Ant-Acacia Multispecies Yoking
“The more one looks, the more the name of the game of living and dying on earth is a convoluted multispecies affair that goes by the name of symbiosis, the […]
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Improvisational Performances of Knowing
According to physicist and science and technology scholar Andrew Pickering, research is a dance of agency: activities of trying to grasp dynamic processes unfolding between entities that are related and […]
Environmental Performance
Do ants, clouds, wind, plants and other non-human actors perform? This video continues my aesthetic inquiry into environmental performance and how ants, clouds, plants and other non-human actors are enrolled […]
Scientia and the Schizoid Split
Lone Star Swan figures in Chapter 1 in Donna Haraway’s book Staying with the Trouble. He was a homeless man living in the Mission District in San Francisco. A mural Bird Man […]
Impetus
Video stills from ‘Impetus’ (Fyn, 2017). Exhibition view of Impetus (2017) and Exchange (2017) at SAK, Fyn.
Monster in Abyss with Falling Feather
Mixtures, fluidity and in-betweenness is a recurrent theme of my research: working with monstruous mixtures – with impurity, hybridity, polyphony and ambivalence. This is articulated in a work of scholartistry […]
Knowledge Catcher
Knowledge is co-constituted by the forms in which it is developed and communicated. For our research article “Knowledge Catcher: On the performative agency of scholarly forms” Julie Bønnelycke and I […]
Does It Spark Joy?
Design and Innovation with Care “Design should care about the human, about all sorts of human and more-than human interactions, about the coherence of societies and about the environment, our […]
Suspended Animation
Suspended Animation: A Foot, A Leg, A Head & A Wing (2017) from Kong Lear on Vimeo. During an excursion to York, research colleague Matthew Reason took us to a […]
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