‘ONE BIG GREEN THOUGHT’: REPAIR, REGENERATION AND REWILDING IN DAMAGED ENVIRONMENTS

Research project, dissertation, 2022-ongoing

In my dissertation, I investigate artistic practices, which are set in damaged environments and have plants, trees, and forests as their object of investigation. By analyzing selected case studies from the field of contemporary art and recent art history the project aims to discuss arboreal politics, their medial modes of representation, and the epistemologies brought together in them.

From a cultural study’s perspective and against the background of current discourses in plant studies, posthumanism, and queer ecologies and understanding the case studies as artistic explorations of knowledge creation, the PhD project is particularly interested in investigating concepts of repair, regeneration and rewilding and bringing these notions in a dialogue with a wider eco-social context.

Research Project: https://www.matters-of-activity.de/en/posts/7692/active-treesknowledge-technologies-and-futures

Hosting University and funding: Cluster of Excellence Matters of Activity, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Supervision: Robert Stock, professor for Cultures of Knowledge, Department of Cultural History and Theory, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin || Ursula Ströbele, Professorin für Kunstwissenschaft mit dem Schwerpunkt Kunst der Gegenwart, HKB Braunschweig

Collaborators: Epistemologien ästhetischer Praktiken, Doctoral Program of Zurich University of the Arts ZHdK, Universität Zürich, ETH Zürich and Collegium Helveticum

Research Period: 2022-2025

Images: Rahel Kesselring