Author: Tessa
Multispecies Storytelling in Sweden
Earlier this year I had the opportunity to present a new performance-lecture in collaboration with Sumugan Sivanesan – on behalf of the T. Rudzinskaite Memorial…
Cookbook’19, Montpellier
Next week in Montpellier, with Valentina Karga and assorted local microorganisms and humans, I’ll be presenting our project La fermentation de la terre as part of…
2086 T. Rudzinskaitė Memorial Amateur Lichenologists Society Field Trip & Picnic
Last month I collaborated with Sumugan Sivanesan on an SF storytelling/political therapy picnic. It was part of Nida Art Colony‘s 8th Inter-format Symposium, On Rites…
La fermentation de la terre, Treignac Projet
I’ve just spent a week lacto-fermenting local things underground with Valentina Karga and a host of micro-organisms at Treignac Projet, in the south of France. It…
mushroom days at the end of the world
This (european) autumn & winter I was lucky to be in Finland – where it gets really cold – in the Australia Council residency at…
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…
Making Time as book
Making Time made a book! It’s a preserving cookbook, collection of notes and correspondences, set of drawings, reflection on the project so far and a…
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…
Micro-economies and self-publishing in Mexico
Some months ago I was invited to join Marjetica Potrč’s ‘Design for the Living World’ social design class in Mexico. I worked with them in Belgrade…