POST-FUTURE ESSAYISME (December 2025)
Post-future essayisme er et forsvar for essayfilmen som udisciplinær form og en måde at begribe og modstå lineære forklaringsmodellers historiografiske fremtidsbegreb.
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Eva la Cour (f. 1982). Som billedkunstner arbejder jeg på tværs af akademisk forskning og billedskabelse, og ofte i langvarige samarbejdskonstellationer.
Jeg har en praksisbaseret kunstnerisk ph.d. fra HDK-Valand (Gøteborg Universitet), hvor jeg, gennem eksperimenter med kollaborativ live-redigering, udforskede kunstner figurens rolle i Arktiske terræner med koloniale historier og deres sammenfiltring med nutidens økologiske og sociale kriser.
Jeg har været postdoc ved forskningscentret Kunst som Forum (Institutet for Kunst- og Kulturvidenskab, KU, 2022-2024), hvor jeg arbejdede med procesorienteret filmpraksis som undersøgende vidensform og fællesskab. Siden har jeg været postdoc tilknyttet Center for Applied Ecological Thinking (2025-2027) samt Institut for Kunst og Kulturstudier, Københavns Universitet. Min nuværende postdoc, Scenes of Fieldwork, er finansieret af Novo Nordisk Fondens stipendie til praksis-baseret kunstnerisk forskning.
I 2026 har jeg dog ulønnet orlov for at have tid til min kunstneriske praksis.
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IN ENGLISH
Eva la Cour (b. 1982). As a visual artist, I work across academic research and image-making, and often in long-term collaborative constellations.
Drawing inspiration from strategies of montage, while using both analogue film, video, text and display aesthetic elements, my spatial work and performative demonstrations are usually effects of lenghty, collaborative and multifaceted investigative processes: E.g. in the archives of the National Museum of Denmark, at a research station in Greenland or among taxi drivers on Svalbard.
Out of a fundamental dissatisfaction with the representational discourse, and its historical and colonial legacy, I have written the book Geo-Aesthetical Discontent: Svalbard, the Guide and Post-future Essayism - the result of a practice-based artistic PhD project and urge for methodological reorientation of (linear) storylines towards new constellations between thinking and image, the archive and social processes, authenticity and authorship.
This makes mediation a key term, process and milieu, and video live-editing a performative and situated cinematic expression that I keep returning to.
As part of my artistic practice I have developed a consistent writing practice, as well as a role as educator and organizer. Also I have an ongoing collaboration with artist Mia Edelgart and filmmaker Tinne Zenner. The later particularly concerning Denmark's colonial presence in Greenland - past and present.
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I am currently a postdoc affiliated with the Center for Applied Ecological Thinking (2025-2027) as well as the Department of Art and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen. My postdoc project, Scenes of Fieldwork, is funded by the Novo Nordisk Foundation's scholarship for practice-based artistic research.
Previously I have been a postdoc at the research center Art as Forum (Department of Art and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen, 2022-2024), where I worked with process-oriented film practice as an investigative form of knowledge and community.
2016-2022 I was a PhD fellow at HDK-Valand, Gøteborgs University.