Academic Feelings

What does it mean to think, make, and feel with art inside today’s universities? Academic Feelings dives into the emotional and intellectual lives of artists, curators, and academics working with practice-based art research, asking: if artistic research is ultimately rooted in sensing and sensitivity, yet unfolds within a society shaped by competition, precarity, and acceleration, how do these conditions shape research, sensibility, and thinking?

Created as an artwork for the Centre for Practice-based Art Studies (PASS) at the University of Copenhagen, the podcast is hosted by artist and documentarist Rosa Marie Frang. It is an experiment in slow and raw media production; episodes unfold as open, unedited conversations rather than structured interviews. Guests and host bring the topics they find meaningful without prior coordination, allowing resonance, dissonance, doubt, and clarity to emerge in real time.

Alongside these conversations, the host openly shares her reflections on the emotional dimensions of producing a podcast artwork about practice-based art research. What unfolds when professional knowledge, feelings, and lived experience, are given equal value?

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.