My work seeks to develop intimate and unsettling encounters with place. How do relations of power and domination take form – material, territorial, institutional form? How do they coalesce and endure in various forms of settler colonial place-making: in infrastructures and "natural" places, in forms of property and capitalization, in technologies of racialized expulsion, but also in stories, in structures of feeling, in modes of relation? My projects focus on the remaking of wetlands under the calculative logic of offsetting and on glacial narratives as entangled with racialization, settlement and property-making.
The practice of creative research involves developing publications, video essays, installations, media/web platforms and inviting people on experimental learning walks. The work takes place in different institutional and counter-institutional settings: museums, universities, art centers, community spaces, squats and in the streets.
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