On Saturday, June 20th, 2026, I was part of a night of performances organised by Frédéric Van de Velde of Futura Resistenza. In total, 20 artists, each given 5 minutes, added a knot to the thread, weaving entanglements that accumulated through the evening. For the event, I created an avatar who spoke about AI, prompts,…
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The Annotated Garden & Compost weave creative non-fiction and digital dramaturgy to meditate on garden pedagogies and ecological precarity, technological acceleration, and the entanglement of environmental and machinic systems. The Annotated Garden gathers site-rooted stories from a small urban allotment in Rotterdam, a plot threatened by encroaching property development and the climate crisis. Activated through QR…
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Edited by Michelle Teran, Marc Herbst, Vivian Sky Rehberg, Renée Turner and The Promiscuous Care Study Group. (2024) How do we care for each other in our living, learning and working lives? The manual Promiscuous Infrastructures Practicing Care calls for an ethics of care and attentiveness to one another, re-imagines the making and the use of infrastructures,…
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Extract from my 2025 essay, In the Substrate: I find it revealing, if not moving, that Alan Turing’s 1950 seminal essay Computing Machinery and Intelligence was published in Mind: A Quarterly Review of Philosophy rather than in a science or mathematics journal. The learning machine, as he describes it, is not simply a servant but a pupil. As…
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In his book Landmarks, the English nature writer Robert McFarlane advocates for the creation of “a glossary of enchantment for the whole earth, which would allow nature to talk back and would help us to listen.”* While cataloguing the earth might prove too daunting, this two-day writing workshop with guests Kate Briggs and Kate Pullinger offers a modest step…
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A Two-day Quick & Earthly Prototyping Session with the Realities in Transition Artists in Residence (March 7-8, 2023) “I do believe it to be true that the land here is demonstrably alive; that it does not exist solely, or even incidentally, as a stage for the enactment of human history; that it is [itself] a…
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During quarantine, the Slow Readers met weekly from January through May 2021. Reading at a snail’s pace and experimenting with different forms of collective learning, traces were gathered into an online archive composed of notes, reading methodologies, glossaries, scraps of thoughts, and fieldnotes. While far from representing all of the group’s activities, the site captures…
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One of the challenges of making The Warp and Weft of Memory was bringing a sense of materiality to the digital. After all, clothing and textiles are tactile. Taffetas are crisp and rustle when moved, wool is rough or soft depending on how it has been treated, and silk is smooth and light to the touch.
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On Saturday, June 20th, 2026, I was part of a night of performances organised by Frédéric Van de Velde of Futura Resistenza. In total, 20 artists, each given 5 minutes, added a knot to the thread, weaving entanglements that accumulated through the evening. For the event, I created an avatar who spoke about AI, prompts,…
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The Annotated Garden & Compost weave creative non-fiction and digital dramaturgy to meditate on garden pedagogies and ecological precarity, technological acceleration, and the entanglement of environmental and machinic systems. The Annotated Garden gathers site-rooted stories from a small urban allotment in Rotterdam, a plot threatened by encroaching property development and the climate crisis. Activated through QR…
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Edited by Michelle Teran, Marc Herbst, Vivian Sky Rehberg, Renée Turner and The Promiscuous Care Study Group. (2024) How do we care for each other in our living, learning and working lives? The manual Promiscuous Infrastructures Practicing Care calls for an ethics of care and attentiveness to one another, re-imagines the making and the use of infrastructures,…
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Extract from my 2025 essay, In the Substrate: I find it revealing, if not moving, that Alan Turing’s 1950 seminal essay Computing Machinery and Intelligence was published in Mind: A Quarterly Review of Philosophy rather than in a science or mathematics journal. The learning machine, as he describes it, is not simply a servant but a pupil. As…
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In his book Landmarks, the English nature writer Robert McFarlane advocates for the creation of “a glossary of enchantment for the whole earth, which would allow nature to talk back and would help us to listen.”* While cataloguing the earth might prove too daunting, this two-day writing workshop with guests Kate Briggs and Kate Pullinger offers a modest step…
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I recently submitted a video proposal to give a talk on rendering inspired by a set of old botanical drawings. They fascinated me because, at that time, I was working with photogrammetry to document plants in my garden. With my phone and an app’s aid, I would take multiple photographs of a plant from as…
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In April 2022, the artist and writer Jouke Kleerebezem sent me a small black book. The words on the cover, to no end—the drawing that keeps on drawing, were an invitation if not a provocation. However, even with its seductive and beckoning blank pages, it was perfectly complete as an object, so much so that…
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A table can facilitate conviviality or become a dividing barrier. What are you staging: a dinner, debate, conversation, interrogation, or arm-wrestling competition? Notes on Cooking & Eating Together, Claire Binyon and Renée Turner (p.109), Avinus Academia, 2023. Together with Claire Binyon, Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Music and Performing Arts, ESMAE, Polytechnic of Porto, we…
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A Two-day Quick & Earthly Prototyping Session with the Realities in Transition Artists in Residence (March 7-8, 2023) “I do believe it to be true that the land here is demonstrably alive; that it does not exist solely, or even incidentally, as a stage for the enactment of human history; that it is [itself] a…
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In his essay, The Archival Space of Herengracht H401: Artistic Research as Productive Archiving, Lars Ebert elaborates on the layered and complex history of the house of Gisele. He also explores the archival impulse through three artists, Amie Dicke, Ronit Porat and Renée Turner, whose artistic research at H401 unveils and generates other narrative and aesthetic…
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Tuning Transdisciplinary Education is a part of a larger Erasmus+ project that took place from 2019 to 2022. Initially, we, somewhat naively, planned to design a curriculum which would lay the grounds for transdisciplinary teaching. However, as we hosted different events, conducted interviews, gathered keywords, and reviewed related literature, projects and teaching practices, we realised transdisciplinary education is…
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For many years archives are hot both as a theme of academic discussion and as a space for the creative and investigative processes of many artists. This is a stark contrast to the traditional image of an archive as a dead place or the stereotypical archivist: a grey specialist with glasses and sleeve protectors. Let’s…
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During quarantine, the Slow Readers met weekly from January through May 2021. Reading at a snail’s pace and experimenting with different forms of collective learning, traces were gathered into an online archive composed of notes, reading methodologies, glossaries, scraps of thoughts, and fieldnotes. While far from representing all of the group’s activities, the site captures…
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Situationer Workbook/Situationer Cookbook, a transformative pedagogy reader initiated by Michelle Teran and published by Research Center WdKA and Publication Studio Rotterdam publishers. Bringing together experimental practices of learning otherwise, my contribution is a letter to Michelle about the pedagogies of my kitchen.
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As a part of their inquiry, the SLOW READERS are organising a two-day event filled with afternoon collective readings and evening talks by guests Alicia Juarrero and Alexandra Mason. The aim is to sketch the scope and entanglement of AI systems to plot spaces of mobility, agency, and refusal.
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In my garden, colonial legacies reside in the hydrangeas and japonicas. They were originally brought back from Japan by Philipp Franz von Siebold who worked for the Dutch East India Company. An Acanthus mollis, whose leaves characterise Corinthian columns, continues to spread through a network of subterranean rhizomes. Abortifacients, such as Bishop’s weed, artemisia, and woodruff, are present too.
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Co-taught with Irina Shapiro, Learning with Others is a seminar in the Master Education in Arts at the Piet Zwart Institute. With sessions planned amongst flora, fauna, and fungi, the seminar focuses on how educational practices might take into account the limits of the human while imagining perspectives from others, both human and non-human. Through the theoretical frameworks of Posthumanism and New Materialism, we will be asking: How might educational practices in art academies, primary schools, museums, and communities relate to multiscale, multispecies environments and contexts?
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As a part of the publication, RASL COMPOSITIONS: Collaboration, Commitment and Creativity in Education, Robin van den Akker and I discuss the potential of transdiciplinary education and approaches. Interviewed by Inge Janse, our conversation touches upon mapping the cultural moment, responding rather than reacting to the present and critically questioning the brief when it comes…
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Irina Shapiro and I will be teaching a seminar together at the Piet Zwart Institute, Master Education in Arts. (2020) Learning with Others We find ourselves in the middle of a pandemic, a climate crisis, a migration crisis, and a crisis related to cultural and ecological urgencies. In the whirlwind of these larger forces, this…
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