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2026

• KIN Museum, Kiruna. Film screening, talks, panel discussion. Anna Ådahl (AÅ) and Stefan Jonsson (SJ). — Feb. 2026


• Filmform, curated filmprogram on the thematics of Collective Agency, AÅ and SJ — 2026  




           
2025

• Collective Agency in an Era of Authoritarian Automation, two-day symposium, film screening and seminar organised by SJ and AÅ, Royal Institute of Art and Hägerstensåsens Medborgarhus. Invited speakers: Matteo Pasquinelli, Jonathan Beller, Esther Leslie, Karin Krifors, Axel Gagge, and Blaise Kirschner — 26-27 May 2025

• Spaces of Knowledge: Art, Urban Walking and Empathetic Exchange, symposium and book launch, performance lecture by AÅ, Royal College of Art, London — May 2025

• Critical-Connective Tissue: Making Worlds with the Humanities, workshop organised by Arizona State University and Malmö University, Malmö. Performance lecture by AÅ: Porous Bodies — June 2025

• Västerås konstmuseum. Sophie Tottie and Johan Widén, ”Göra fattbart och förnimbart / Making Concrete and Conceivable”. Inaugural speech on art and democracy, SJ — 20 September 2025

• Centre for Art and the Political Imaginary, HDK-Valand, Gothenburg University and Royal Institute of Art. Keynote at Research Annual, SJ — 28 August 2025

• Norsk Teater- og Orkesterforening, Det Norske Teatret, Oslo. Keynote: “5 ting kunsten vet om demokratiet”, SJ — 7 April 2025

• Södertörn University, Higher Seminar in Aesthetics: “On the Impossible Museum of Revolutions: Notes on the Political Aesthetics of 21st Century Protests”, SJ — 27 March 2025

• Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm. Special guiding of Valeria Montti Colque’s exhibition Cosmonación – Mother Mountain, SJ— 26 March 2025





2024

• Copenhagen University, Department of Art and Culture. Infrastructure Aesthetics – Concluding seminar Art as Forum. Moderator and Respondent, SJ — 15 November 2024

• Nordic Orchestra Conference, Helsingborg Concert Hall. Keynote: “Artificial Intelligence. The Human Aspect”, SJ — 26 September 2024

• Almost Education, Boden. International Cultural Productions Education. Lecture: “Art and Imagination as a Democratic Force”, SJ — 9 September 2024

• Kungl. Konstakademien. Symposium: Den otyglade skönheten: 5 saker konsten vet om demokratin. Inledningsanförande, SJ — 4 September 2024

• Södertörn University & Hägerstensåsens Culture House. Conference Forms of Autonomy. Invited lecture: “Notes on Collective Agency and the Tweets, Drops and Masks of Freedom” SJ— 13–14 June 2024

• Kungl. Konstakademien, Stockholm. Invited speaker at the Academy’s Annual Ceremony: “Fantasins arbetsplats: några tankar om konst, politik och frihet”, SJ — 16 February 2024

• Collective Agency in an Era of Authoritarian Automation, open seminar and film screening by AÅ and SJ, Linköping University — 2024





2023

• Di-Simulated Crowds — acquisition into the permanent collection of Moderna Muséet, AÅ — 2023

• Site Zones, interview and online talk on AÅ’s research and artistic practice — 2023

• Stockholm Explorative Talks, Stockholm Academic Forum, AÅ. 

• Subjecting Matter, presentation by Anna Ådahl of artistic and research-related works, Konsthall C, curators TINK, AÅ — 2023

• Annual Research, presentation and lecture by SJ and AÅ on Collective Agency in an Era of Authoritarian Automation, Royal Institute of Art — 2023

• Art Center Rønnebæksholm, Næstved, Denmark. Workshop & lecture “Collective intelligence, Crowd Identity & Infrastructural Aesthetics”, SJ — 25 March 2023





2022

• Art for All / Konst åt Alla, group exhibition, Hägerstensåsens Medborgarhus, AÅ — 2022

• Digital Us / T-pose, sculpture installation, Nybroplan, Stockholm Konst, AÅ — 2022

• Hägerstensåsens Culture House. Book launch of Stefan Jonsson’s Den otyglade skönheten, SJ — 9 September 2022

• Nobel Symposium / Riksbankens Jubileumsfond. Conference “(World) Literature and the Problem of the Universal” — Invited paper, SJ — 17–19 August 2022

• Linköping University, Tema Q Conference. “The Transmediation of the 21st Century Crowd” , SJ — 26–28 April 2022





2021

• Rencontres Internationales Berlin, film screening and discussion, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, AÅ — 2021

• Walkative Society, Royal College of Art/Birckbeck University, online lecture, AÅ — 2021

• Universität Bamberg / Siegen. Workshop “Armut und Menge” — Keynote: “Crowds, Subalternity and Political Emergence…”, SJ — 4 November 2021