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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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 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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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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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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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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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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Against the pace of infinite urgencies surrounding AI and gender inequality, deceleration is embraced to read together slowly. Rather than streamlining for clarity, SLOW READERS persistently move through and engage with the quagmire.
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As of 2021, I am a Fellow at V2: Lab for Unstable Media. In the V2_Fellowships artists, curators and theorists work together with V2_, pursuing mutual knowledge and practices. The V2_fellowship program aims at advancing the work of mid-career artists, curators and theorists. Fellows are invited to launch a project or deepen their research in association with V2_ Lab, based on their expertise and their specific views on relevant discourses in the field of art, technology and society.
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Pedagogies: Committed, Critical, In the Plural, Feral, Resistant, De-colonial, Adaptive, Tactical, Practiced, Engaged, Transformative, Listening, Situated, A Work in Process, Ecological, Embodied, Embracing, Whispering, Observant, Hidden… Finding ourselves in quarantine, I made a digital scrapbook for my Critically Committed Pedagogy students reflecting on a January day we spent in my garden. In retrospect, it felt…
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RASL, Rotterdam Arts and Sciences Lab, is a consortium between Codarts, Arts & Culture Studies (EUR), Erasmus University College (EUR) and the Willem de Kooning Academy. Part of the work I do within RASL is to work with other partner institutes on an Erasmus + awarded body of research exploring transdisciplinary education combining the arts, humanities and sciences.
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Histories are woven, knotted, and impossible to disentangle. This is especially true when working through the recent past with linked threads to the present. Moving through Gisèle’s clothing and photographic archive, Turner reflects on the epistemology of the closet, the pitfalls of taxonomical fervour, and the complexity of entangled histories.
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loop during the Covid-19 lockdown. The project is a meditation on routines, and peculiarities of our previously known dailies interrupted. With animations done by Cesare Davolio, script by Renée Turner, and music by Eliot Davolio; in other words, a family endeavor, we reflect on a moment when life was no longer taken for granted, but instead became a (gif)t.
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As a part of the European Academy of Participation hosted at Herengracht 401 a group formed to take care of the very simple and practical task of preparing lunch and dinner for all those who attended. While chopping, stewing, and stirring, certain thematic trajectories intuitively emerged and were explored: Limits as possibilities Cultures of cooking…
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