Academic Feelings

About Academic Feelings

Exploring the emotions of artists, curators, and academics working within Practice-based Art Studies, Academic Feelings challenges the notion that emotions in professional life should be kept private. By staying with what feels at stake, 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. Academic Feelings would love to hear from you! If you have any thoughts, feelings, critique or suggestions - big or small – give our answering machine a call. You can be anonymous, and by leaving a message you give permission that it, or parts of it, may be played in upcoming episodes. Call the answering machine: 0045-3532-0247 Credits: host, concept, research, sound technique, recording, editing, writing, graphics, and music by Rosa Marie Frang. Assistance and advice by Brit Pliestik Jensen. Music engineering by Timmy Olivia Thyge Johansen. Cover photo by Karen Rosetzsky. Consultants: Anne Julie Arnfred and Mikkel Bogh. Supported by PASS, Centre for Practice-based Art Studies, University of Copenhagen, and the Novo Nordisk Foundation.

Publisher

Academic Feelings

Category

arts · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

20 Dec 2025

Latest episode

2 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

9 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   2 Oct 2026

   Institutional Ambiguity… A Prelude, Maybe

   Are today's institutions merely empty brick walls, primarily sustained by permanent bullshit* positions and the exploitation of an endless supply of temporaries? Are they just leftover façades from a time when the values of the welfare state – equal access to, and genuine respect for, art, knowledge, and care – were still at the core of society?Or are state-supported art, media, and educational institutions our last frontier and safe haven against the tsunami of commercialization and corporate mindsets that trust only what can be counted and measured, while wiping out everything that could potentially exist in its own right – and for its own sake – such as art, knowledge, and humanity?By combining messages from the podcast's answering machine with whacked commentary voices, a real-life fairytale-storytelling, and easy-listening music, artist and host Rosa Marie Frang uses the podcast format as an artwork in itself – and as a means of questioning the power and influence of today's institutions.Is it possible for an artist to be dependent on an institution without becoming somewhat institutionalized? And, likewise, is it possible for an institution to be dependent on state funding without being silenced? Or is artistic and institutional autonomy simply a long-gone, outdated romantic idea?*Reference: David Graeber, Bullsh*t Jobs. About: Academic Feelings is a podcast-as-an-artwork created by artist Rosa Marie Frang for PASS, Center for Practice-Based Art Studies, at the University of Copenhagen, supported by the Novo Nordisk Foundation.Link: https://pass.ku.dk Give the answering machine a call: 0045-35-320247

2. 

   23 Jun 2026

   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.

3. 

   26 May 2026

   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.

4. 

   25 Mar 2026

   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 cultural products—as if they are placed behind transparent glass or smooth plastic shielding—is because they are trying to satisfy the logics of capitalist career structures. In an attempt to break the “glass surface,” Rosa announces that she will begin publishing her raw research interviews—the unpolished, ”low-quality” conversations that are normally kept strictly behind the scenes.

5. 

   5 Mar 2026

   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 shape new ways to work, write, and think together?

6. 

   16 Feb 2026

   Is Writing with Emotions Dangerous? | Ida Bencke | Part Two

   Can writing with emotions be risky in academia? And if so, for who? In this second part of the conversation with PhD fellow and curator Ida Bencke, Academic Feelings explores vulnerability, power, and the absence of infrastructures 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 in the attention economy.

7. 

   3 Feb 2026

   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.If you have any thoughts or comments – big or small - you are welcome to give the Academic Feelings answering Machine a call: 0045-3532-0247 Links to the projects mentioned in the episode:Hosting Lands: https://hostinglands.com/Hosting Lands is created by Laboratory for Aesthetics and Ecology: https://www.labae.org/about in collaboration - amongst many others - with På Den Anden Side: https://pdas.dkIda Bencke is part of the research group Oikos:  https://artsandculturalstudies.ku.dk/research/oikos/ and last year, she took part in the educational programme DAAS (Decolonizing Art and Architecture Studies) https://www.decolonizing.ps/site/daas-in-sharjah/Literature mentioned:On the Inconvenience of Other People, by Lauren Berlant.Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective, by Donna Haraway.Credits: oost, concept, research, sound technique, recording, editing, writing, graphics, and music by Rosa Marie Frang. Advice and assistance by Brit Pliestik Jensen. Music engineering by Timmy Olivia Thyge Johansen. Cover photo by Karen Rosetzsky. Consultants: Anne Julie Arnfred and Mikkel Bogh. Supported by PASS, Centre for Practice-based Art Studies, at the University of Copenhagen, and the Novo Nordisk Foundation.

8. 

   14 Jan 2026

   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.

9. 

   20 Dec 2025

   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.

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