Everything Gardens! Growing from the Ruins of Modernity, edited by Marc Herbst and Michelle Teran, outlines a pedagogical model that is intended to remain useful throughout Berlin’s next 99 years, through the ravages of climate change and social upheaval. This model is centred in Berlin’s Prinzessinnengarten at Moritzplatz and developed under the moniker of Nachbarschaftsakademie (The Neighborhood Academy). The Nachbarschaftsakademie (NAK) was created in 2015 as a self-organized platform for collective learning, bringing together critical artistic practices and urban and rural activism. The NAK is an educational project bound up with an ecosystem of other projects that share similar goals in Berlin’s Prinzessinnengarten – guiding an eco-social practice over time.
Situationer Workbook/Cookbook, edited by Michelle Teran with Johanna Monk, Teana Boston-Mammah, and Clementine Edwards, is a book in two volumes on transformative pedagogy and teaching in times of crisis. How can times of crisis – or of crises, in their many forms – inform and influence the pedagogies needed to situate ourselves in a troubled world? How can one tune in to the conditions, concerns and difficulties of these complex times, by cultivating new and necessary forms of humility, attentiveness and recognition toward other knowledges, other value systems, other frameworks of understanding? The essays, interviews, and other creative and critical interventions in this book offer a wide variety of reflections upon these fundamental questions.
VIS Nordic Journal for Artistic Research is a new digital journal about Artistic Research in the Nordic region. The journal is the result of a cooperation between Stockholm University of the Arts and Norwegian Artistic Research Programme. The purpose of the journal is to serve as a basic source of knowledge for anyone who wants to learn and immerse themselves in artistic research in the Nordic region.
The essay PERCEPTION CRISIS MACHINE CONGLOMERATE: A FAST ENTRY INTO THE METHODOLOGY OF SYNSMASKINEN by Michelle Teran & Frans Jacobi included in the reader for the 9th SAR International Conference on Artistic Research
Michelle Teran will be participating and presenting at the Elia Biennial in Rotterdam, November 21st-24th, 2018. The theme of the Elia Biennial is ‘Resilience and the City’. In her performative lecture, she introduces various strategies for reclaiming, which she will discuss within the frame of the SHIFTING CENTRES, SHIFTING MARGINS thematic mobile sessions.
Michelle Teran, together with Frans Jacobi (KMD, Bergen) will lead “perception crisis machine conglomerate, a workshop which explores the machinic methods of the ongoing artistic research SYNSMASKINEN. (http://www.synsmaskinen.net/)
About: The exhibition THE TEMPORARY LABORATORY at Gallery KIT, Trondheim Academy of Fine Art, NTNU, presents the Temporary Library of Norwegian Media Art. The Temporary Library of Norwegian Media Art collects the most comprehensive knowledge and documentation of media arts in Norway, in terms of history, artistic activities, artists, and the development of the field.
Curator: Temporary Laboratory exhibition and activities curated by Michelle Teran with Master’s students Anaclara Talento Acosta, Letizia Balzi, Katherine Butcher, Mika Haykowsky, Alvaro Hortal Muñoz, Lisa Paland, Martin Grøndalen Palmer, Kasper Holm Pedersen and Pablo Sarabia Fraile.
Nothing to Hide? Art, Surveillance, and Privacy, is a multidisciplinary exhibition of visual art, public art, film, public discussions, performance, interactivity and spoken word, all exploring the prevalence of surveillance and its impact on the way we lead our lives.