Speaking

December 2023: Guest lecture at the Asymmetry International Symposium 2023 Energies of Attachment: Mapping Intimacy across Art, Science and Ecology. Courtauld Institute of Art, London. Presentation title: Soilkin: Relational Exercises with Soil and Stones

September 2023: Co-convener of the session, From soil to soiling: exploring the agency of soils across research fields. Conference Transdisciplinary in the Environmental Humanities, Oslo School of Environmental Humanities.

September 2023: Online lecture for the Field Notes Symposium of the Finnish Bioart Society. Presentation title: Soilkin: Relational Exercises with Soil and Stones.

August 2023: Short input at the Summer School for Supervising Artistic and Practice-Based Research, BAK basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht. Presentation title: On Academic Kinships.

June 2023: Conference presentation in the session, Soil Repair, at the 6th Nordic STS conference in Oslo. Presentation title: Soilkin – Relational Exercises with Soil and Stones.

April 2023: Conference presentation in the session, Matter Matters – Aesthetics and Politics of Soil. 49th Annual Conference of the international Association for Art History (AAH) 2023, University College London, UK. Presentation title: Soil Sensing – Sensory Engagement with Soils in Contemporary Art.

April 2023: Invited lecture at Plant Intelligence Workshop, FHNW Basel. Presentation title: Reflections on Plant Intelligence.

August 2022: 22nd World Congress of Soil Science. Presentation title: Soilkin – Relational exercises with soil and stones.

August 2022: Interdisciplinary Dialogue Event, Can you compost that? At Centre for Contemporary Art Glasgow, Co-organization with Dr. Anna Krzywoszynska.

June 2022: Workshop series, Temporalities of Urban Nature (TUN). Presentation title: Sky inside the Soil. With Caroline Ektander.

June 2022: Presentation at Nordic Environmental Social Science Conference: Emergency and transformation (NESS). Presentation title: Sky inside the Soil. With Caroline Ektander.

May 2022: Invited lecture at kickoff-conference, Value through Design: Beiträge zu Perspektiven Design-basierter Forschung im Kontext des Doktorats. New Design University St. Pölten. Presentation title: Mother Sister, Mentor Friend – on Academic Relationships in PhD Programs.

May 2022: Invited lecture and group exercise at Soil Interface Lab ETH Zürich. Presentation title: Soil Kinships.

May 2022: Invited lecture at Soil Symposium and Exhibition at TU-Dresden. With Gwendolin Kremer, Gerd Wessolek, Karl-Heinz Feger, Asad Rasa and Caroline Ektander.

December 2021: Moderation of Relational Landscapes Symposium with Arturo Escobar, Amy Franceschini, Giacomo Nanni, Thiago da Costa Oliveira, Lynda C. Olman, Birgit Schneider, Fidel Thomet. FhP Potsdam

October 2021: Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S), Session on Nonhuman Phenomenology and Technoscientific Intersubjectivity. University of Toronto and Online.

October 2021: Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S), Session on Composting Feminisms and Environmental Humanities. University of Toronto and Online. Presentation title:

October 2021: Participation in round table discussion at the final conference for the Erasmus+ Advancing Supervision for Artistic Research Doctorates (and beyond) 21 – 22 October, Vienna, Austria.

October 2021: Invited lecture at Symposium Landscape Today, Uniarts Helsinki. Presentation title: Field to Palette: Dialogues on Soil and Art in the Anthropocene.

May 2021: Invited lecture at EU4Art, Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden. Presentation title: Fundamentals of Artistic Research.

October 2020: Lecture performance and panel moderation, On the Recuperative Mismanagement of a Cosmopolitan Fish, with Sarah Lewison, Swan Parsons, Florian Ruland, and Andrew S. Yang; closing event of the Anthropocene Curriculum’s Shape of a Practice, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin.

July 2020: filmed Interview and presentation for the lecture series, “Heterotopie Ilmpark”, organized by Mats Wercholad, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar

May 2020: Presentation at Expert Workshop, Techniques Matter. Researching More-Than-Human Worlds, Thursday May 7, 9.30 am – 6.15 pm, Institute of Aesthetic Practice and Theory IAeP, HGK FHNW, Basel. Presentation title: The Unbearable Heaviness of Dust.

November 2019: Talk at expert workshop, in cooperation with DAAD partners at Emmanuel College, Boston and Goethe Institute, Boston. Title of presentation: Artistic Research in 3rd Cycle Degree Programs in Germany and Europe.

October 2019: Invited lecture at the international Workshop, From the coloniality of natural disaster to the planthropocene. New approaches to planetary crisis. University of Erfurt. Title of presentation: The Unbearable Heaviness of Dust – A Reflection on Ecosystem Services in Toxic Times.

September 2019: Ars Electronica, Panel Discussion, We Are Not Alone (moderated by Ursula Damm); Moderation and Organization of Ph.D. Panel Discussion, Slow Algorithms and the Hazards of Standardization

August 2019: Invited lecture at the National Botanical Garden of the United States, Washington D.C. Book launch of Field to Palette: Dialogues on Soil and Art in the Anthropocene.

June 2019: International conference, Art in the Anthropocene, at Trinity College Dublin. Presentation of co-authored paper: Feeling, breathing, seeing a troubled atmosphere: Artistic Activism in, with and against the Anthropocene. With Friederike Landau. Co-chair of the session Humans and Troubled Weather.

June 2019: Gender and Bauhaus Ringvorlesung, Bauhaus University Weimar. Co-authored performance lecture: Soil and Salad. In collaboration with Margarita Garcia, MFA.

May 2019: Postwachstum Tagung, Bauhaus Universität Weimar. Presentation of co-authored paper: Der Geruch von unruhiger Umwelt, der Sound von Smog – Künstlerischer Aktivismus gegen die Wachstumsmaschine namens Anthropozän. With Friederike Landau.

April 2019: Invited speaker at the Doctoral Symposium, Care In Action: Affect, Resistance, And The Institutional In Contemporary Artistic Research, Valand Academy University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Presentation title: Dialogues on Soil and Art in the Anthropocene.

March 2019: Guest speaker for Panel Discussion at the Italian Embassy Berlin on Italian Design Day 2019: Stadt, Design und Gesellschaft.

January 2019: Panel member of expert discussion with 20 other artists and researchers and the German President, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, and Italian President, Sergio Matterella. Open Future and the Anthropocene Project in Italy: European Culture as heritage of the future, House of World Cultures Berlin 18.01.19.

January 2019: Inaugural lecture performance at ACC Galerie Weimar: Seeds – On Boundary Objects of the Anthropocene in Visual Arts Research.

September 2018: International Workshop at Uni Vechta “Anthropocenic Turn”? Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven auf das Anthropozän-Konzept, “Seeds – On Boundary Objects of the Anthropocene in Visual Arts Research”

August 2018: Keynote Address at the 2nd International Workshop on Science and Art, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Presentation title: Research in visual arts, soil culture, urban ecology, and the Anthropocene.

August 2018: 21st World Congress of Soil Science, Rio de Janeiro. Oral presentations: Which Public? Audiences of Soil Communication from an Arts and Humanities Perspective and Visualising the soil platform function – a cultural critique of Anthropogenic soils.

July 2018: International Seminar on Biodiversity conservation for human wellbeing, International Academy for Nature Conservation, Isle of Vilm. Project Presentation title: Dust Blooms – On Ecosystem Services and Artistic Research.

May 2018: International Expert Workshop on Urban Wastelands, From horror vacui to spaces of re-enchantment: art, ecology and urban wastelands. UDK Berlin, Germany. Presentation title: Good Housekeeping – Visualizing Ecosystem Services.

July 2016: ArtScience Slam, Satellite Salon Berlin. Presentation title: Romancing the Anthropocene. In collaboration with co-authors Myriel Milićević and Herbert Lohner.

April, 2016: Lecture Performance and Seminar at the Anthropocene Curriculum “The Technosphere Issue.” Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin. Seminar title: Romancing the Anthropocene. In collaboration with Myriel Milićević, Herbert Lohner, and Elena Bougleux.

October 2015: Expert Meeting of the European Network for Soil Awareness in ISPRA, invitation by the European Union Joint Research Centre and EXPO Milano 2015. Presentation title: Soil and Art.

August 2015: Keynote Presentation at Soil and Culture, Create Bristol, UK. Invitation as part of the Soil and Culture Program of the Centre for Contemporary Art and the Natural World (CCNAW). Presentation: Soil and Art.

June 2014: Oral Presentation at 20th World Congress of Soil Science, Jeju, Korea. Presentation title: Picturing Soil – Artistic Approaches to Raising Soil Awareness.

September 2013: Oral Presentation at annual conference of the German Soil Society (DBG) Jahrestagung, Rostock, Germany. Presentation title: Anderer Zugang, Anderes Wissen – wie nehmen Künstler Boden wahr?

November 2012: Invited speaker at the First Global Soil Week Conference, Berlin, Germany. Presentation title: Raising Soil Awareness – A Menu of Artistic Approaches.

May 2012: Oral Presentation at the Expert Workshop, Neue Wege zum Bodenschutz, NNA Alfred Toepfer Akademie für Naturschutz, Schneverdingen. Presentation title: Kunst und Boden – von Aktivismus zu Umweltbildung.

July 2010: Oral Presentation at the 5th International Conference on the Arts in Society, Sydney, Australia. Presentation title: Reclaiming Urban Nature – Artistic Strategies for Environmental Communication and Conservation in Urban and Industrial Landscapes.

August 2010: Oral Presentation at the 19th World Congress of Soil Science, Brisbane, Australia. Presentation title: Soil Art – Bridging the Communication Gap.

May 2010: Oral Presentation at the first Congress on Aesthetics and Ethics in Environmental Change, Biological Station Hiddensee, Germany. Presentation title: Sculpting Justice out of Sand – Art and Soil Protection.

September 2009: International Workshop on Urban Ecology, Graduate Research Program 780/3 Perspectives on Urban Ecology III – Optimizing urban nature development in Mexico City and Berlin, Universidad national de México, Mexico City. Presentation title: Introducing Interdisciplinary Urban Ecology Research in Berlin.