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When I see Buddha

7 January 2025

Tessa

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4–6 minutes

… reviews, WRITING

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 is something both thrilling and deflating about seeing historically significant…
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On Worlds Undone

9 November 2024

Tessa

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3–5 minutes

… reviews, WRITING

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 Nicholas Mangan’s comprehensive survey, underwater anthropologist Cameron Allan McKean described…
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Then the Letting Go

31 May 2024

Tessa

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4–7 minutes

… essays, … reviews, WRITING

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] Monday mid-morning and we’re at church. It’s a compact old…
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Feminist Infrastructure for Better Weathering

2 November 2021

Tessa

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1–2 minutes

… journal articles, PROJECTS, Weathering, WRITING

[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. In contrast, this article develops a theory and method of…
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Gardening Essentials / in Uncertain Arrangements with Ghosts, Among Others

12 October 2020

Tessa

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12–18 minutes

… essays, WRITING

[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 lab in Parc Duden, Brussels, on which I worked over…
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Creole Gardens: Growing Otherwise

4 October 2020

Tessa

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3–4 minutes

… essays, Creole gardens, PROJECTS, WRITING

[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 edition]. The question of how to live amongst plants must…
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Valentina Karga: Energies in Common

3 February 2019

Tessa

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5–8 minutes

… other, WRITING

[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 powers of pyramids for a while, building and testing them…
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The Disappearance of the Sea and its Fantasmatic Recovery in Berlin, of all places!

1 March 2018

Tessa

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8–13 minutes

… reviews, WRITING

[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 which ocean this is. After five straight days of lectures,…
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documenta 14: art of the (im)possible

23 August 2017

Tessa

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11–17 minutes

… reviews, WRITING

[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 home of Kassel, Germany. The exhibition is subtitled ‘Learning from…
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Sitting around digital fires | (no)action(no)space in Schloss—Post

18 June 2017

Tessa

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1–2 minutes

… other, (no)action(no)space, NEWS, WRITING

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. We first gathered around a ‘real’ fire at the Bodensee…
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