2024-25 Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow, AIS, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
modern & contemporary art history, land art, circumpolar contexts, Indigenous politics, media aesthetics
Recent publications:
-“A Monochrome at Ukkusissaq: Pia Arke's Home-Rule Earthworks,” October 184 (2023): 115–146. Link.
-“Primary Colors for the Fourth World: The Nonfigurative Sovereignty of Synnøve Persen and Frederik “Kunngi” Kristensen,” Konsthistorisk tidskrift–Journal of Art History 92:2 (2023): 84-105. Link.
-I contributed a catalogue text titled “TV for Earth, Wind, and Fire: Inuk Silis Høegh’s Media Sovereignty” in connection with Inuk Silis Høegh’s 2024 solo exhibition Arctic Vertigo at the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA). The online exhibition catalogue can be downloaded here.
-“Summertime Politics: Cultural Resurgence, Resource Sovereignty, and the Aasivik Movement.” Études Inuit Studies 47:1-2 (2023): 189-214. Link.
Recent news:
I was recently awarded a 2023 Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant for a new project on land art and settler colonialism.
Later in 2024 I will join the Luminary’s (St. Louis) residency program.
The Historians of German, Scandinavian, and Central European Art Society (HGSCEA) awarded my article “A Monochrome at Ukkusissaq: Pia Arke’s Home-Rule Earthworks” an Emerging Scholars Publication Prize.