Lise Tovesdatter Skou is a Danish performance and video artist, currently a stipendiat at Kunstakademiet - Institutt for samtidskunst, KMD/UiB. In the Monday Lectures Skou will discuss her work on feminist economies and her approach to creating non-hierarchical, sustainable and experimental economies – through her interest in value, hidden labour and care. Throughout the years she has initiated a range of long-term transdisciplinary art projects focusing on hidden economies, the value of the work we do and our time. Her approach is to begin to transform the capitalist economy from within, through creative artistic projects and initiatives. She asks questions such as: How and where are people creating economies that ignore the dominant economic system? How do these shared, exchange based, micro-local economies function? What do they look like? Are they temporary or are they sustainable? And how can we work with this as artistic practice? 

Lise Tovesdatter Skou is educated from Funen Art Academy (DK), Whitney Independent Study Programme i New York and  University of Aarhus. She graduated in 2004 and she has exhibited at large galleries and museums in Denmark and abroad. Besides she has initiated and run numerous long-term transdisciplinary projects i.e. Swop Projects (2003-2010), Trade Test Site (2015-2019). She has published books and contributed texts to catalogues and anthologies such as 'Destituent Bodies’ (booklet 2024); ’The Emergence of a Manifesto for the art worker, the defeated and the silent’ (Essay 2021);   ‘I am also Adam Smiths Mother, (Essay Free Berlin 2019), ‘We all suffer from capitalism, but refuse treatment’ (book 2014). In the coming year, she will exhibit Fight to the Deaths With Clubs at Randers Kunstmuseum; Divergent Care - Resonating  Parasocial Relationscapes - a public space exhibition in Copenhagen; and she will be presented in a solo exhibition Outside the Realm of the Human at Augustiana Kunsthal in Sønderborg, DK. In 2024 she received a three-year work grant from the Danish Arts Foundation.

The lecture is held at Knut Knaus Auditorium, Møllendalsveien 61. The location has step free access. The lecture is held in English and is free and open to all.

Monday Lectures is a public platform combining invited guest lecturers and professors and researchers of the faculty at KMD. Monday Lectures aim to create a diverse programme of lectures exploring a wide range of disciplines and research topics. Lectures typically take place on Mondays at 10:00 at the Knut Knaus Auditorium and are free and open to all.