We are pleased to announce our new guest researcher and program for fall 2026.
Mwenya B. Kabwe will be a Senior Guest Researcher, Spring 2027
CAPIm is delighted to announce Mwenya B. Kabwe, the Zambian-born, South Africa-based, maker of theatre and performance, facilitator of creative processes, an award-winning performer, a writer, arts educator and scholar as our Spring 2027 guest researcher. Kabwe is Senior Lecturer and Head of Theatre at The Centre for Theatre Dance & Performance Studies, University of Cape Town. She co-curates the Unrehearsed Futures series; has incubated several interdisciplinary experimental performance projects at The Centre for the Less Good Idea; and is the dramaturg on William Kentridge’s chamber opera, The Great Yes The Great No.
Artists’ Organising in Times of Upheaval
Gothenburg (online), September 4, 10am–12pm (CEST)
Jointly convened with Public Art Agency Sweden this series considers how artists and artists’ organisations mobilize in response to dramatic upheavals in national politics and erosion of the “arm’s length” principle. The fifth session Learning from the Netherlands features artists Falke Pisano and Jeanne van Heeswicke and political scientist Merijn Oudenampsen. More.
Plural Ecologies: Start-up meeting
Gothenburg (online), September 11, 3pm (CEST)
Start-up meeting of Plural Ecologies, a new reading group convened by Dr. Ram Krishna Ranjan, part of PARSE Journal’s “Labs.” A transdisciplinary space for investigating how marginalised communities—differentiated by race, caste, class, gender, and Global South positionality—navigate ecological crisis while resisting, or simply bypassing, universalising frameworks like the Anthropocene. More.
Modes of Domination: Reading Group
Stockholm (online), October 15, 7–9pm (CEST)
Start-up meeting of new online reading group (2026–27), co-facilitated by Dr. Michele Masucci (KKH/CAPIm) and Dr. Majsa Allelin in collaboration with the Centre for Marxist Social Studies (CMS). Modes of Domination is a eight-session reading group exploring how Marxist, Black radical, anti-colonial and Indigenous thinkers have approached colonialism, imperialism and settler colonialism. Through close readings, it examines relations among land, labour, racial capitalism, and liberation struggles. Participation is free; no familiarity is required. Booking required. More.
The Figure of the Archive IV
Gothenburg (online), September 21, 4:30pm–7pm (CEST)
The figure of the archive explores the archive in artistic research with guests Monica-Lita Storss, Northeastern University, addressing “Relational Method Poetics in the Archive: Archiving the Impossible in the Chthulucene.” Jason E. Bowman, artist and researcher at HDK-Valand presenting the archival dimensions of the research exhibition In Case There’s a Reason: The Theatre of Mistakes (Raven Row, London, 2017.) More.
The Otolith Group and Nicholas Mirzoeff: Self Organisation
Gothenburg (online), October 5, 5–7pm (CEST) and November 16, 5:30–7pm (CET)
Self-Organisation in Contemporary Arts hosts two open public webinars: The Otolith Group discuss how forms and genealogies of self-organisation contour their art, research and working practices, October 5. The renowned theorist of visual cultures Nicholas Mirzoeff, explores self-organisation through the non-human spontaneous organising inherent to murmurations, November 16. Booking required.
Alice Chauchat, Valentina Desideri & guests: Listening Together
Stockholm, November 1 and 29
These sessions experiment with practices of shared listening in public space, exploring different ways of attending not only to what is heard, but to what cannot be shared, translated, or understood. A fragile coexistence emerges: a space where difference is neither resolved nor reduced but sustained. More.
Our Common Grounds Open Research Seminars: Start-up Meeting
Stockholm (online), December 2, 4–6pm (CET)
Our Common Grounds is an open research seminar series on microhistories of rural revolt, agrarian struggle and commoning, it asks how land, labour, care and shared resources have been contested and reorganised and how artistic practice might engage their dispersed archives and living traces. The start-up meeting is open to all; no preparation is required. Booking required.
About
Based at HDK-Valand, University of Gothenburg and The Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm, 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.
