Valentina Karga: Energies in Common

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…

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2086 T. Rudzinskaitė Memorial Amateur Lichenologists Society Field Trip & Picnic

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…

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La fermentation de la terre, Treignac Projet

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…

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mushroom days at the end of the world

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…

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

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…

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Making Time as book

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…

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documenta 14: art of the (im)possible

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…

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

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…

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documenta 14: Art, Athens, Austerity…

documenta 14: Art, Athens, Austerity…

 [Originally published in Runway: Conversations on May 15, 2017] _ In April of this year I found myself at the Athens opening of documenta 14, in…

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