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PARSE is an international artistic research publishing platform and biennial conference based in The Artistic Faculty at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
Current
Editors – Eva WeinmayrFemke Snelting
This issue of PARSE Journal starts from the tangled and mesmerising fabric of collective artistic practice, particularly from the frictions that keep coming up when sharing work that was collectively produced or while reusing works made by others.
You may have felt too shy to reuse existing work out of caution not to overstep cultural boundaries. You may have engaged in cultural appropriation without noticing, or maybe regretted including a fragment, image or reference but did not know how to apologise. Maybe, you have experienced a situation in which collaborators expressed anxiety about not being credited adequately, or you struggled with who or what to include or exclude from a colophon. You may at times also have felt wrongly acknowledged or not acknowledged at all.
A stool and a chair, with colourful cushions attached to them, next to a table on a brick floor. Each cushion is screen-printed with text fragments. Flo*Souad Benaddi, Sitting on Reuse, installation view “Revisit Reuse”, Brussels, May 2024.
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Editors – Basia SliwinskaMargarida Brito Alves
Latvian artist Eva Vēvere’s reflection accompanying the drawings created as a commentary on the final event in a series of events that were part of “The Lost-and-Found: Revising Art Stories in search of Potential Changes” symposium organised between December 2023 and June 2024 in Lisbon, Warsaw and Riga, highlights the entanglements accompanying conversations that happened between the symposium participants.[1] “Connecting the dots” that Vēvere writes about is not an easy task; it is one that foregrounds methods and strategies of making relations, which was the key focus of “The Lost-and-Found” initiative. Emerging itself out of a conversation between individuals associated with three institutions in Portugal, Poland and Latvia, the dialogues initiated at the three gatherings turned into a durational inter-conversation that expanded towards others, human and non-human.[2] This was unexpected, catalysing literal connections through talking-with, eating-with and walking-with, and metaphorical moving-with each other in turbulent times affecting our situated worlds.
Eva Vēvere, ‘On work Elke II’, 2024, graphite, marker and textile paint on paper, 21 x 29.7 cm
Forthcoming
Hurricanes and Scaffolding
- Issue 22
- — Autumn 2025
Editors - Tarsh Bates, Michael Lukaszuk, Lisa Nyberg, Daniel Shanken, Young Suk Lee
This themed issue revisits Hurricanes and Scaffolding: Swedish Research Council Symposium on Artistic Research, hosted by UmArts and held in Ubmeje/Umeå in December 2024. The selected works explore and represent different aspects of the dynamic interplay between more-than-human forces and culturally resilient structures, from a perspective of artistic research. Drawing inspiration from Nora N. Khan’s contrasting concepts of “hurricanes and scaffoldings” as developed in her essay “Towards a Poetics of Artificial Super Intelligence”, artistic researchers identify the frameworks, practices, perspectives and themes that their practice can bring to the broader discourses of society, environment, technology and politics.
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Still from the video "Toub, Toub" (2023) by Ameena Aljerman Alali
Featured articles during October, 2025
I begin my selection of contributions from PARSE journal with the question – or rather practice – of citation via Valentina Desideri and Denise Ferreira da Silva ‘The Sensing Salon’. It felt necessary, if not entirely original. The selection is of course frangementary, partial. But the pieces I have cited here felt like compelling ways of speaking to the present; the present in which they came into being, as well as the present today. They are a few examples, amongst so many in this rich back catalogue, of the ways in which forms of artistic thinking or thinking through practice, are helpful in both clarifying and complexifying these frightening, often overwhelming, times.
Selection by Nick Aikens