February 1–August 31, 2026
We are pleased to announce our new guest researcher and programme for spring and summer 2026.
Senior guest researcher
CAPIms welcomes Alice Chauchat in 2026. Chaucat is a Berlin-based dance artist whose practice has long engaged collaboration as method. Trained in Lyon and at P.A.R.T.S. Brussels, she has worked across collective and independent contexts, developing a sustained inquiry into distance, alterity, and de-centering. Since 2014, she has been developing Togethering, a choreographic research project that approaches intimacy as an ethical and political field shaped by radical difference. Scores, performances, and texts unfold in studios, stages, museums, and urban space; Togethering uses dance to rehearse not-knowing, approximation, and tending-towards—testing choreography as a site where collective imaginaries are practiced rather than represented.
The Looking Glass Dialogues: Magnus Bärtås and Sam Hultin on Archives and Microhistory.
Stockholm, February 11
Bärtås and Hultin will explore a shared insistence on staying with the archives of specific lives rather than resorting to grand synthesis or explanatory closure. Their conversation will position the minor- or micro-approach as a significant articulation of the political imaginary within artistic research. More.
Editorial Conversations
Gothenburg, February 23–24
Two online events mark the release of two new volumes on curating: Carolina Rito and Mick Wilson discuss On Discourse and the Curatorial; and Catalin Gheorghe and Mick Wilson introduce Curating Beyond Exhibition: On the post-exhibitionary condition in a post-political world. More.
The Figure of the Archive
Gothenburg, March 2
This seminar considers how archives function within different artistic research processes, and different readings of its political affordance. Contributors include Dr. Fiona Hallinan and Monika Dorniak; and Jyoti Mistry on her archive film trilogy “We Come In Peace, They Said.” Mistry uses footage drawn from colonial archives, travelogues, and amateur films to explore Black masculinity, racist violence, intersectional sexism and femicide, queer sexuality and love. More
Michele Masucci: We, Fools Who Refuse Reality! The Political Imaginary in Poetry
Stockholm, April 10
A public lecture that approaches poetry as a force of collective imagination through its capacity to reconfigure perception, relation, being and agency. Masucci will read experimental poetry and artists’ writing as a techniques for structural change: methods for thinking, sensing, and staging futures. More.
Henk Slager: An Arc of Artistic Research Publishing
Gothenburg, April 15
This online workshop explores Slager’s trajectory of artistic research publishing in anticipation of the release of his new monograph Collateral Concepts: A Provisional Vocabulary for Artistic Research (2026), in Sternberg’s The Contemporary Condition series. More
Valentina Desideri & Stefano Harney: Affordances and Study
Stockholm, April 27
Desideri and Harney will share reflections from their on-going collaboration, a capacious examination of the senses in search of less individuated way to understand knowledge production. Their work moves away from the traditional Eurocentric production of subjects and objects of study and towards the notion of affordance. More.
Curatorial Program For Research 2026: (Self) Organization in North Africa
Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia, May 4–25
A three-week curatorial program for collective research organized by Susanne Ewerlöf, doctoral candidate at HDK-Valand, CAPIm co-director Natasha Marie Llorens, curator Myriam Amroun and CPR co-director Carmen Ferreyra in Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia engaging artistic and curatorial organizational strategies as instances of “minor transnational” political imagination. More.
Imagined Organizations: Practices of Artistic Research Moving Across Semiperipheries
Chișinău and Iași, July 22–27
Together with tranzit.ro/ Iași, 1+1 and Oberliht Association, Chișinău, we bring together artists, curators, activists and researchers in this intensive, including Charles Esche, Maria Hlavajova, Minna Henriksson, Stine Herbert, Vitalie Sprînceană, and many others. This event is also part of the CAPIm associated course “Introduction to Contemporary Art and Politics” which opens for application, February 16–March 16. More.
About
Based at two institutions: The Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm and HDK-Valand at The University of Gothenburg, 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. See full programme on our website.
