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 and to the practice-based PhD he recently completed at the Trondheim Academy of Fine Arts in Norway.

Weaving together conversations recorded in different places over an extended period of time, host Rosa Marie Frang allows Joen to interrupt himself as connections emerge between documentary filmmaking, live video editing, political revolts, sabotage, and life that just happens—underlining why following pre-scheduled plans isn’t always the best plan there is.

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With an acute sensitivity to the relation between content, context and form, his work often deals with the liminal spaces between the personal and the political; between major and minor events, and the possibilities of grasping them while they unfold.

Joen is educated at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Whitney Independent Study Program in New York and Maumaus Independent Study Program in Lisbon. In 2025, he obtained his PhD from Trondheim Academy of Fine Arts, Norway.

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It is created by artist Rosa Marie Frang for PASS (Center for Practice-Based Art Studies) at the University of Copenhagen and supported by the Novo Nordisk Foundation.

Link: https://pass.ku.dk

The Academic Feelings Answering Machine:

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.

In Academic Feelings, pre-interviews are used to explore the guest’s work and what matters most to them. But this particular recording took place long before the Academic Feelings podcast had fully taken shape, at a time when Rosa was testing different podcast formats and conducting conversations to research the culture of practice-based art studies.

Listen to previous episodes with Ida Bencke to hear how this early conversation evolved into the final recordings.

About: Ida Bencke is an art curator and PhD Fellow at The University of Copenhagen and part of the projects Hosting Lands and Laboratory for Aesthetics and Ecology. She is also part of the research group Oikos and has taken part in the educational programme DAAS (Decolonizing Art and Architecture Studies).

The artist mentioned in the episode: Cassie Thornton

About: Academic Feelings is a podcast-as-an-artwork devoted to long-form conversations with artists and curators about art, academia, and feelings. It is created by artist Rosa Marie Frang for PASS (Center for Practice-Based Art Studies) at the University of Copenhagen and supported by the Novo Nordisk Foundation.

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"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.

Academic Feelings is a podcast artwork about the emotional lives of artists, curators, and researchers, 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.

If you have experiences relating to the episode, we hope you will share them with the Academic Feelings answering machine, call +45-3532-0247

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?

Academic Feelings is a podcast artwork about the emotional lives of artists, curators and researchers, 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.

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

Ida Bencke is an Art Curator and PhD Fellow at The University of Copenhagen and part of these projects Hosting Lands and Laboratory for Aesthetics and Ecology. She is also part of the research group Oikos and last year, she took part in the educational programme DAAS (Decolonizing Art and Architecture Studies).

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.

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. Using lived experience as a method, she reflects on the politics of feelings, the courage to speak when it feels uncool to do so, and the power of feeling comfortable. The episode asks what kind of knowledge lived feelings produce, and if and how they have a place within academic and art institutions.

Academic Feelings would love to hear from you! Call our answering machine: 0045-3532-0247 

If you have any thoughts, feelings, critique or suggestions - big or small – give a call. By leaving a message you give permission that it, or parts of it, may be played in upcoming episodes, thank you <3

Big Thanx to the band Ghost Voo who let us play one of their new numbers! Check them out – Ghost Voo! https://soundcloud.com/ghost-voo

Credits: host, 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.

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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.

Entering academia as an outsider, Rosa reflects on her encounters with an environments marked by exceptional commitment, as well as by stress and subtle forms of self-censorship. It makes her wonder; If artistic research is grounded in sensibility and sensitivity, how are these qualities affected when research unfolds within a society driven by performance, competition, and acceleration?

Academic Feelings employs a combination of slow and raw media formats, including unedited conversations with artists and curators doing practice-based research, behind-the-scenes research recordings, and the host’s reflections on the emotional dimensions of producing a podcast artwork about practice-based art research.

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.