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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.

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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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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