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~ ( Ö r Ö ) ~

By Tessa 7 January 2025 MOVEMENTS, Mushroom Trading Post, NEWS, PROJECTS
~ ( Ö r Ö ) ~

I spent November at ÖRES, a residency on the remote island of Örö in the Finnish archipelago, revisiting the Mushroom Trading Post project. Between editing picking stories collected over the…

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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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Breathe Together ∞ Aspergillus Tubingensis / The Things We Made Next

By Tessa 7 December 2021 Breathe Together, NEWS, PROJECTS No Comments
Breathe Together ∞ Aspergillus Tubingensis / The Things We Made Next

Last autumn I was commissioned by Assembly for the Future to make a speculative design for The Things We Made Next, a travelling exhibition that visited Alice Springs, Castlemaine and…

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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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Extinction archive at 2nd Macao Biennale

By Tessa 1 November 2021 Extinction Club Reading Group, NEWS, PROJECTS No Comments
Extinction archive at 2nd Macao Biennale

The collected archives of the Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge & its associated Extinction Club Reading Group travelled earlier this year to Macao for ‘Art Macao: Macao International Art Biennale…

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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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Lichen on the airwaves

By Tessa 8 October 2020 NEWS, PROJECTS, T. Rudzinskaite Memorial Amateur Lichenologists Society No Comments
Lichen on the airwaves

In August I made an experimental radio piece with Sumugan Sivanesan across time zones and continents for Mustarinda’s Lichen Fest #2, a festival celebrating the 10 year anniversary of this…

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Reading Together on Extinction in Beijing

By Tessa 7 October 2020 Extinction Club Reading Group, NEWS, PROJECTS No Comments
Reading Together on Extinction in Beijing

I spent the second half of 2018 at the Institute for Provocation (IFP) in Beijing, China, via the Australia Council International Residencies program. Apart from eating noodles, one thing I…

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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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