Krabstadt Education Center: Conflated Places

Ewa Einhorn is a visual artist and filmmaker working with animation, satirical drawing and documentary formats. She currently teaches at HDK-Valand, Gothenburg University (SE). Influenced by popular culture, her work seeks to unhinge everyday assumptions by misusing language and images. Together with Jeuno JE Kim she has developed the transmedia project „Krabstadt“, which uses comedy and research to dissect the relations between political rhetoric and nations as brands in the Nordic context.

Lars-Ove Hedqvist Lars-Ove Hedqvist is a voice coach who has worked for over 20 years with voice training for teachers, students, and singers. Hedqvist also offers voice training in leadership courses, and recently has focused on coaching voices for online teaching and specifically to rehabilitate voices of tired teachers. Based in Hudviksvall, Sweden, Hedqvist also makes and sells musical instruments and educational material/books for music education in public primary schools, as well as adult education in Sweden.

Jeuno JE Kim is an artist with a background in feminist theology, music, and radio. Kim’s artistic practice and research focus on sound, performance, video, and text. Her peripatetic interest has an interdisciplinary framework, mixing disparate methods and cultural canons. Her work is influenced by the ongoing modernization in Korea and the Pacific East region, and the urgency of the political, sociological, and cultural issues that permeate this reality such as nationalism, identity construction, and historical narration.

Karolin Meunier is an artist and writer. Her performance, text and videos observe how access to individual experience is accomplished through cultural and standardized practices. She is a Phd candidate at HFBK Hamburg (DE) and her research is oriented towards feminist writing strategies, translation processes, learning methods, and the politics of dialogue. She is part of the collective publisher b_books in Berlin; her artist book on the work of Italian feminist Carla Lonzi is forthcoming in 2022.

Henriette Sennenvaldt, front woman of the genre bending Danish band Under Byen, released her solo debut Something Wonderful on Paper Bag Records November 13 2021. The new album delves into territories on the far edges of pop and balances tenderness, wit, earnestness and camp. The solo work unfolds a universe constantly on the verge of collapse that oscillates between kicking away the ground it stands on and catching itself. Sennenvaldt performs with Bjørn Heebøll (drums); Daniel Honore (sax/clarinet); Rasmus Kjær (keys); Jeppe Skovbakke (bass); Johan Wieth & Patrick Rathbun (guitar).

Kevin Tavin is Professor of International Art Education, and Head of the Department of Art at Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland. Tavin holds a BFA, MEd and PhD in art education. His research focuses on art education, visual culture, critical pedagogy, and psychoanalytic theory. His work has been published in international art and education journals and books, and presented as keynote and research papers. Recent books include, Stand(ing) up, for a Change: Voices of arts educators (NAEA, 2012), Angels, ghosts, and cannibals: Essays on art education and visual culture (Aalto ARTS, 2016) and Experimenting FADS: Finnish art-education doctoral studies (Aalto ARTS, 2016), Art, Education, and Excess (Palgrave Mcmillian, 2019), and Post-Digital, Post-Internet Art and Education: The Future is All-Over (2021).

Eva Weinmayr’s collaborative practice is grounded in contemporary art, radical education and institutional analysis. In 2020 she published her doctoral thesis, titled Noun to Verb, on a MediaWiki. This research is concerned with the micropolitics of publishing from an intersectional, feminist perspective. (HDK-Valand, University of Gothenburg, SE)

As interims chair of faculty Art and Education at Munich Art Academy (2022-23) she co-initiated together with students kritilab, an open source platform for discrimination-critical teaching in the arts. From 2019 to 22 she co-led the EU-funded collective research and study programme “Teaching to Transgress Toolbox” inspired by US activist, teacher and theorist bell hooks (with erg, Brussels, BE).

As part of Ecologies of Dissemination (HDK-Valand, 2023-24) she is currently Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Postdigital Cultures, Coventry University (UK). Ecologies of Dissemination​​​​​​, a collaboration with artist Femke Snelting, seeks strategies for dissemination and a politics of re-use that acknowledge the tensions between feminist methodologies, decolonial knowledge practices and principles of Open Access. More specificly, they explore in which way the current drive drive to universal access policies might overlook relational aspects.

Recent artistic research-based projects include “Teaching the Radical Catalog – a Syllabus” (2021-22, with Lucie Kolb), “Library of Inclusions and Omissions” (2016-20), “The Piracy Project” (2010-15, with Andrea Francke), AND Publising (2010-ongoing, with Rosalie Schweiker).