping the production of empirical knowledge, with a particular focus on science. His work critiques how ideologies—such as racism and the enduring financial logic of slavery—have shaped scientific practices that uphold systems of oppression. By revealing the intersections between knowledge production and the abstraction of power, harrington challenges the construction, transmission, and weaponization of knowledge.

The session will be moderated by Cathryn Klasto, Senior Lecturer in Fine Art, HDK-Valand.

All plenary sessions of the conference will be open to the public and live streamed.

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image: blue_whitebag, fields harrington, 2024

19/08/2025

Some Like it Hot: The 6th biennial PARSE conference (November 12-14, 2025)

We are pleased to announce our full conference contributor list with biographies is available on the PARSE website.

Looking forward to all the propositions that address heat from a range of positions, perspectives, and disciplines!

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Some Like it Hot takes place in Gothenburg and online.⁠

Registration now open, visit: https://parsejournal.com/event/some-like-it-hot/

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