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Art School Courses
In 2024 - 2025, I teach the Performative Costume Design as part of the course Radical Thinking, designed by Carly Everaert. In the module, Scenography and Mime students collaborate together, embodying creative questions and expressions in a critical way. Besides this I have an advisory role for the Scenography departement development.
In 2023, I taught Future Fields at BEAR, ArtEZ, Arnhem (NL). A 6-week course that considered how speculative futures can contribute to new relations with the land, and "new" ways of living, prompted by ongoing climate and societal change. From macro to micro, from big dreams to significant details; we asked who and what to consider while "designing" the future. In the course, in which I collaborated with Four Siblings project, students consider art-making, filmmaking, writing, farming, land-skills, story-telling and rituals as tools to conjure more just futures.
In 2021 - 2022, I taught Community of All Beings and Future Fields at the Ecology Futures MA, MIVC|St. Joost, Den Bosch (NL). Both focus on the development, contemplation and materialization of 'progressive' more-than-human futures. Students investigate the western concept of ‘nature’ and how it creates false dichotomies. They look at a queering of the world, investigate colonial and industrial sentiments hidden in futurisms, and explore ontologies that surpass western ways of seeing things.
Workshops & Symposia
As part of my month-long AiR at AIRIE Everglades (USA), I was interviewed by Miami-based artist and queer ecologist Lee Pivnik, the founder of the Institute of Queer Ecology. In the talk, hosted by Arsimmer McCoy at downtown Greenspace Miami, I share about my recent art projects, Wetlands Worship, and my time in the Everglades.
I spoke at the EARTHBOUND "Sensuous knowledge and the planet’s future" Symposium; a program created by Earthwise Denmark, in collaboration with Aarhus University. Participants took part in a 7-day workshop event, ending with 2 days of talks and discussion with me, artist Katarina Skår Lisa, Christine Fentz, and scholar Liisa-Rávná Finbog. In 2025 and 2027 I return to this symposium.
Here, I contributed to EARTH CRAFT at the Studium Generale of the Royal Academy of Arts, The Hague. I hosted dialogues with great minds such as Vandana Shiva and Zhenevere Sophia Dao. Together with academic-activist Victoria McKenzie, I offered a workshop ritual in which we built 'Future Soil'.
Here, I created the weekend symposium Is Soil Sacred? as part of my solo-show at MU, Eindhoven. Victoria McKenzie, Georgia Kareola and myself held a discursive conversation, and later offered a music-ritual in which audiences entangled themselves with soil. The exhibition furthermore featured a library table with over 40 titles focused on soil belonging and entanglements with the more-than-human curated by Angelique Spaniks and myself.
I offered the workshops How to Become a Soil Priestess? in collaboration with Mister Motley and RE_NATURE. In this workshop, participants explored how artistic practices and ecological knowledge can be applied through the creation of a performative "priestess" persona.
Some of my artistic work is included in the online course created by Anouk Mulders for ArtEZ Studium Generale, Arnhem. The course is still available here.
Other Contributions
2024
Mentor at Re:Opera | Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam (NL).
2022
Mentor at the Master|Apprentice project, making an exhibiton at Odapark, Venray (NL).
2022
Have we Met? MU Hybrid Art House podcast about Queer Nature, world-building, Ecofeminism and The Sacred (Dutch)
2021
My artistic work is included in REGENERART's e-learning course and textbook for European secondary school teachers.
2015
Guest Tutor at Sandberg Institute's CURE MASTER (NL)
2015
Guest Speaker at University of Amsterdam Primitivism in the Arts | Art History (NL)
2011 - ∞
Studio visits at the Fine Arts departments of Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht, ArtEZ Arnhem, and KABK The Hague (NL)