Politics, Practices and Publics

Niclas Östlind is cluster leader of the research cluster Politics, Practices and Publics. Östlind holds a PhD in photography, is a curator and author. He specialises in photography, contemporary art and historiography. His research is curatorially driven and ongoing research projects include Thresholds: Interwar Lens Media Cultures. In addition to research, Niclas Östlind teaches on the master's programme in photography at HDK-Valand.
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Fredrik Svensk is an art theorist and active as a writer, critic, educator, editor and curator. His current research project is on art criticism and biopolitics. Editor-in-chief and responsible publisher of Paletten Art Journal. 
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Nina Mangalanayagam, Senior Lecturer in Photography at HDK-Valand, has worked and lived for many years in the UK, where she completed a practice-based PhD in Photography at the University of Westminster and a Masters from the Royal College of Art.
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Kerstin Hamilton is an artist, art researcher, curator and teacher. Her work explores experimental documentary photography with a particular focus on the connections between science and photography. Her current post-doctoral research project (2024-) is based on Berenice Abbott's images of scientific phenomena made at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the late 1950s. 
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Nils Olsson mainly teaches literary theory and creative writing through editorial and collective processes, with a particular focus on the materiality of literature and experimental forms of distribution. Nils is also involved in the graduate school Artistic practice.
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Mick Wilson is an artist, educator and researcher based in Gothenburg and Dublin. He is Professor of Art and Director of Studies for Research Education at HDK-Valand. He is also a board member of the Centre for Art and the Political Imaginary (CAPIm).
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Jason Bowman is an artist with a curatorial practice, who teaches and conducts research. He has been working as an artist for 30 years and comes from a working class background. Jason does research because I need systematic processes to understand the possibilities of art, and to respond to, critique and contribute to my areas of interest. He is particularly engaged with issues relating to: artist organisation, collective and collaborative practices; performance, performativity and the choreological; curatorship, art institutions and non-institutional practices; site- and context-oriented art; and social practices, participation and the production and coercion of publics and counter-publics.
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Jyoti Mistry is Professor of Film Studies and works with film both as a form of research and as an artistic practice. She has made critically acclaimed films in a variety of genres and her installation work builds on film traditions but is often reconfigured for galleries and museums beyond the linear film experience.
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