Books by Jennifer Teets
Electric Brine, 2021
Electric Brine with Dionne Brand, Barbara Orland, Sophie Lewis, Esther Leslie, Hannah Landecker, ... more Electric Brine with Dionne Brand, Barbara Orland, Sophie Lewis, Esther Leslie, Hannah Landecker, Lisa Robertson with introductions by Jennifer Teets and Margarida Mendes.
Flowing, seeping, leaking, cascading, shaping. Electric Brine is a volume of poetry and critical essays by women voices from diverse fields such as literature, geography, media studies, history of life sciences, sociology, and poetics of science and fiction, each of them central to the independent curatorial research entity The World in Which We Occur (TWWWO, 2014-ongoing) and its associated online study group Matter in Flux. Conceived as an anthology and a register, it serves as a testimony to the initiative’s long-standing work of creative adaptation and ecological inquiry through a quest to situate a vision of material politics through the lens of six punctuated pieces on flow and fluids. The literary and scientific fabulations found in these pages speak of the conjunction of lived embodiment, the materialized quality of language, and the ability to trigger political imagination through reading, writing and witnessing. Each of these strands polyperform under TWWWO, for they can be traced, retroactively, to the themes present in the live event series, to Matter in Flux’s private study sessions, to the initiative’s collective writing work presented in public venues and publications. Also included in this volume is an appendix documenting the years of invitation and study, intricately linked to the ideological praxis of these overlaps.
Editor: Jennifer Teets
Co-editors: Elise Hunchuck and Margarida Mendes
Proofreading: Gareth Hammond and Willy Smart
Design: Atelier Brenda, Sophie Keij with the assistance of Adèle Gallé and Axel Villarreal
Typeset in Stempel Garamond
Paper is Constellation Jade and Munken
Printed and bound by die Keure
160 pp. 11.8 x 19.6 cm
ISBN 978-3-948212-49-0
First edition, 500 copies.
Published by Archive Books.
Berlin, Germany, 2021.
Archive Books
Reinickendorfer Straße 17
DE 13347 Berlin
archivebooks.org
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Book Chapters by Jennifer Teets
Brochure to accompany the exhibition "Intimate confession is a project" on view at the Blaffer Ar... more Brochure to accompany the exhibition "Intimate confession is a project" on view at the Blaffer Art Museum, University of Houston, October 27, 2023 - March 10, 2024. Forthcoming publication by Inventory Press in 2024.
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Inquiries into Sculpture
Edited by Ruba Katrib. Short commentary piece. Inquiries into Contemporary Sculpture Series, How ... more Edited by Ruba Katrib. Short commentary piece. Inquiries into Contemporary Sculpture Series, How Does it Feel?, published by SculptureCenter NYC Winter 2016, examines sensory aspects of contemporary sculpture that go beyond the visual. Featuring submissions by Tauba Auerbach, Alexander Dumbadze, Casey Jane Ellison, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Gelitin, Liz Glynn, Rochelle Goldberg, Ruba Katrib, Josh Kline, Adriana Lara, Lars Bang Larsen, Lynn Hershmann Leeson, Chus Martínez, Jeanine Oleson, Magali Reus, Aki Sasamoto, Jenni Sorkin, Jennifer Teets, Anicka Yi, and Mika Yoshitake, the publication circles sculpture’s affective range and bodily evocations.
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Included in the inaugural edition of Next Spring, edited by Laura Preston, designed by Atlas Proj... more Included in the inaugural edition of Next Spring, edited by Laura Preston, designed by Atlas Projectos; published by Victoria University of Wellington and Atlas Projectos.
http://zabriskie.de/katalog/kuenstlerbuecher/paris-may-16/
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Edited by Marnie Slater, published by PAKT, Amsterdam.
"The watermelon snow obviously had a capac... more Edited by Marnie Slater, published by PAKT, Amsterdam.
"The watermelon snow obviously had a capacity for producing political vertigo when consumed. The Inuit took to ingesting it following Steinar Vika’s instructions. It was not known if the conscious act of consuming the liquor would lead to the visions or if it were a combination of the two (the thought of a potential event or the actual event itself to come). Though, various acts of struggle could be traced."
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Matter Fictions
"Matter Fictions". Edited by Margarida Mendes, published by Sternberg Press and Museu Coleção Ber... more "Matter Fictions". Edited by Margarida Mendes, published by Sternberg Press and Museu Coleção Berardo, 2017. Pages 151-159. "How can transdisciplinary research produce forms of political action and more conscious ecological creativity?" Featuring texts by Ccru, Kodwo Eshun, N. Katherine Hayles, 0(rphan)d(rift>), Jussi Parikka, Jason Waite, Ursula Biemann, Jennifer Teets, Francis McKee, Margarida Mendes, Mariana Silva, and Joana Escoval. Designed by Sena/Luz.
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Interviews by Jennifer Teets
Artist Anni Puolakka and curator/writer Jennifer Teets respectively discuss their work and resear... more Artist Anni Puolakka and curator/writer Jennifer Teets respectively discuss their work and research on lactation, nipples, and fluids as a way to engage contemporary epistemological structures – their conversation will largely ask questions around scalar thinking as a way to approach the “backstory” of
matter, combined with issues of rights, health, and ecology.
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As a Journal, 2023
Economic, political, social, and natural forces and their material effects on people, flora and f... more Economic, political, social, and natural forces and their material effects on people, flora and fauna intersect in the transcorporeality, a concept coined by the theorist Stacy Alaimo. Interviewed by curator and writer Jennifer Teets, Alaimo guides us through various navigational methods that human and non-human species might take in the growing culture of risk.
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TANK Magazine, 2021
The World in Which We Occur (TWWWO, co-founded with Margarida Mendes) began in 2014 as a live eve... more The World in Which We Occur (TWWWO, co-founded with Margarida Mendes) began in 2014 as a live event series over landline telephone hosted at such venues as the XII Baltic Triennial, CAC Vilnius; Museu Coleção Berardo, Lisbon; Fotograf Festival, Tranzit Display, Prague; and Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK. The format for these events was borrowed from James Lee Byars’ 1969 performance The World Question Center, where the artist telephoned a heterogeneous group of intellectuals to each pose a question for their time in front of a live television audience. “If the critical questions were gathered”, Byars hypothesised, “would you then have a picture of the contemporary problems of earth people?”
TWWWO thus serves to generate a “world picture” of the overwhelming crises we find ourselves in, not only by staging a discussion on the condition of social and environmental catastrophe, but also by inviting a wide-range of polymathic thinkers to demonstrate how knowledge can be put to use to critically address the world today. In this process of exploring new modes of inquiry that respond to our political and ecological challenges, it became apparent that new routines for exchange, research, and analysis needed to be formed. Hence the group Matter in Flux was born – an online monthly study group with participants from different fields across the world that combines close analysis of political, ecological and scientific works with literature and poetry. By rigorously reading a range of texts through thematic and methodological overlaps, the group examines material and metabolic exchanges that make visible the enmeshment of politics, science, and ideology. Though their emphasis is primarily on producing a space for collective detailed analysis (a rarity outside the academy), the group members have recently produced a series of collaborative written works that were recently presented as posters in the group exhibition Head With Many Thoughts at CAC Vilnius. Now on their 27th session, Matter in Flux is composed of curator Alex Alonso, health practitioner Catherine Borra, artist H.A. Halpert, artist Jason Hendrik Hansma, artist Ruth Hölfich, artist Carlos Monleón and artist Willy Smart. Recently integrated 2020 members include artist Ana María Gomez Lopez, filmmaker Eduardo Makoszay, artist Claire Pentecost, artist Georgia Sagri and curator Pip Wallis.
The curator and writer Post Brothers spoke with Jennifer Teets, curator/convener of TWWWO and Matter in Flux, about the practice of knowledge generation within the context of these interrelated formats. Their discussion also forms a preview of her upcoming book Electric Brine (published by Archive Books, Berlin).
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Who Wants to Live Forever? Podcast series produced by Kunsthall Trondheim, 2020
In this podcast episode, Kim TallBear and Jennifer Teets delve into a feminist-indigenous reading... more In this podcast episode, Kim TallBear and Jennifer Teets delve into a feminist-indigenous reading of cryopreservation, the politics surrounding genetic research, the life and not-life binary and the tension between colonial definitions of family versus indigenous notions of kinship and relations.
On the occasion of the international group exhibition Who Wants to Live Forever?, Kunsthall Trondheim presents a podcast series dedicated to the various themes connected to the prolonging of life, that the exhibition sheds light on. Through the podcast series, you will gain deeper insight into the ideas of immortality and tools to better understand life and death in the 21st century.
Through conversations with artists participating in the exhibition, curators and theorists, the podcast series is based the many themes of the exhibition, such as the ethical aspects of scientific research and experimentation in cryonics and genetic research; the materiality of the soil and its inherent ability to preserve and climate changes possible impact on this; questions about who immortality will be attainable for, digital immortality and processes of grief and deep dive into the searches for immortality, across cosmologies.
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CAC Interviu, Vilnius, 2015
A conversation with Kim TallBear on tribal governance, technoscience and indigenous populations i... more A conversation with Kim TallBear on tribal governance, technoscience and indigenous populations in the United States, Native American DNA, as well as the outer confines of eco-sexuality and scientific poetry. The volume also includes original writing by Tallbear (published with the Oak Lake Writers circle). Translated to Lithuanian. Guest edited by Valentinas Klimasauskas.
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"The work of Jennifer Teets makes material a largely invisible set of
social and biological stre... more "The work of Jennifer Teets makes material a largely invisible set of
social and biological stresses. Teets is interested in the ‘backstory’
of matter, its conditioning as both ‘natural’ and cultural. Working
with cheese, an everyday protein inherently in a state of decomposition, Teets presents it as a record of the psychic and physical effects the environment has on living beings—in this case milking goats. One such work, discussed in this journal, is “an effort to make a trace in cheese. A traumatic trace (in cheese form) made from a herd of dairy goats that were afflicted by psychosomatic effects as a consequence of a violent European windstorm that struck France in 2010.” (p.125)
Within the frame of this project, the impact of the storm combined
with associated events such as the swarms of helicopters surveying the devastation inscribes the cheese produced subsequently “as a micro narrative of climate change impact.” (p.130) Teets’ broader practice sets out to engage with both speculative and empirical forms of knowledge. The outcome is a proposition of intellectual imagination, a necessary response to problems which are often considered too large in scale, too dense in technical or scientific detail."
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An conversation with historian of science, technology and medicine, Barbara Orland, on the pharma... more An conversation with historian of science, technology and medicine, Barbara Orland, on the pharmakon, liquid physiology, nervous cheese and milk, the psychosomatic in humeral thinking, materiality of the modern world and the threshold space of fluorine; metabolic narrations from history.
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Art + Education by Jennifer Teets
Art + Education, 2017
Art & Education - e-flux and Artforum, Nov 13, 2017
See: http://www.artandeducation.net/schoolwa... more Art & Education - e-flux and Artforum, Nov 13, 2017
See: http://www.artandeducation.net/schoolwatch/164079/saas-fee-summer-institute-of-art-a-berlin-intensive-at-the-juncture-of-theory-praxis-and-art
A distilled perspective on Saas Fee Summer Institute of Art inside of the framework "School Watch." School Watch presents distilled perspectives on degree programs in the arts, with interviews, critical texts and editorial exposés on MFAs, Masters, Doctorates and certificate programs in fine arts, art history, curatorial, cultural and film studies, and other related areas of specialty.
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Art & Education - e-flux and Artforum, Feb 27, 2015
A distilled perspective on SPEAP inside of the framework "School Watch." School Watch presents di... more A distilled perspective on SPEAP inside of the framework "School Watch." School Watch presents distilled perspectives on degree programs in the arts, with interviews, critical texts and editorial exposés on MFAs, Masters, Doctorates and certificate programs in fine arts, art history, curatorial, cultural and film studies, and other related areas of specialty.
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A distilled perspective on HEAD inside of the framework "School Watch." School Watch presents dis... more A distilled perspective on HEAD inside of the framework "School Watch." School Watch presents distilled perspectives on degree programs in the arts, with interviews, critical texts and editorial exposés on MFAs, Masters, Doctorates and certificate programs in fine arts, art history, curatorial, cultural and film studies, and other related areas of specialty.
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Focus on Artists by Jennifer Teets
Mousse 87, 2024
Lost in the Forest: Lenio Kaklea by Jennifer Teets How can text be choreographed through movement... more Lost in the Forest: Lenio Kaklea by Jennifer Teets How can text be choreographed through movement? This question, among others, rst occurred to me while viewing A Hand's Turn (2017) by the Paris-based Greek choreographer and artist Lenio Kaklea, a solo performance conceived for two spectators at a time. In the rst half, Kaklea, dressed in high-waisted white shorts and kneehigh boots, sat at a desk and turned sheets of paper at a steady pace, silently encouraging us to read the pages before us. The texts alluded to dualisms, to notions of le and right, but also to the body as de ned by cultural standards. Later, Kaklea began dancing with her back to us, holding a small mirror. I couldn't help but consider this object a tool of subjugation. The artist's tantalizing movements, poise, and obsessive use of the object underscored her interest in the viewer and the viewed through an alluring yet tense shared experience.
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Topical Cream and Liste Expedition, 2023
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Mousse Magazine , 2022
"“I am the second person going,” whispers visual artist Na Mira to me over Zoom. I gaze into the ... more "“I am the second person going,” whispers visual artist Na Mira to me over Zoom. I gaze into the screen in virtual disarray, scrambling to listen and simultaneously jot down notes on Mira’s necromantic summonings. As of recently, the work of the acclaimed Korean American artist and writer Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (1951–1982) is a favored subject. Cha is best known for her magnum opus Dictee, published one week before her untimely death by homicide at the Puck Building in New York. We are here to talk about Mira’s latest iteration of Night Vision, a video installation in various parts that first came to fruition in 2018, and most recently as Night Vision (red as never been) (2022), a looped, three-channel infrared video on a holographic screen made for the Whitney Biennial
2022: Quiet as It’s Kept. Mira’s animated tone and fractured storytelling enlivens our conversation. Techno animism, the age of Aquarius, Korean shamanism, quantum theory, diasporic narration, and pandemic interludes complicate my notes as I race to keep up, tracing Mira’s confluence of automatic writing and intuitive processes."
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Jakub Czyszczoń, 2020
©2020 Jakub Czyszczoń, the authors, Stereo Gallery, Ermes-Ermes Gallery.
ISBN: 978-83-955422-0-0
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Flowing, seeping, leaking, cascading, shaping. Electric Brine is a volume of poetry and critical essays by women voices from diverse fields such as literature, geography, media studies, history of life sciences, sociology, and poetics of science and fiction, each of them central to the independent curatorial research entity The World in Which We Occur (TWWWO, 2014-ongoing) and its associated online study group Matter in Flux. Conceived as an anthology and a register, it serves as a testimony to the initiative’s long-standing work of creative adaptation and ecological inquiry through a quest to situate a vision of material politics through the lens of six punctuated pieces on flow and fluids. The literary and scientific fabulations found in these pages speak of the conjunction of lived embodiment, the materialized quality of language, and the ability to trigger political imagination through reading, writing and witnessing. Each of these strands polyperform under TWWWO, for they can be traced, retroactively, to the themes present in the live event series, to Matter in Flux’s private study sessions, to the initiative’s collective writing work presented in public venues and publications. Also included in this volume is an appendix documenting the years of invitation and study, intricately linked to the ideological praxis of these overlaps.
Editor: Jennifer Teets
Co-editors: Elise Hunchuck and Margarida Mendes
Proofreading: Gareth Hammond and Willy Smart
Design: Atelier Brenda, Sophie Keij with the assistance of Adèle Gallé and Axel Villarreal
Typeset in Stempel Garamond
Paper is Constellation Jade and Munken
Printed and bound by die Keure
160 pp. 11.8 x 19.6 cm
ISBN 978-3-948212-49-0
First edition, 500 copies.
Published by Archive Books.
Berlin, Germany, 2021.
Archive Books
Reinickendorfer Straße 17
DE 13347 Berlin
archivebooks.org
Book Chapters by Jennifer Teets
http://zabriskie.de/katalog/kuenstlerbuecher/paris-may-16/
"The watermelon snow obviously had a capacity for producing political vertigo when consumed. The Inuit took to ingesting it following Steinar Vika’s instructions. It was not known if the conscious act of consuming the liquor would lead to the visions or if it were a combination of the two (the thought of a potential event or the actual event itself to come). Though, various acts of struggle could be traced."
Interviews by Jennifer Teets
matter, combined with issues of rights, health, and ecology.
TWWWO thus serves to generate a “world picture” of the overwhelming crises we find ourselves in, not only by staging a discussion on the condition of social and environmental catastrophe, but also by inviting a wide-range of polymathic thinkers to demonstrate how knowledge can be put to use to critically address the world today. In this process of exploring new modes of inquiry that respond to our political and ecological challenges, it became apparent that new routines for exchange, research, and analysis needed to be formed. Hence the group Matter in Flux was born – an online monthly study group with participants from different fields across the world that combines close analysis of political, ecological and scientific works with literature and poetry. By rigorously reading a range of texts through thematic and methodological overlaps, the group examines material and metabolic exchanges that make visible the enmeshment of politics, science, and ideology. Though their emphasis is primarily on producing a space for collective detailed analysis (a rarity outside the academy), the group members have recently produced a series of collaborative written works that were recently presented as posters in the group exhibition Head With Many Thoughts at CAC Vilnius. Now on their 27th session, Matter in Flux is composed of curator Alex Alonso, health practitioner Catherine Borra, artist H.A. Halpert, artist Jason Hendrik Hansma, artist Ruth Hölfich, artist Carlos Monleón and artist Willy Smart. Recently integrated 2020 members include artist Ana María Gomez Lopez, filmmaker Eduardo Makoszay, artist Claire Pentecost, artist Georgia Sagri and curator Pip Wallis.
The curator and writer Post Brothers spoke with Jennifer Teets, curator/convener of TWWWO and Matter in Flux, about the practice of knowledge generation within the context of these interrelated formats. Their discussion also forms a preview of her upcoming book Electric Brine (published by Archive Books, Berlin).
On the occasion of the international group exhibition Who Wants to Live Forever?, Kunsthall Trondheim presents a podcast series dedicated to the various themes connected to the prolonging of life, that the exhibition sheds light on. Through the podcast series, you will gain deeper insight into the ideas of immortality and tools to better understand life and death in the 21st century.
Through conversations with artists participating in the exhibition, curators and theorists, the podcast series is based the many themes of the exhibition, such as the ethical aspects of scientific research and experimentation in cryonics and genetic research; the materiality of the soil and its inherent ability to preserve and climate changes possible impact on this; questions about who immortality will be attainable for, digital immortality and processes of grief and deep dive into the searches for immortality, across cosmologies.
social and biological stresses. Teets is interested in the ‘backstory’
of matter, its conditioning as both ‘natural’ and cultural. Working
with cheese, an everyday protein inherently in a state of decomposition, Teets presents it as a record of the psychic and physical effects the environment has on living beings—in this case milking goats. One such work, discussed in this journal, is “an effort to make a trace in cheese. A traumatic trace (in cheese form) made from a herd of dairy goats that were afflicted by psychosomatic effects as a consequence of a violent European windstorm that struck France in 2010.” (p.125)
Within the frame of this project, the impact of the storm combined
with associated events such as the swarms of helicopters surveying the devastation inscribes the cheese produced subsequently “as a micro narrative of climate change impact.” (p.130) Teets’ broader practice sets out to engage with both speculative and empirical forms of knowledge. The outcome is a proposition of intellectual imagination, a necessary response to problems which are often considered too large in scale, too dense in technical or scientific detail."
Art + Education by Jennifer Teets
See: http://www.artandeducation.net/schoolwatch/164079/saas-fee-summer-institute-of-art-a-berlin-intensive-at-the-juncture-of-theory-praxis-and-art
A distilled perspective on Saas Fee Summer Institute of Art inside of the framework "School Watch." School Watch presents distilled perspectives on degree programs in the arts, with interviews, critical texts and editorial exposés on MFAs, Masters, Doctorates and certificate programs in fine arts, art history, curatorial, cultural and film studies, and other related areas of specialty.
Focus on Artists by Jennifer Teets
2022: Quiet as It’s Kept. Mira’s animated tone and fractured storytelling enlivens our conversation. Techno animism, the age of Aquarius, Korean shamanism, quantum theory, diasporic narration, and pandemic interludes complicate my notes as I race to keep up, tracing Mira’s confluence of automatic writing and intuitive processes."
Flowing, seeping, leaking, cascading, shaping. Electric Brine is a volume of poetry and critical essays by women voices from diverse fields such as literature, geography, media studies, history of life sciences, sociology, and poetics of science and fiction, each of them central to the independent curatorial research entity The World in Which We Occur (TWWWO, 2014-ongoing) and its associated online study group Matter in Flux. Conceived as an anthology and a register, it serves as a testimony to the initiative’s long-standing work of creative adaptation and ecological inquiry through a quest to situate a vision of material politics through the lens of six punctuated pieces on flow and fluids. The literary and scientific fabulations found in these pages speak of the conjunction of lived embodiment, the materialized quality of language, and the ability to trigger political imagination through reading, writing and witnessing. Each of these strands polyperform under TWWWO, for they can be traced, retroactively, to the themes present in the live event series, to Matter in Flux’s private study sessions, to the initiative’s collective writing work presented in public venues and publications. Also included in this volume is an appendix documenting the years of invitation and study, intricately linked to the ideological praxis of these overlaps.
Editor: Jennifer Teets
Co-editors: Elise Hunchuck and Margarida Mendes
Proofreading: Gareth Hammond and Willy Smart
Design: Atelier Brenda, Sophie Keij with the assistance of Adèle Gallé and Axel Villarreal
Typeset in Stempel Garamond
Paper is Constellation Jade and Munken
Printed and bound by die Keure
160 pp. 11.8 x 19.6 cm
ISBN 978-3-948212-49-0
First edition, 500 copies.
Published by Archive Books.
Berlin, Germany, 2021.
Archive Books
Reinickendorfer Straße 17
DE 13347 Berlin
archivebooks.org
http://zabriskie.de/katalog/kuenstlerbuecher/paris-may-16/
"The watermelon snow obviously had a capacity for producing political vertigo when consumed. The Inuit took to ingesting it following Steinar Vika’s instructions. It was not known if the conscious act of consuming the liquor would lead to the visions or if it were a combination of the two (the thought of a potential event or the actual event itself to come). Though, various acts of struggle could be traced."
matter, combined with issues of rights, health, and ecology.
TWWWO thus serves to generate a “world picture” of the overwhelming crises we find ourselves in, not only by staging a discussion on the condition of social and environmental catastrophe, but also by inviting a wide-range of polymathic thinkers to demonstrate how knowledge can be put to use to critically address the world today. In this process of exploring new modes of inquiry that respond to our political and ecological challenges, it became apparent that new routines for exchange, research, and analysis needed to be formed. Hence the group Matter in Flux was born – an online monthly study group with participants from different fields across the world that combines close analysis of political, ecological and scientific works with literature and poetry. By rigorously reading a range of texts through thematic and methodological overlaps, the group examines material and metabolic exchanges that make visible the enmeshment of politics, science, and ideology. Though their emphasis is primarily on producing a space for collective detailed analysis (a rarity outside the academy), the group members have recently produced a series of collaborative written works that were recently presented as posters in the group exhibition Head With Many Thoughts at CAC Vilnius. Now on their 27th session, Matter in Flux is composed of curator Alex Alonso, health practitioner Catherine Borra, artist H.A. Halpert, artist Jason Hendrik Hansma, artist Ruth Hölfich, artist Carlos Monleón and artist Willy Smart. Recently integrated 2020 members include artist Ana María Gomez Lopez, filmmaker Eduardo Makoszay, artist Claire Pentecost, artist Georgia Sagri and curator Pip Wallis.
The curator and writer Post Brothers spoke with Jennifer Teets, curator/convener of TWWWO and Matter in Flux, about the practice of knowledge generation within the context of these interrelated formats. Their discussion also forms a preview of her upcoming book Electric Brine (published by Archive Books, Berlin).
On the occasion of the international group exhibition Who Wants to Live Forever?, Kunsthall Trondheim presents a podcast series dedicated to the various themes connected to the prolonging of life, that the exhibition sheds light on. Through the podcast series, you will gain deeper insight into the ideas of immortality and tools to better understand life and death in the 21st century.
Through conversations with artists participating in the exhibition, curators and theorists, the podcast series is based the many themes of the exhibition, such as the ethical aspects of scientific research and experimentation in cryonics and genetic research; the materiality of the soil and its inherent ability to preserve and climate changes possible impact on this; questions about who immortality will be attainable for, digital immortality and processes of grief and deep dive into the searches for immortality, across cosmologies.
social and biological stresses. Teets is interested in the ‘backstory’
of matter, its conditioning as both ‘natural’ and cultural. Working
with cheese, an everyday protein inherently in a state of decomposition, Teets presents it as a record of the psychic and physical effects the environment has on living beings—in this case milking goats. One such work, discussed in this journal, is “an effort to make a trace in cheese. A traumatic trace (in cheese form) made from a herd of dairy goats that were afflicted by psychosomatic effects as a consequence of a violent European windstorm that struck France in 2010.” (p.125)
Within the frame of this project, the impact of the storm combined
with associated events such as the swarms of helicopters surveying the devastation inscribes the cheese produced subsequently “as a micro narrative of climate change impact.” (p.130) Teets’ broader practice sets out to engage with both speculative and empirical forms of knowledge. The outcome is a proposition of intellectual imagination, a necessary response to problems which are often considered too large in scale, too dense in technical or scientific detail."
See: http://www.artandeducation.net/schoolwatch/164079/saas-fee-summer-institute-of-art-a-berlin-intensive-at-the-juncture-of-theory-praxis-and-art
A distilled perspective on Saas Fee Summer Institute of Art inside of the framework "School Watch." School Watch presents distilled perspectives on degree programs in the arts, with interviews, critical texts and editorial exposés on MFAs, Masters, Doctorates and certificate programs in fine arts, art history, curatorial, cultural and film studies, and other related areas of specialty.
2022: Quiet as It’s Kept. Mira’s animated tone and fractured storytelling enlivens our conversation. Techno animism, the age of Aquarius, Korean shamanism, quantum theory, diasporic narration, and pandemic interludes complicate my notes as I race to keep up, tracing Mira’s confluence of automatic writing and intuitive processes."
Concept and creative direction: Nina Canell and Robin Watkins
Writers: Martin Herbert, Jennifer Teets, Robin Watkins
Speakers: Nicole Starosielski, Alexander R. Galloway
Copyediting and proofreading: Jesi Khadivi
Funding institutions: Le Crédac, S.M.A.K., Kunstmuseum St.Gallen
Print run: 1000 copies
ISBN: 978-3-95679-482-7
With essays by Dominic Eichler, Julian Heynen, and Jennifer Teets.
Language: English / Polish
Pages: 226
Size: 17.5 x 23.6 cm
Weight: 680 g
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 978-83-92372-9-2
Articulando las complejas tensiones que se juegan sobre Texas, la curadora Jennifer Teets realiza un viaje por los paisajes familiares, políticos y culturales que ahí yacen para compartir parte del panorama artístico de la región tras su estancia en Artpace, San Antonio.
PP 63 introducerer fem udenlandske kunstnere, kuratorer og magasin-udgivere med hver sit eget hæfte med eget omslag, Der er faktisk ikke tale om et enkelt tidsskrift, men hele fem på en gang. På forbløffende vis, med megen bogbindersnilde og udsøgt tænkning, er det lykkedes at sammensmelte de fem hæfter, så de bogstaveligt hænger sammen som ét tidsskrift. Efter flere gennembladninger og omdrejninger af tidsskriftet forstår man forhåbentlig hvordan, det er skruet sammen. Det er i hvert fald alt for besværligt at forklare her.
Den tyrkiske kunstner, kurator og medredaktør Asli Cavusoglu deltager selv med et grafisk/tekstligt bidrag, den mexikanske kunstnergruppe Perros Negros præsenterer et nummer af deres eget kunsttidsskrift Pazmaker, den argentinske bladudgiver Juan Ignacio Moralejo har kurateret en samling fotos, den amerikanske kurator Jennifer Teets har inviteret en række skribenter til at fremstille nye tekster til udvalgte sider fra det gamle Penthouse-baserede magasin OMNI, og endelig deltager den engelske film- og billedkunstner Mark Aerial Waller med en serie akvareller.
Featuring material from the author’s long term inquiry Elusive Earths (w/Lorenzo Cirrincione) on clay consumption, and Intimate confession is a project, a forthcoming exhibition on intimacy and infrastructures – this talk features two bodies of work that conjure material history. In particular, how materials inform the relational infrastructures of cultural material, including notions of transmission, intergenerational life, and cultural inheritance through the prism of intimacy and infrastructure.
In her work, American curator and writer Jennifer Teets integrates ecofeminism, material studies, and science and technology studies, making visible and material a largely invisible set of social and biological stresses. She is editor of Electric Brine published by Archive Books in 2021. Currently she convenes Matter in Flux, a 15 member cohort dedicated to artistic inquiry, critical epistemological subjects, social justice, and new understandings of the body and political subjectivity with presentations by leading authors and theorists. www.matterinflux.org
The first step of the earth works began over the summer of 2014 in Greece. The departure point was terra sigillata (sealed earth), edible medicinal clay pastilles sourced from Greek antiquity that one could attribute to one of the first lineages of pharmacology, and clearly involved an implicit performativity in their preparation. While searching for these antiquated earths on islands in the Aegean sea, other earths were discovered, including industrial clays currently being considered for use in the rare earth and pharmaceautical industries. The second phase of the work presented in Colombia in 2014, featured objects and earth paraphernalia as well as three core samples of Terra preta, also known as “Amazonian dark earth” or “Indian black earth”, a manmade anthropogenic soil of a pre-Colombian nature, created in the slash-and-char method, and controversial for its appropriation and commodification in biochar (carbon sequestring) circles.
For the third iteration in Oaxaca held in 2016, an itinerary of local earth consumption is traced from seventeenth century Guatemala to one sole family from Tlacolula, who possess the remaining understanding of “pan de tierra bendita” production– an edible clay cake, bearing religious figures. It also brings attention to remaining modes of consumption of “chogosta,” a “mud candy” dug out, sculpted, barbequed, and eaten in Jáltipan, Veracruz. As a constantly transforming exhibition body, Elusive Earths takes inventory of such edible clays and their imaginaries, placing emphasis on the performativity of the extraction of natural resources and the moral economies in pharmacological panacea. A kind of world assemblage and information circuit which itself is embedded in various levels of cultural catalyzing forces: discoveries, trade, standardization processes, the shaping of local practices and the interlaced circulations of knowledge.
Our intention is that the MATTER IN FLUX online study group will probe these conditions. Broadly, it will look at the history of materiality and examine the scientific criteria that sets matter into motion, so as to grant agency to social inquiry and conceptual labor. Inherent to the study group’s research line and interrogative approach are: politically enmeshed scientific affairs in ecological politics and policy, economies of transition, history of science, material studies, and gender studies in science. MATTER IN FLUX will pay particular attention to metabolic transactions, plasmatic fictions, and various degrees of para-scientific approaches. Fiction will also play a role in the consideration and portrayal of these subjects.
Please write to twwwoarchive@gmail.com by March 23, 2020 to express your interest in joining the group by responding to the question below. Also, send a description of yourself in one sentence (your research aims). You are not required to be a specialist of the drafted themes to participate in the group. However, you should express a capacity to tease apart the concepts at hand with intellectual rigor, aptitude, and passion. If you have a question about the group, please send an email, we are eager to hear from you.
The coronavirus COVID-19 is currently striking the world (at the time of outlining this call) having numerous ripple down effects. Research tells us that “zoonotic transfer” is responsible for this outbreak. Describe the role of metabolism in this process and what it sketches out for planetary health. In your description please consider political, ecological and infrastructural shifts. Feel free to embrace fiction, prose or hard science in your response.
Our intention is that the MATTER IN FLUX online study group will probe these conditions. Broadly, it looks at the history of materiality and examine the scientific criteria that sets matter into motion, so as to grant agency to social inquiry and conceptual labor. Inherent to the study group’s research line and interrogative approach are: politically enmeshed scientific affairs in ecological politics and policy, economies of transition, history of science, material studies, and gender studies in science. MATTER IN FLUX will pay particular attention to metabolic transactions, plasmatic fictions, and various degrees of para-scientific approaches. Fiction will also play a role in the consideration and portrayal of these subjects.