When
Where CAPIm Research Annual 2025
Warmly welcome to the first annual symposium of the Centre for Art and the Political Imaginary in Gothenburg on the 28 and 29 of August 2025. Local, national and international artists, researchers and educators gather in Skeppet GBG and Bergsjön Kulturhuset to think together about ways in which art, politics and imagination might shape the futures we want – or end up creating the ones that we fear.
Our focus is on how artists in their work and reflections explore the relationship between politics and imagination. What does such artistic exploration make possible and what is the meaning of all of this for the wider community that art makers exist in? For whom, and by whom, are questions of political imagination raised in art? How can artistic research contribute in a meaningful way to the collective discussion of possible political futures?
We suggest that such an engagement is not only contributing to the creation of possibilities, but that it also comes with a number of limitations and risks. Together, both specialists and non-specialists, we want to reflect on the responsibilities that this turn towards the future means for arts role in society today.