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Public conversation between Frida Sandström and Kajsa Dahlberg (High Sensitivity Media Group). Opening the program at Astrid Noack’s Atelier, Sandström and Dahlberg will interweave their practices and thinking of transcription and film in conversation, moving from cinema archives to the Italian 1970s and back.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.
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.
Still image from 'Coenaesthesis – It Is Not Even True That There Is Air Between Us', Kajsa Dahlberg, 2023.
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Astrid Noacks Atelier, Copenhagen, Copenhagen , Denmark
