Britta Timm Knudsen is professor of Culture, Media and Experience Economy, Department of Scandinavian Studies, Culture and Communication, Aarhus University.
Britta Timm Knudsen has been working on difficult heritage – Holocaust, Communism, Terrorism, Colonialism – for the last 20 years. In the past years, Britta has been part of and directed several research projects: Permeable Green City Aarhus (2014-2016), Rethinking coastal tourism – a design for new engagements (2016-2019), and ECHOES, European Colonial Heritage Modalities in Entangled Cities (H2020 2018-2021).
She was recently granted the AUFF Nova Grant to the project Playing with ghosts – affective ambivalence in decolonial art practices. The project began in 2023 and will run for 3 years.
Naja Dyrendom Graugaard is a Danish-Kalaaleq(Inuk) postdoctoral researcher at the School of Communication and Culture at Aarhus University. Naja’s research focuses on past and present colonial relations between Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland) and Denmark, Inuit knowledge and stories, and decolonizing and Indigenizing research methodologies in the Arctic.
She often draws on auto-reflexive, arts-based, and collaborative approaches as ways to unsettle colonial knowledge regimes. Besides her research, Naja also engages in different forms of public dissemination on Nordic colonial histories through debates, workshop facilitation, creative writing, and performative engagements.
Meghna Singh is an artist and researcher with a PhD in visual anthropology from the University of Cape Town, South Africa. Her work focuses on themes of human migration (historical and contemporary), globalization & critical mobilities, immersive experiences within public art and the decolonization of the digital. Working with video installation, sculpture and XR, blurring boundaries between documentary and fiction she creates immersive environments highlighting issues of ‘humanism’ through the tool of the imaginary. Her interest lies in creating public art installations that activate spaces while highlighting colonial and capitalist legacies within urban cityscapes.
She is a Fellow at the MIT Open Documentary Lab 2023-2024, a National Geographic Explorer (2019-2021), an honorary fellow at Wilberforce Institute for the study of Slavery & Emancipation, University of Hull and a fellow at the Creative Knowledge Resources, a platform for creative pedagogy and social engagement art in Africa and its diaspora. She was nominated by the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture to be an artist in residence at Indigo Art Alliance, and was a presenter at the symposium, Art in the Wake: Reckoning & Remembering, May 2023.
Singh recently codirected Container: Witness the Invisibilised with filmmaker Simon Wood. Positioned at the intersection of virtual reality and installation art, Container makes the historical contemporary by linking historical and modern slavery to capitalism. Container premiered at the 75 th International Venice Film Festival and has showcased internationally including the Tribeca Film Festival, BFI London Film Festival. It became the first VR film to be invited by the Nobel Prize Society to screen at the Nobel Week Dialogue in Gothenburg 2021.
Her work has been presented internationally including Kerkennah#1 Tunisia, Speilart Festival Munich, LIVE ART Festival Cape Town, Infecting the City Cape Town, Cittadellarte Fondazione Pistoletto Italy, Hangar Lisbon and Kashi Art Kochi. She has been awarded numerous grants and residencies by organizations such as the Wellcome Trust U.K, Oriental Foundation Lisbon, Pro-Helvetica, Smithsonian Museum, Henrich Boll Foundation and the British Council.
Abdul Dube is a multidisciplinary artist, designer, curator and workshop facilitator based in Aarhus, Denmark. His work concerns questions of multicultural belonging, racism and resistance, intersectional solidarity, heritage, sustainability, Black imagination ( droster aesthetics) and activism.
Abdul’s heritage related work includes facilitating an antiblack racism in our public archives workshop with Black Archives Sweden; teaching, writing and creating Zines for the Horizon-2020 funded project European Colonial Heritage Modalities in Entangled Cities; and Creative Liaison to the Aarhus Museum Education Department.
Founding member of Humus collective - Collective Humus wants to inspire the cultivation of collective and collaborative responses against fierce competition and regressive individualism. As Humus we want to elaborate strategies to rebuild “a world that contains other worlds,” rather than excluding those worlds and ideas that do not align with dominant views.
Aysha Amin (b. 1996) is an artist, curator and architecture student who lives and works in Aarhus. She is the co-founder and manager of art and architecture gallery Andromeda8220. She is a correspondent contributor to the architecture magazine The Funambulist (Paris), the co-curator of CAFx Aarhus Architecture Festival and project manager of Vi Fællesskaber Vores By. Since 2018 her projects have been presented in venues across Denmark and internationally, most notably at Nikolaj Kunsthal (2022), Art Hub Copenhagen (2021), in the digital platform “Hydrocapsules.love” at the 11. Berlin Biennale (2020) and in “Dimensions of Citizenship” in the United States Pavilion of the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale.
Aysha Amin is born and raised in the non-profit housing project Gellerup, west from Aarhus. Amin works questions and experiments with archiving practices, maps out politics within architecture and curates art exhibitions for the past 10 years. For the past 3 years Amin follows the city development in Aarhus with a critical, direct and curious sense, analyzing the interconenctive patterns and reoccurring tendencies in Danish housing projects development and the segregation of planning and education within urban development and architecture. For the past 3 years, developing the education program and platform Vi Fællesskaber Vores By, she advocates for more cross-disciplinary, and anti-disciplinary collaboration within city development and the importance of designing with the next generation, through decentralized hybrid perspectives.
By integrating the investor, housing associations, architects, and local expertise in a professional process based collaboration, through workshops, commissions and exhibitions – Aysha Amin displays bodies of archives where expertise is vast, patience being essential and hybridity as the collective shared reality
Britta Timm Knudsen is professor of Culture, Media and Experience Economy, Department of Scandinavian Studies, Culture and Communication, Aarhus University.
Britta Timm Knudsen has been working on difficult heritage – Holocaust, Communism, Terrorism, Colonialism – for the last 20 years. In the past years, Britta has been part of and directed several research projects: Permeable Green City Aarhus (2014-2016), Rethinking coastal tourism – a design for new engagements (2016-2019), and ECHOES, European Colonial Heritage Modalities in Entangled Cities (H2020 2018-2021).
She was recently granted the AUFF Nova Grant to the project Playing with ghosts – affective ambivalence in decolonial art practices. The project began in 2023 and will run for 3 years.
Naja Dyrendom Graugaard is a Danish-Kalaaleq(Inuk) postdoctoral researcher at the School of Communication and Culture at Aarhus University. Naja’s research focuses on past and present colonial relations between Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland) and Denmark, Inuit knowledge and stories, and decolonizing and Indigenizing research methodologies in the Arctic.
She often draws on auto-reflexive, arts-based, and collaborative approaches as ways to unsettle colonial knowledge regimes. Besides her research, Naja also engages in different forms of public dissemination on Nordic colonial histories through debates, workshop facilitation, creative writing, and performative engagements.
Meghna Singh is an artist and researcher with a PhD in visual anthropology from the University of Cape Town, South Africa. Her work focuses on themes of human migration (historical and contemporary), globalization & critical mobilities, immersive experiences within public art and the decolonization of the digital. Working with video installation, sculpture and XR, blurring boundaries between documentary and fiction she creates immersive environments highlighting issues of ‘humanism’ through the tool of the imaginary. Her interest lies in creating public art installations that activate spaces while highlighting colonial and capitalist legacies within urban cityscapes.
She is a Fellow at the MIT Open Documentary Lab 2023-2024, a National Geographic Explorer (2019-2021), an honorary fellow at Wilberforce Institute for the study of Slavery & Emancipation, University of Hull and a fellow at the Creative Knowledge Resources, a platform for creative pedagogy and social engagement art in Africa and its diaspora. She was nominated by the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture to be an artist in residence at Indigo Art Alliance, and was a presenter at the symposium, Art in the Wake: Reckoning & Remembering, May 2023.
Singh recently codirected Container: Witness the Invisibilised with filmmaker Simon Wood. Positioned at the intersection of virtual reality and installation art, Container makes the historical contemporary by linking historical and modern slavery to capitalism. Container premiered at the 75 th International Venice Film Festival and has showcased internationally including the Tribeca Film Festival, BFI London Film Festival. It became the first VR film to be invited by the Nobel Prize Society to screen at the Nobel Week Dialogue in Gothenburg 2021.
Her work has been presented internationally including Kerkennah#1 Tunisia, Speilart Festival Munich, LIVE ART Festival Cape Town, Infecting the City Cape Town, Cittadellarte Fondazione Pistoletto Italy, Hangar Lisbon and Kashi Art Kochi. She has been awarded numerous grants and residencies by organizations such as the Wellcome Trust U.K, Oriental Foundation Lisbon, Pro-Helvetica, Smithsonian Museum, Henrich Boll Foundation and the British Council.
