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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.


From ‘Frames of Love, or Love’s Perspective’ (2018)

‘Love’s perspective might be a window into someone’s life. Or perhaps it is more like a signal that one sees and likes and recognizes what another or other put/s forward as a framed structure of their feeling of life.’
- Adam Kaasa
From ‘Feeling Bodies of Architecture: Towards an Incommensurable Pedagogy’ (2023)

‘Space, time, energy must be made for the bodies of architecture to be present in this new pedagogic performance, for feeling in both senses of the word to happen, for bodies that have moved to be moved again, by and through each other.’
- Adam Kaasa