Eva la Cour-Nielsen

Eva la Cour-Nielsen is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen (2025-2027), associated with CAPE. Trained as a visual artist, she conducts research at the intersection of academic practice and imagemaking, focusing on interdisciplinary collaborations in Arctic regions to address colonial histories and environmental changes in West Greenland and Svalbard.

Her educational background includes:

• PhD in research in artistic practice from the University of Gothenburg (2022)
• MA in visual and media anthropology from Freie Universität Berlin (2010-2012)
• Graduate studies at the Jutland Art Academy (2005-2010)

Her research critically examines how arts-natural science collaborations can produce situated rhetorics that challenge conventional climate crisis narratives through process-oriented filmmaking. She investigates ideological scaffoldings in Western science and explores relational image practices in Arctic contexts, emphasizing incongruous and sensitive expressions over self-righteous rhetoric.

Analysis of her 2023 publications reveals cohesive exploration of Svalbard's Arctic imaginaries, guide figures, and historical visual documentation. The works consistently bridge visual culture, anthropology, and environmental studies, examining colonial entanglements and interdisciplinary knowledge production in polar regions.

She leads the Novo Nordisk Foundation-funded project "Scenes of Fieldwork" (2025-2027), collaborating with marine biologists in West Greenland to investigate editorial authorship as a form of interdisciplinary expression. Her work emerges from long-term collaborative constellations beyond traditional academic frameworks.

Associated with CAPE and previously with the "Art as Forum" research center, she engages in international exhibitions and performances while working with Arctic research teams. Her practice integrates academic research with artistic production through sustained interdisciplinary partnerships.