Diakron is a platform and studio for transdisciplinary research and practice. We establish collaborations across disciplinary backgrounds and institutional frameworks. Our own backgrounds are composed of experiences from artistic practices, curatorial practices, social sciences and graphic design.
Diakron is based on explorative research as a core value. This means, that we adapt what our practices do and what the organization is, according to the research projects we undertake.
We are currently interested in creative and explorative ways of identifying and dealing with changes, that invisibly permeate or unavoidably overwhelm ways of life. This work is tied to concerned interests in various pervasive ecological, humanitarian, existential, digital, or economic shifts. We approach these issues through experimentation with our own ways of working and the relationships we maintain through our practices.
Our modes of engagement, processes of making and research methodologies grow out of our projects and collaborations. We combine our transdisciplinary outset with an open-ended and relational approach to methodological experimentation. Outputs and expressions are not predetermined, but are developed in a responsive manner according to each research process.
Amitai Romm
Artist. MFA, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Schools of Visual Art. Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien, Vienna
Asger Behncke Jacobsen
Graphic designer. BFA, Gerrit Rietveld Academie
Aslak Aamot Helm
PostDoc, Medical Museion, Diakron and Serpentine Galleries. PhD, Space, Place and Technology at Roskilde University
Bjarke Hvass Kure
Artist. MFA, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Schools of Visual Art
David Hilmer Rex
PostDoc, Human Centred Science and Digital Technology at The Department of Communication and Psychology at Aalborg University, Danish Design Center, The Systems Innovation Initiative at The Rockwool Foundation and Diakron. PhD, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and Aarhus University.
Victoria Ivanova
Curator and writer. R&D Strategic Lead, Arts Technologies, Serpentine Galleries. PhD, Centre for the Study of the Networked Image, London Southbank University.
+45 30271851
email@diakron.dk
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The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Schools of Visual Art
The myriad organizing efforts of an artistic practice; networking, applications, talking to colleagues, daily rhythms, going to openings, reading, writing and so on, are often seen as the coincidental scaffolding of a practice, that is, as means to an end. This course will explore a notion of practice where all these encounters are opened up, and considered as generative occasions of versioning and translation taking place integral to a practice. At first, for recasting the techniques of relation we have, and secondly, for expanding the operational spaces of artistic practices by inventing new ones.
This furthers a generative notion of artistic practice as a practice of excess, which is always extra-institutional, extra-disciplinary, extra-categorical and extra-cognitive. It overflows and generates abundance beyond our cognitive faculties and the present ecology of organizations.
Organizational form is a key actor in terms of negotiating the excesses generated by artistic practices. It negotiates what has value and what not, it selects some cause-effects relationships over others, it directs and situates select trajectories of artistic practices. It sees some parts of artistic practices, others not. It is in other words, the extended armature of artistic practices, and its agency has amassed to a degree where one could talk of a bureaucratic turn.
What this course will stress and explore, is that artistic practices are organizational forms in and of themselves, in that they compose emergent assemblages of ideas, places, economies, materials, desires and other less easily named entities. Artistic practice is here understood as a “way”, a navigational practice that operates at many levels and scales and co-compose with its shifting environments. As an artist, you initiate processes than in turn will model you as an artist. The work of art, is but one cut/duration in such emergent multi-pathic processes.