Residency at the Luminary

In October of 2024 I had the pleasure of participating in a residency at the Luminary, an artist-run center in St. Louis. It was tremendously rewarding to spend time in a region so rich in Indigenous earthworks history, and to learn from fellow residents and the broader St. Louis arts community.

Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant

In 2023 I was awarded an Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant to begin a new project on land art and settler colonialism in the American Midwest.

This grant enables me to trace the histories of dispossession, resource extraction, and colonial land surveying practices that intersect in Michael Heizer’s little-known earthwork Effigy Tumuli (1985). I’m also in the process of expanding this initial research into a broader survey of Midwest land art, arguing that the forced removal of Indigenous communities—and the rapid reshaping of the region’s landscapes during the removal era—must be understood as the literal and conceptual “ground” upon which the settler earthworks movement developed.

Sialussuartut | Like a Cloudburst: Redefining Greenlandic Art History

SMK – National Gallery of Denmark (Copenhagen, DK)

In September of 2023, my colleague Anna Vestergaard Jørgensen and I co-organized a symposium at the Danish National Gallery in honor of Jessie Kleemann, esteemed performance artist, poet, painter, and educator.

This seminar celebrated the opening of the SMK’s first major exhibition of acclaimed Kalaaleq Inuk artist Jessie Kleemann. Sialussuartut | Like a Cloudburst honored Kleemann’s efforts to expand the field of possibility for Greenlandic artists throughout her esteemed, four decade-long career. Taking its point of departure in her experimental practice, the seminar aimed to spark renewed dialogue about contemporary Greenlandic art, about the status of embodied action in art, and about the politics and aesthetics of decolonization.

Pressing Matters: Prints and Political Activism in the 20th and 21st Centuries

LACMA (Los Angeles, CA)

Saturday 29. April, 2023, 9.00 - 16.00

I presented at a symposium on political graphics organized by LACMA. My paper, “Primary Colors for the Fourth World: Graphic Media and Indigenous Sovereignty in 1970s Scandinavia,” expanded on material I explored in an essay recently published in Konsthistorisk tidskrift.

A description of the symposium can be found here.

Inuk Silis Høegh’s video installation The Green Land

Inuk Silis Høegh has debuted a major exhibition of his multi-channel video installation The Green Land at Nordatlantens Brygge in Copenhagen. I was honored to consult on the project and work on writing related to it at an early stage. Read more about the project here.

Blikke på Grønland Symposium

The Greenlandic House Aarhus (Aarhus, DK)

Saturday 13. November, 2021, 11.00 - 15.30

I was invited to participate in the symposium Blikke på Grønland / Gazes on Greenland organized by ASSINGA, Aarhus Feminist Collective, The Greenlandic House Aarhus, and Galleri Image. My presentation focused on the neglected history of early video art in Kalaallit Nunaat.

See descriptions of the event (in English) here—og (på dansk) her.