Academic Feelings
Academic Feelings explores the emotions of artists, curators, and academics working within Practice-based Art Studies, challenging the notion that emotions in professional life should be kept private. The show opens new ways of understanding knowledge itself, positioning sensitivity as a necessary counterforce in a time shaped by competition, precarity, acceleration, and performance. Created as a podcast artwork for the Centre for Practice-based Art Studies (PASS) at the University of Copenhagen and hosted by artist Rosa Marie Frang, the show features raw, unedited conversations, distinctive use of music, and reflections on the emotions involved in making the podcast itself.
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Interruptions – and Why Sticking to the Plan Isn’t the Best Plan There Is | Joen Vedel | Part One
There is no distinction between life and art for artist, organizer, and filmmaker Joen Vedel. Being affected by and responding to interruptions—both those coming from the wider world and those unfolding in his personal life—is central to his artistic practice and to the practice-based PhD he recently completed at the Trondheim Academy of Fine Arts in Norway.
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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 w
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 cu
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
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
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.
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The Beginning
Unfolding as an audio essay, host and artist Rosa Marie Frang maps her attempt at navigating between anxiety, vulnerability, and institutional structures while creating a podcast artwork about Practice-based Art Studies. Using lived experience as a method, she reflects on the politics of feelings, the courage to speak when it feels uncool to do so, and the power of feeling comfortable. The episode
Introducing: Academic Feelings
What does it mean to think, make, and feel with art inside today’s universities? Academic Feelings is a podcast created as an artwork for the Centre for Practice-based Art Studies (PASS) at the University of Copenhagen and hosted by artist Rosa Marie Frang.
Entering academia as an outsider, Rosa reflects on her encounters with an environments marked by exceptional commitment, as well as by str
