AREAS OF INTEREST
Art curation – Ecologies – Experimental imagery – Performance – Queer & Anarchist theory – Video art.
CURRENT RESEARCH
My current work is at the intersection of environmental studies and video art practice. Over the past few years, I have increasingly included experimental film, photography, and video performance to my fieldwork methodology as part of a project on queer methods in sociology (which I currently develop at DePaul University). Grounded in Queer, Anarchist, and Anti-capitalist theory, my research is now focused on mineral ecologies and extraction in Lake Michigan, while developing video works that expands analog and sustainable film technologies. I also increasingly work with/on performance and art curation as research methods, as a way to reflect on embodiment and epistemic violence.
LATEST LECTURES & CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
7/2025: “Queering ethnography through video performance.” Royal Anthropological Institute film festival and conference, panel “State of the Art: Current Innovations in Performance-Based Ethnographic Methods”, online.
6/2025: “An iconoclast video ethnography: the death of the image.” International Visual Sociology Conference, Suwon, South Korea. With Greg Scott (DePaul University).
4/2025: “Towards a Queer AI-based pedagogy.” AI in Teaching Symposium, DePaul University, Chicago, United States.
1/2025: “Queering visual ecologies: ethics and image-making in marine environments.” Conference “Visual ecologies: life and experiences of images in the Capitalocene”, Strasbourg, France. [Invited talk.]
10/2024: “Film, destroy, embody, repeat: queering sociology through performance.” Quarterly colloquium, Department of Sociology, DePaul University, Chicago. [Invited talk.]
11/2024: Book presentation for The Thread of Water and series of lectures, University of North Carolina Wilmington, Wilmington, North Carolina. [Invited talk.]
6/2024: Book presentation for The Thread of Water, International Festival of Fluid Interdisciplinarities, Institute for Water Education / RADIUS Centre for contemporary art and ecology, Delft (the Netherlands). Invited talk.
2/2024: “The rise and fall of underwater ethnography: towards a queer filmic ethics.” DePaul University, Chicago, United States. [Invited talk.]
2/2024: “‘Thermography’: exploring the failures of underwater imagery and its relationship with coloniality.” College Art Association Conference, Hilton Chicago, United States.
SELECTION OF PUBLICATIONS
2024, The Thread of Water: Photography, Ethnography, and Feminist Ecologies, Immaterial Books.
2024, “Can there be a feminist ethnography of the undersea?” Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 53(2), pp. 248-273.
2023, “Building languages of trauma: conversation with Laura Magnusson”, Visual Studies, vol. 38, no. 2. With Susan Hansen, Kate Korroch, and Laura Magnusson.
2023, “In praise of aquatic resistance”, AR#1, published by LUMA Arles. Full issue available here.
2023, “Cosmic Waters”, Routledge Handbook of Social Studies of Outer Space, ed. by J. F. Salazar & A. Gorman, Routledge.
2021, Manufacturing the Astronaut: An Earthly Ethnography of the International Space Station (in FR), Editions Petra.
2020, “The last taboo: sexual violence in the field and the transmission of ethnographic practice” (in FR), Terrains et théories 12.
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