Conversation and Highly Sensitive Mediation

Name: Conversation and Highly Sensitive Mediation
Start: 2025-10-02T17:00:00+02:00
End: 2025-10-02T19:00:00+02:00
Location: Astrid Noacks Atelier

Schedule

Thu Oct 02 2025 at 05:00 pm to 07:00 pm

UTC+02:00

Location

Astrid Noacks Atelier | Copenhagen , SK

Conversation and highly sensitive mediation with and by Cara Tolmie, Mia Edelgart, Eva la Cour, Frida Sandström and Kajsa Dahlberg. Sandström and Dahlberg have invited Tolmie, Edelgart, la Cour, together with whom they have developed a collective score for documenting a group conversation that self-reflects its own vulnerability.
High Sensitivity Media Group is initiated by visual artist and researcher Kajsa Dahlberg (SE/NO) and writer, art critic, and researcher Frida Sandström (SE/DK). The project is manifested in two parts at Astrid Noack’s Atelier during 2025-2026 and departs from Dahlberg’s research on film’s capacity to disrupt our preestablished modes of attention, and thereby to help us imagine something that is beyond what we think we can see; and Sandström’s writing practice and research in feminist consciousness-raising transcription practices in the era of sexual liberation in Italy in the late 1960s and early 1970s Italy. Moreover, the project draws on practices of organic psychodynamic group therapy, developed by Lisbeth W. Sørensen – an important source for the autonomous and queer milieu in Copenhagen for more than two decades. We see these methods illuminated today by a younger generation of therapists, artists, writers, and feminists, and we see ourselves as part of that movement. Considering the relations between oral history, feminist consciousness-raising and anti-psychiatric group practices, we want to engage in the mediations of these practices, not as reproductions of events, but as an integrated part of collective action. The group therapy model becomes reminiscent of the collective work of art.
Bios:
Frida Sandström is a writer and critic based in Copenhagen. She has recently completed her PhD thesis on feminist critiques of art and sexuality; Dropout Subjects. Jill Johnston’s and Carla Lonzi’s Disintegration and Deculturalization of Art Criticism as Social Critique in 1969. Sandström’s essays, articles and art criticism are published widely in Sweden and internationally, and her curatorial, critical and artistic projects often evolve in collaboration. She is editorial board member of the transdisciplinary academic journal Woman, Gender & Research and a contributing editor of the Swedish art journal Paletten. She is in her 4th year of a therapist-training program with a focus on system-centered therapy at Opuc.
Kajsa Dahlberg is a visual artist and researcher whose work is informed by queer life practices – its theories, and affinities. Dahlberg’s work investigates things like the materiality of film based on a desire to problematize the medium’s relation to representation, including the relations between the artist and the object of investigation. Dahlberg received her MFA at The Art Academy in Malmö 1998–2003 and was a studio fellow at the Whitney Program in New York 2007–08. She finished her PhD Tidal Zones – Filming Between Life and Images, which examines how non-human life-forms are part of shaping (our human) visual culture, from the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm in 2024.
Cara Tolmie spends much of her time oscillating between contexts as an artist, musician, performer, DJ, pedagogue and researcher. Her practice at large investigates the complexity of the bind between the voice and body – how voice can traverse internal and external realities of both the sounder and listener, and how it can research various qualities of embodiment, both pleasurable and disorienting. Within this she often explores performative techniques that dis-/reorient the listening relationship between the singer and her audience through live uses of defamiliarised, uncanny, and repetitive vocalisation. Cara is currently a PhD candidate in Critical Sonic Practice at Konstfack, Stockholm.
Eva la Cour is a visual artist working across academic research and image-making, often through long-term collaborative constellations. Her practice involves process-oriented filmmaking to explore the role of art in relation to Danish colonial history and its entanglement with present-day ecological and social crises. She holds a practice-based PhD in artistic research from HDK-Valand (University of Gothenburg), where her thesis examined relational practice through collaborative live editing. She is currently a postdoc at the Department of Art and Cultural Studies and the Center for Applied Ecological Thinking (CAPE), University of Copenhagen.
Joen Vedel is a visual artist, writer and researcher, educated at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Whitney Independent Study Program in New York and PhD in Artistic research at the Academy of Fine Arts in Trondheim. Vedel primarily works with video, sound, text, performance and in various forms of collaborations. He has been a member of numerous artist and activist collectives and self-organized spaces. He has exhibited widely internationally and participated at Documenta 15 in Kassel, amongst others.
Mia Edelgart is a visual artist who works non media specified, varying between collective and singular processes. Her works unfold in relation to long-lasting research processes, often involving interviews and conversations in various ways. She has often worked from an interest in relational intelligence, knowledge hierarchies and learning processes. As a pivotal part of her practice she is engaged in various self-organized (art)schools and collectives as means of facilitating alternative spaces for learning, sensing and sharing. Besides, Edelgart is in her 4th year of a therapist-training program with a focus on system-centered therapy at Opuc.
Still image from Coenaesthesis – It Is Not Even True That There Is Air Between Us, Kajsa Dahlberg, 2023.