SELECT EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
2019-2023 PhD candidate at University of New South Wales in Art and Design department
2022-2023 Guest lecturer and tutor at University of Sydney, Masters of Curatorial Practice and Art History department
2020-2022 Lecturer at Stockholm University in the Aesthetics Department in the Masters of Curating Art, including course leader and head lecturer Audiences and Participation
2016-2022 Lecturer at Stockholm University of the Arts, in the Dance Department, teaching art theory, writing
2018-2020 Curator, developed the Art and Research program at Accelerator Konsthall, Stockholm University
2013-2018 Curator of Learning and Curator at Index Foundation, Stockholm
2013-2016 Freelance writer and regular contributor for Art Forum, New York
2010-2013 Manager of Artist Development, Melbourne Fringe, Melbourne
2008-2012 Co-founder and Editor in Chief of art publication, Das Superpaper and online platform, Das Platform
SELECT EDUCATION
PhD Candidate The Hydrocene: Curatorial theory of art, water and the climate crisis in eco-aesthetics Supervisors: A/Prof Felicity Fenner and Dr Clare Milledge, Doctoral researcher within Art, Design and Media, University of New South Wales. Sydney/Stockholm, Feb 2019 – Feb 2023
Mejan Resident, Post-graduate ‘Advanced Level’ artistic research position (60 credit points) Royal Academy of Art, Stockholm, Sept 2014 – June 2016
CuratorLab, Curatorial research program (60 credit points) Konstfack University College of Arts, Crafts and Design, Stockholm, Sept 2013 – June 2014
Curators Program, 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney with Chinese curator Qui Zhijie, organized by then 4A Director Aaron Seto, Sydney, Jan 2012 – Sept 2012
Curatorial Mentorship, Next Wave Festival and Gertrude Contemporary with Alexie Glass-Kantor at Gertrude Contemporary, organized by Artistic Director of Next Wave Festival Emily Sexton, Melbourne, June 2011 – June 2012
Masters of Arts Administration, University of New South Wales, Sydney. Including special project and internship with curator Felicity Fenner, Venice Biennale, Venice and Sydney, Jan 2008 – June 2010
Bachelor of Fine Arts & Bachelor of Arts, College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Double degree in Time Based Arts and Film, Performance and Theatre, Jan 2003 – Dec 2007
SELECT CURATORIAL PRACTICE
2024 – Keynote lecturer at the conference 𝘋𝘌𝘌𝘗 𝘚𝘌𝘈 𝘉𝘈𝘉𝘐𝘌𝘚: 𝘕𝘈𝘝𝘐𝘎𝘈𝘛𝘐𝘕𝘎 𝘉𝘌𝘛𝘞𝘌𝘌𝘕 𝘋𝘠𝘚𝘛𝘖𝘗𝘐𝘈𝘚 𝘈𝘕𝘋 𝘜𝘛𝘖𝘗𝘐𝘈𝘚 𝘍𝘖𝘙 𝘛𝘏𝘌 𝘉𝘓𝘜𝘌 𝘗𝘓𝘈𝘕𝘌𝘛 with my talk
𝑺𝑶𝑨𝑲𝑰𝑵𝑮 𝑰𝑵 𝑻𝑯𝑬 𝑯𝒀𝑫𝑹𝑶𝑪𝑬𝑵𝑬 𝑨𝑺 𝑫𝑰𝑺𝑹𝑼𝑷𝑻𝑰𝑽𝑬 𝑬𝑷𝑶𝑪𝑯
2022/23 – Undercurrents exhibition, Penrith Regional Gallery, contributor with installation, performance and workshop, Precipitating the Hydrocene
2022 – Biennale of Sydney: rivus, contributor with talk and sound walk , I’m raining in your lungs
2022 – High Tide Fine Line exhibition curator, Art Lab Gnesta, Stockholm
2021 – Soil Symposium, curator, at Accelerator, Stockholm University with Kultivator artist and agriculture collective, Janna Holmsted and Malin Lobell
2020 – A Golden Age: Pulse, Throb, Drift, solo exhibition and public program of Rosana Antoli, Centro Centro, Madrid
2020 – Precipitational Learning in the Hydrocene, conference presentation and peer-reviewed journal article for ACUADS (Australian Council of University Art + Design Schools), Australia
2020 – Art + Research: Art and Walking, program for Accelerator, Stockholm University promoting transdiciplinary thinking departing from Tino Seghal’s work, This progress.
2020 – Art + Research: Progress and Collaboration, program for Accelerator, Stockholm University promoting transdiciplinary thinking departing from Tino Seghal’s work, This progress.
2019 – Art + Research: On Deep Time in conversation with Prof. Christina Fredengren in relation to Cyprien Gaillard’s exhibition at Accelerator
2019 – Djup Tid, exhibition with artists Lina Selander and Oscar Mangione, Sam Smith, David Haines and Joyce Hinterding, Sormlands Museum, Nykoping
2019 – Within Deep Time, exhibition and public program, Blue Mountains Cultural Centre, Sydney
2019 – Roxy Farhat, solo exhibition and public program, Index, Stockholm
2018 – Seminar curator, The Urge, The Echo: Reverberations of Learning Practices, Index, Stockholm.
2018 – Group Exhibition, And Tomorrow And, Index, Stockholm artists include The Otolith Group, Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens, Ursula Biemann, Jess Johnson and Simon Ward, Kati Roover, Sonia Leber and David Chesworth, Soda_Jerk and Laura Gustafsson and Terike Haapoja
2018 – Artificial Iris exhibition with artists Emmeli Person and Emelie Carlen, Peryton, Copenhagen
2018 – Curator of Festival, Letting The Days Go By, with artists Poste Restante, Kasia Wolińska & Frida Sandstr.m, Ana- Maria Hadji-Culea, Index, Stockholm
2018 – Performance event, Proposal for a Dancing Musuem, DOCH and Index, Stockholm
2018 – Liz Rosenfeld, Fuck Tree, artist talk and screening program, Film i Samtidskonsten, Stockholm
2018 – Janine Randerson, Waiho, Retreat, screening program, Bolin Centre for Climate Research, Stockholm
2016 – Penelope and Lucinda, multi-channel video work and performance with Iris Smeds and Anna Kinbom, Galleri Mejan, Stockholm
2015 – Chantel Ackerman, talk and exhibition, Film I Samtidskonsten, Gerlesbergskolan, Bohuslan, Sweden
2014 – Prufrock (in three acts) with The Centre for Inefficiency (Storkyrkabadet, Index and Gallery Konstfack) Stockholm
2012 – The Specialists, curator with TLR Collective, Blindside, Melbourne
2012 – Bellowing Echoes, Gertrude Contemporary with Jess Johnson, The Slow Art Collective and Marcin Wojak. Co-curator with Marcel Cooper Next Wave Festival, Melbourne
2011 – Panoramarama, with TLR Collective, Somewhere Gallery, Melbourne
2010 – Assistant Curator Continuum – Traditional Practice in Contemporary Art, The Paper Mill, Sydney artists include Bindi Cole, Marilyn Timbery, Zerah Ahmed, Jenny Ellis
2009 – Assistant to Curator Felicity Fenner, Once Removed, Venice Biennale, Venice with artists Vernon Ah Kee, Ken & Julie Yonetani, and Claire Healy & Sean Cordeiro
SELECT UNIVERSITY TEACHING AND CONFERENCES
2022 – Journal article, ‘WAVES AS A HYDRO-CHOREOGRAPHIC MATERIAL IN THE HYDROCENE’, Maska Journal, Volume XXXVII., issue 211-212 (Winter 2022)
2022 – Conference paper, ‘The seismograph and the sniffer dog feel their feelings’, Nature Feelz, University of Sydney, Sydney Environment Institute
2022 – Conference paper, ‘Brewing as a Wet Methodology’, Public Pedagogy: forms of togetherness, ACUADS Conference
2022 – Guest lecturer for the Dutch Art Institute (DAI) Roaming Academy ‘The Covent of the Care-full’
2020-2022 – Lead lecturer and supervisor for Audiences and Participation 7.5 credit course, designing course, inviting guest lecturers and lecturing for the International Masters in Curating Art, Stockholm University
2019-2022 Lecturer Hydrocene: eco-aesthetics and water relations, with Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm
2021 – Conference paper Streams Environmental Humanities Conference, paper entitled, More-than-humans as artistic collaborators in the Hydrocene
2021 – Guest lecture and talk with artist Signe Johannesson at festival Explorations of Now
2021 – Lecture for art history Artists Writing Art, with Nina Stromqvist, Sydney University
2021 – Lecture on Hydrofeminism in Practice/Praxis as part of Water @ Weld
2021 – Lecture for Tensta Konsthall on water based art mediation
2021 – Lecture at architectural firm Kjellander Sj.berg, Stockholm on the Hydrocene – water, art and climate
2021 – Lecture for law class, Pace University, New York, with Professor Jason Czarnezki, on Water Politics
2021 – Developed and taught Curating the Climate Crisis at Stockholm University, Masters of Curating Art
2020 – Lead lecturer and supervisor for Methods and forms of writing in relation to artistic practice course, Dance Department, Stockholm University of the Arts
2020 – Guest lecturer at:
Masters of New Performative Practices, Uniarts Stockholm
Dance Department, Uniarts Stockholm
Curating in Context EU program, with Uniarts Stockholm
Lina Selander’s professors group, Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm
Phd Opponent to choreographer Eleanor Bauer, MDT and Uniarts Stockholm
2020 – Curatorial mentorship for students in International Masters in Curating Art, Stockholm University and Masters of Curatorial Practice, University of Bergen
2020 – Teaching text and writing as guest lecturer and supervisor in 2nd Year Course Specialisation, Stockholm University of the Arts
2019/20 – Guest lecturer and supervisor in the Circulating Book Project, Stockholm University of the Arts, Dance Department
2019/2020 – Curatorial mentorship for internship student, Masters in Curating Art, Stockholm University, within Art+Research program at Accelerator, Stockholm University
2019 – Guest lecturer within Narratives of Ecology media course, Södertörn University
2019 – Examinator and opponent, masters students in curatorial practice and visual communication, Konstfack and Stockholm University
2016, 2017 and 2018 – Methods and forms of writing in relation to artistic practice lecturer, Stockholm University of the Arts
2018 – Intimacy and Learning workshop at Konstfack Research Week
2018 – Dancing Museums seminar series with Stockholm University of the Arts and Index
2016 – 2018 – Mentor and thesis supervision for final year Bachelor of Dance solo project, Stockholm University of the Arts
2016 – 2017 – Roaming Writing Institute, initiator and teacher of monthly art writing class to artists and cultural workers in context specific locations, Stockholm
SELECT PUBLICATIONS
2022 – Writer in OEI #94-95: geografier with how to ingest wet geographies, Sweden
2022 – Writer in Memory Art, Public Art, Statens konstråd (Public Art Agency Sweden), Sweden
2022 – Writer in Anthropocene Guide to Venice, Fritto Misto, Wetlands Publication, Italy
2022 – Writer in Klima magazine, Watery Futures, France
2021 – 2022 Editorial board for printed art journal OEI
2021 – Peer review article Revealing the Hydrocene: Reflections on Watery Research in the Arts & Cultural
Studies Review issue on Blue Humanities, Poland
2021 – Contributing writer for book with artist Signe Johannesson, titled Trophy, Sweden
2021 – Contributing writer for book with artist Rosana Antoli, titled Rosana Antoli, Spain
2021 – Essay for Precious Balance Walk, directed by Felicia Konrad, presented at Malmo Konsthall and GIBCA
2019-2022 – Writer for C-Print Journal including reviews of 58 and 59th Venice Biennale, Lulea Biennale
2017-2019 – Editorial board for printed art journal, Oberon, Australia/Denmark
2010-2014 – Regular writer for ArtForum including reviews of Tensta Museum, Mika Rottenburg, Yvonne Todd and Myers+Walsh, New York
2008-2012 – Various articles for printed art journal, Das Superpaper, Australia
Extra links to professional practice:
Teacher at University of Sydney in the ‘Masters of Curating Art’ in the Contemporary Curating course and in the Art History course Shock of the Now: Global Art since 1900
Writer in Klima Magazine: Liquid Futures with the piece entitled I’m raining in your lungs: a precipitational score for the Hydrocene June 2022
Writer in the new publication on Memory Art from Statens konstråd (Public Art Agency Sweden) Sept 2022
Contributor to the Biennale of Sydney: rivus, Sydney March-June 2022 with School of Water with the sound walk I’m Raining in Your Lungs
Guest Lecturer for the Dutch Art Institute (DAI) Roaming Academy for 2022 with The Covent of the Care-full
Curator of the exhibition High Tide Fine Line at Art Lab Gnesta with artists Cara Tolmie, Emmeli Person and Sara Ekholm Eriksson, opens May 2022
Writer in OEI #94-95: geografier with the text Cannibalism in Venice (or how to ingest wet geographies), launched March 2022
Published peer review article ‘Revealing the Hydrocene: Reflections on Watery Research’ in the Arts & Cultural Studies Review issue on Blue Humanities, Nov 2021
Course leader and head lecturer for ‘Methods and Forms of Writing’ course at SKH, Stockholm University of the Arts, Nov 2021
Course leader and head lecturer ‘Audiences and Participation’ course, Stockholm University, in the International Masters of Curating Art program, August-Nov 2021
Essay for the film Precious Balance Walk, directed by Felicia Konrad, presented at Malmo Konsthall and GIBCA, Sept and Oct 2021
Lecture for Tensta Konsthall art mediation program, Sept 2021
Public talk and collaboration with artist Signe Johannesson at festival Explorations of Now on the hydrocene and artistic practices of the swamp, August 2021
Conference paper presentation at the Streams Environmental Humanities Conference, August 2021, paper entitled, More-than-humans as artistic collaborators in the Hydrocene
Lecture for art history class, Sydney University, on Artists Writing Art, with Keith Broadfoot and Nina Stromqvist, August 2021
Ground Water audio walk and talk with artist Liz Rosenfeld as part of Hållning at MDT
In conversation with Pontus Petterson on Hydrofeminism in Practice/Praxis as part of Water @ Weld, June 2021
Lecture at architectural firm Kjellander Sjöberg, Stockholm on the Hydrocene – water, art and climate in practice, June 2021
Journal article on Blue Humanities, with Arts and Cultural Studies Review
Lecture for law class, Pace University, New York, with Professor Jason Czarnezki, on water as collaborator, June 2021
Contributing writer for book with artist Signe Johannesson
Contributing writer for book with artist Rosana Antoli
Teaching Curating the Climate Crisis at Stockholm University, International Masters of Curating Art, Feb-March 2021
Teaching with KKH Royal Institute of Art, Lina Selander’s professor group on eco-aesthetics and water relations, November 2020, April and June 2021
Curator interviews for curatorial research project, Within Deep Time, with Nina Stromqvist
First Move, Original Rains in the Delta podcast from Index here
Reading of my essay First Move, Original Rains at Index
Curator for Soil Symposium at Accelerator
https://acceleratorsu.art/en/evenemang/artist-talk-signe-johannessen/
https://acceleratorsu.art/en/researcher-collaborations/
https://podcasts.apple.com/se/podcast/inside-tino-sehgals-this-progress/id1497507094?i=1000470746743
https://podcasts.apple.com/se/podcast/art-research-on-deep-time/id1497507094?i=1000470746742
https://acceleratorsu.art/en/evenemang/art-research-on-deep-time/
https://www.centrocentro.org/en/exhibition/golden-age-pulse-throb-drift
https://www.sormlandsmuseum.se/utstallningar/djup-tid/
https://www.peryton.dk/the-sunshine/11
http://indexfoundation.se/exhibitions/roxy-farhat-wuh-pshhh
http://indexfoundation.se/exhibitions/exhibition-and-tomorrow-and
http://bluemountainsculturalcentre.com.au/exhibition/within-deep-time-scratching-surface-antipode/
http://indexfoundation.se/talks-and-events/seminar-the-urge-the-echo
http://indexfoundation.se/publications/listen
https://www.artforum.com/picks/%C3%A0ngels-miralda-on-rosana-antoli-82561
https://www.artandaustralia.com/online/discursions/djup-tid
https://www.artforum.com/picks/and-tomorrow-and-76640
https://kunstkritikk.com/how-can-sensibility-change-after-metoo/
https://frieze.com/article/performance-and-video-artist-roxy-farhats-radical-reclaiming-camera
https://www.c-print.se/post/audible-attentions-of-the-lule%C3%A5-biennial-time-on-earth
https://acuads.com.au/conference/article/precipitatinal-learning-in-the-hydrocene/
https://www.c-print.se/post/beginning-to-erode-some-thoughts-on-hydrofeminism-in-venice
https://bronwynjean.wixsite.com/penelopeandlucinda