Research groups
Areas of responsibility
I am a research fellow at the Department of Visual Arts and Drama. For my PhD project I explore my own practice as an art curator with themes related to ecology and the concept of the Anthropocene, predominantly working with site-specific mediums of sculpture, performance, and installation. In this context, I am interested in the pedagogical potentials of the curator to raise awareness around sustainability through more-than-human encounters and the ethical implications that this work entails. I have curated various exhibitions for Agder Kunstsenter and Kunstpunkt Lista as part of the project.
Other research interests include analysis of contemporary art and literature through conceptual lenses such as affect theory, media studies, queer theory and eco-aesthetics.
Research
Environmental humanities
Affect theory
New materialisms
Eco-aesthetics
Post Qualitative Inquiry
Practice-led research
Media studies
Art and social relations
Aesthetic theory
Political theory
Curating
Selected publications
Friis, Joachim Aagaard. 2024. "Material-relational following of an artist-curator relationship in movement". Art / Research International, 9(2). (accepted)
Friis, Joachim Aagaard. 2024. "Curating in an ecological framework through sensuous pedagogy". Journal of Arts and Communities, 15(1).
Friis, Joachim Aagaard. 2024. "On the Potential and Challenges of Curating Environmental Performance Art Inside the Exhibition Space". Turba, 3(1).
Friis, Joachim Aagaard. 2024. Kunsthåndverket som konceptuelt landskab. Kunsthåndverk.
Friis, Joachim Aagaard. 2024. “Hver dag går en ny stenalder i gang”. Sammensatte tidsligheder i Nanna Storr- Hansens Bøgetid. SPRING – tidsskrift for moderne litteratur, 53: 33-52.
Friis, Joachim Aagaard. 2024. 4 årtiers livgivende beton-kvinder. Kunsthåndverk. https://www.kunsthandverk.no/aktuelt/4-artiers-livgivende-beton-kvinder/199356.
Friis, Joachim Aagaard. 2023. Au-Delà: Rituals For a New World Curated by Agnes Gryczkowska, Lafayette Anticipations, Paris, 15 February - 7 May 2023. Journal of Curatorial Studies, 12(2): 175-180. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1386/jcs_00087_7.
Friis, Joachim Aagaard. 2023. Digital gadekunst i en udvidet virkelighed. Atlas Magasin. https://atlasmag.dk/kultur/kunst/digital-gadekunst-i-en-udvidet-virkelighed.
Friis, Joachim Aagaard; Schyum, Ida. 2023. Menneske og drømmemaskine. Posthumane myteskabelser om AI hos Amalie Smith, Konsthistorisk tidskrift/Journal of Art History, 92(3): 212-227, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00233609.2023.2238689.
Friis, Joachim Aagaard. 2023. Et epicentrer for forventninger. Kunstsentrenes vekselstrøm. red. Marit K. Flåtter. Oslo: Museumsforlaget, 231-252.
Friis, Joachim Aagaard. 2023. Kunstnermyten bag væven. Kunsthåndverk.
Friis, Joachim Aagaard. 2023. Bypuls: Kristiansand. Norsk Kunstårbok 2023, ed. Susanne Christensen, Oslo: Uten Tittel.
Friis, Joachim Aagaard; Damgaard, Sofie. 2022. The spatial disruption of tradition in Matias Faldbakkens The Hills. Costellazioni, 20: 105-120.
Friis, Joachim Aagaard. 2022. Mellem underholdende kedsomhed og bedøvende overstimulering: Affektive rytmer i oplevelsen af hashtag-fænomenet #ProudBoys på Twitter. MedieKultur: Journal of Media and Communication Research, 38(72): 6–27. DOI: https://doi.org/10.7146/mk.v38i72.125739.
Friis, Joachim Aagaard; Schyum, Ida. 2022. At kuratere en antropocæn sensibilitet. Peripeti, 19(35): 125–138. DOI: https://doi.org/10.7146/peri.v19i35.130637.
Friis, Joachim Aagaard. 2022. Bypuls: Kristiansand. Norsk Kunstårbok 2022, ed. Susanne Christensen, Oslo: Uten Tittel.
Friis, Joachim Aagaard. 2022. Fremtidsangst og fortidsforløsning. Kunsthåndverk.
Friis, Joachim Aagaard. 2021. Queer temporalitet: et forskningshistorisk rids. Slagmark, 83: 137-154.
Friis, Joachim Aagaard. 2021. Et parallelunivers mellem kunst og liv. Kunsthåndverk.
Friis, Joachim Aagaard. 2021. En dansende og legende kritik. Kunsthåndverk.
Friis, Joachim Aagaard. 2021. På sporet af det ubegribelige. Kunsthåndverk.
Friis, Joachim Aagaard. 2021. Negotiations of In/Visibility: Surveillance in Hito Steyerl's How Not to be Seen. Surveillance & Society, 19(1): 69-80. DOI: https://doi.org/10.24908/ss.v19i1.13950.
Friis, Joachim Aagaard. 2018. Læsning: Shekufe Tadayoni Heiberg: Æg. Friktion, ed. Nazila Kivi.
Friis, Joachim Aagaard; Schyum, Ida. 2018. What the worm, the ant and the tree taught us. Multispecies Festivities, ed. Ida Bencke & Dea Antonsen, Laboratory of aesthetics and ecology. https://hydra.hotglue.me/?Multispecies+Festivities/.