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…

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…

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…

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…

Paris project

In the second half of 2015 I was a resident at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, beginning research for a new project, learning…

Plan Bienen: Sharing (in) the more-than-human city

[Text by Tessa Zettel & Sumugan Sivanesan; originally published 2016 in A Peer Reviewed Journal About_Excessive Research, Vol. 5, Issue 1. DARC (Digital Aesthetics Research Centre),…

Disappearing Bees

Tessa Zettel & Sumugan Sivanesan [A version of this text was published in un Magazine 9.1, June 2015. It is part of an ongoing research project,…

Plan Bienen in un 9.1

Plan Bienen, a project I’ve been developing since last year with Sumugan Sivanesan in Berlin, has led to a text co-written for the forthcoming edition of…

Making Time at Artspace

Last month the NSW Visual Arts Fellowship (Emerging) opened at Artspace. As a finalist in the show – which continues until 12 Dec – I’ve been presenting…