Anne Ring Petersen

CV

WORK, RECENT

2019-: Professor of Modern Culture and Contemporary Art at the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen.

2004-May 2019: Associate professor of Modern Culture at the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen.

2001-2003: Assistant research professor at the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen.

EDUCATION
1995-2000: PhD fellow at the Centre of Urbanity & Aesthetics, University of Copenhagen.

1985-94: MA [mag.art.] in Art History at the Department of Art History, University of Aarhus.1991: study abroad period of one year at Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London.

NETWORKS

2010-2014 Coordinator of Network for Migration and Culture (funded by the Danish Council for Independent Research 2011-2014). From 2015 member of the network's coordination group.

COURSES

Pre-leadership programme for female researchers at the University of Copenhagen focusing on team leadership, development and career (20 August – 16 December 2015).

Primary fields of research

The visual arts from 1850 until today, particularly contemporary art; the interrelations between globalisation, migration and culture, and their transformative impact on the arts.

Fields of interest

• Contemporary art, particularly installation art and ‘global art’
• The interrelations between globalisation, migration and culture
• Cross-cultural perspectives on art and culture
• Urban studies, in particular the relationship between art and the city
• Art in public spaces
• Cultural Theory

Knowledge of languages

engelsk (4), fransk (3), tysk (3)

Teaching

Main areas: cultural theory, cultural and visual studies, visual arts and theories of art, performance theatre, globalisation and migration as formative contexts of contemporary art and culture, cross-cultural issues

Special interest in the visual arts from 1850 until today, particularly art after 1960: installation art and its connections to performance theatre and digital media; connections between art and urban culture; art in public spaces; painting in the expanded field; the interrelations between globalisation, migration and art; as well as theoretical and political issues relating to these topics.

Current research

My primary field of research is the visual arts after 1960 explored in relation to their cultural and historical contexts and in a transnational perspective. This field includes the connections between the visual arts and other artistic disciplines and cultural forms. I have focused particularly on installation art and on the connections between installation and theatre, and between installation art and digital media (the subject of my book and post-doctoral dissertation (dr.phil.) Installationskunsten mellem billede og scene (2009)/ Installation Art between Image and Stage, revised edition in English, 2015). I have also written extensively about contemporary artists from Denmark as well as painting in an expanded, intermedial field (the subject of the anthology Contemporary Painting in Context, 2010). Since 2010, I have engaged with studies in migration and culture. I explore the connections between society, migration and the arts - in particular, how migration has transformed the conditions and roles in society, as well as how migration surfaces as a politicised subject in art. My studies in migration and culture also has a focus on transnational and transcultural relations, and on issues of globalisation, postcoloniality, structural discrimination, cultural translation and diversity as well as the renegotiation of identity, history and memory under the transformative impact of migration. Last, but not least, my research explores the relationship between 'migration' and 'aesthetics'.

Since the fall of 2019, I have worked on the research project “Togetherness in Difference: Reimagining Identities, Communities and Histories Through Art” (Investigator Grant from the Novo Nordisk Foundation's Committee for Research in Art and Art History, Grant NNF19OC0053992). In times of fierce struggles over immigration and integration in Europe, when profound geopolitical shifts are restructuring the international power balances and transcultural relations of the world, this project explores how contemporary art can renegotiate identities and histories, and create new narratives of what national self-understanding, collective memory and social communities can be and embrace. The project is based on the idea of postmigration. In recent years, this concept has paved the way for a new understanding of migration and diversity as integrated aspects of any society. Specifically, the project examines how artistic and curatorial practices negotiate the societal conflicts created by the need to learn how to live together in conditions of socio-cultural diversity and difference, and how they contribute to greater inclusion and recognition of immigrants and their descendants as equal participants in democratic societies. The project explores - through art - how these processes unfold in 'post-migrant' public spaces, and it focuses primarily on Denmark, Germany and the UK.

From 2016 through 2018, I have participated in the collaborative research project "Art, Culture and Politics in the 'Postmigrant Condition',” funded by the Danish Council for Independent Research (Forskningsrådet for Kultur og Kommunikation). Based on the German concept of postmigration, the project developed a new understanding of and approach to some of the cultural changes that post-World War II population movements have brought about in European societies.For the project’s homepage, see: http://www.sdu.dk/en/om_sdu/institutter_centre/ikv/forskning/forskningsprojekter/postmigration

From 2010 through 2014, I was the coordinator of the interdisciplinary research network Network for Migration and Culture (formerly, Netværk for kulturvidenskabelige migrationsstudier). It was funded by the Danish Council for Independent Research (Forskningsrådet for Kultur og Kommunikation) from 2011 to 2014.

These projects and collaborations, along with participation in international research applications, have provided me with substantial experience in collaborative research projects and network management as well as in securing external funding and cooperation on research applications on both a national and an international level.