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When I see Buddha

By Tessa 7 January 2025 ... reviews, WRITING
When I see Buddha

DAS GLÜCK IST NICHT IMMER LUSTIG (Happiness is not always fun) Rirkrit Tiravanija Gropius Bau, Berlin 12 September 2024 – 12 January, 2025 [Published in Art Asia Pacific, January 2025] There…

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On Worlds Undone

By Tessa 9 November 2024 ... reviews, WRITING
On Worlds Undone

A World Undone Nicholas Mangan Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney 5 April – 30 June, 2024 [Published in Art Asia Pacific no. 140, September 2024] In a public conversation accompanying…

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Then the Letting Go

By Tessa 31 May 2024 ... essays, ... reviews, WRITING
Then the Letting Go

Forever’s Gonna Start Tonight Aaron Aryadharma Matheson 23 May – 15 June 2024 Liverpool St. Gallery, Sydney [First published in 2024 as catalogue essay for Forever’s Gonna Start Tonight, Liverpool St. Gallery]…

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Feminist Infrastructure for Better Weathering

By Tessa 2 November 2021 ... journal articles, PROJECTS, Weathering, WRITING No Comments
Feminist Infrastructure for Better Weathering

[co-authored with Jennifer Hamilton & Astrida Neimanis, published Oct 2021 in Australian Feminist Studies online] ABSTRACT: Big infrastructure responses to climate change seek to protect the heteropatriarchal capitalist status quo.…

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Gardening Essentials / in Uncertain Arrangements with Ghosts, Among Others

By Tessa 12 October 2020 ... essays, WRITING No Comments
Gardening Essentials / in Uncertain Arrangements with Ghosts, Among Others

[Published in Judith Wielander & Gilly Karjevsky (eds.) Parckdesign 2016: Jardin Essentiel, Parckdesign, Brussels, 2020. The book documents Jardin Essentiel, a public art project with medicinal herb garden and distillation…

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Creole Gardens: Growing Otherwise

By Tessa 4 October 2020 ... essays, Creole gardens, PROJECTS, WRITING No Comments
Creole Gardens: Growing Otherwise

[Originally published in Hans Ulrich Obrist and Asad Raza (eds.) Mondialité Or the Archipelagos of Édouard Glissant, Brussels, Skira/Boghossian Foundation Villa Empain, 2017. Also translated into French for the French…

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Valentina Karga: Energies in Common

By Tessa 3 February 2019 ... other, WRITING No Comments
Valentina Karga: Energies in Common

[First published October 2018 in HFBK’s Lerchenfeld Issue 45] It was some months before I realised that ‘banana-mami’ was in fact ‘banana mummy’. Valentina had been talking about the energetic…

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The Disappearance of the Sea and its Fantasmatic Recovery in Berlin, of all places!

By Tessa 1 March 2018 ... reviews, WRITING No Comments
The Disappearance of the Sea and its Fantasmatic Recovery in Berlin, of all places!

[Originally published in Dear un 22/2/18] I’m looking through a tiny window at the silvery surface of the sea roughly 10,000 metres below. I don’t know where I am, or…

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documenta 14: art of the (im)possible

By Tessa 23 August 2017 ... reviews, WRITING No Comments
documenta 14: art of the (im)possible

­­­ [Originally published 2017 in Broadsheet Journal 46.2] The fourteenth edition of documenta opened for the first time in Athens this April, two months ahead of a second opening in its customary…

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Sitting around digital fires | (no)action(no)space in Schloss—Post

By Tessa 18 June 2017 ... other, (no)action(no)space, NEWS, WRITING No Comments
Sitting around digital fires | (no)action(no)space in Schloss—Post

Last year I took part in the beginnings of (no)action(no)space, a collaborative research platform distributed over time and space, involving a shifting group of about 7 artists and initiated by Laura Bernhardt.…

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SOME WORKS

  • Photosynth Social Club: Summer Beat Camp & Sound Bathhouse 2091
  • Rites of Passage
  • Mushroom Trading Post
  • Breathe Together ∞ Aspergillus Tubingensis
  • Extinction Club Reading Group
  • La fermentation de la terre
  • Micro-economies of San Francisquito
  • Miracle Mountain
  • Plan Bienen
  • Making Time
  • Kauri-oke!

... & elsewhere with others

  • Cloudship Press
  • Collective Disaster
  • Frontyard Projects
  • T. Rudzinskaite Memorial Amateur Lichenologists Society
  • Weathering
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