Current Research

Feeling Public
On Getting Lost
Emotional Biennials
Fiction Feeling Frame
RELAY
Gentrification as Hate

Ngurrara Canvas II at the Sharjah Architecture Triennial 2019 Photo: Talie Eigeland

EMOTIONAL BIENNIALS (2020 - )

with Dr Julie Ren, University of Zurich

Biennials have proliferated in art, architecture and design, particularly in cities outside of North America and Europe. Instead of studying the biennial purely from a political economic point of view, this project considers the ways that the spatiality and temporality of the biennial is rife with emotion. The passions and resentments that the biennial encapsulates ranges from amusement to disdain or even revulsion, and is deeply intertwined with the powerful position this event holds for cities that they inhabit.