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Maj Ørskov

Title

Assistant Professor, Ph.d. Æstetik og Kultur

Primary affiliation

Maj Ørskov

Areas of expertise

  • Aesthetics
  • Culture
  • The Modern Middle East
  • Socio-Political Change
  • Innovative Research Practice

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Profile

I work with global contemporary art, primarily from the SWANA region. I am interested how artistic practices interact with pressing socio-political and cultural challenges such as authoritarianism, decolonialism and modern warfare. Furthermore, I work to curiously qualify and revitalize what humanistic research methods can and should do today. Finally, I have an active artistic practice as a performance poet.

Research

I am currently interested in contextualizing the ongoing war in Gaza through a series of contemporary works - primarily film and video art - by Palestinian artists. I am also writing a chapter for an anthology on Literature and Sound based on my own performative poetry practice and I am also preoccupied with editorial work on the anthology Collective Art Research. I co-direct Centre for Research in Artistic Practices under Contemporary Conditions with Jacob Lund and Tobias Dias.

Teaching activities

I have taught BA, MA, and PhD level students within the disciplinary fields of Aesthetics, Global Culture, Protest Movements, Cultural Dissemination, and Critical University Studies. Furthermore, I have 15 years of experience from teaching performance poetry and creative writing at cultural, artistic, and educational institutions. Through teaching, I am intuitively preoccupied with establishing a well-structured, participatory, and openhearted room for engagement.

Selected publications

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