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art historian @WellingtonUni and writer of art, environments, materiality, plants, rocks, critters, memory, and the Anthropocene. #EnviroArtHistory

Wellington City, New Zealand
Joined March 2009
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Super excited to announce the Oroya and Melvin Day Fellowship in New Zealand Art History at a wonderful event at Webb's Gallery this evening. apc01.safelinks.protection.o… #ArtHistory #ArtHistoryAotearoa #ArtHistoryForTheFuture
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Come and work with my friends on the magical 9th floor!!!!
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The RCC is delighted to bring you the fourth issue of 𝘚𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴: 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘙𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘭 𝘊𝘢𝘳𝘴𝘰𝘯 𝘊𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘙𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘸! You can read it here: springs-rcc.org (1/2) #rcc #rccsprings #lmu #free #openaccess #online #publication #release #halloween #academia
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2023 in Tasmania. Another ancient tree killed & carried through Hobart two nights ago. Native forest logging must end now so these trees & their surrounding ecosystems stay intact. Taxpayers fund this destruction + logging causes global heating + extinction rates soar. #politas
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Liz Linden on Andy Warhol’s right thing, wrong space strategy—and how Arnold Schwarzenegger (@Schwarzenegger) embodied it perfectly.  pioneerworks.org/broadcast/a…
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Come and work with my friends at Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery!!! Exciting job as Head Technician. instagram.com/stories/thorn.…
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1931 election night crowds on the corner of Willis and Mercer streets, Wellington. Source: National Library of NZ natlib.govt.nz/records/22334…
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Keen to write about art, environment, earth, energy, extraction, ecologies and everything inbetween? Want to work alongside Aotearoa's only purpose-built university art gallery? Love the weather in Te-Whanganui-a-Tara? Come and study art history with me!!!
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Scholarship applications for Masters and Phd research close on 1 November. Please get in touch if you have an idea you want to test out.
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I am thrilled that our book, Deep Horizons: A Multisensory Archive of Ecological Affects and Prospects, is now out with @AmCollPress. It's free! It was wonderful to co-edit with Brianne Cohen and Erin Espelie, and we are honoured to feature work from... doi.org/10.3998/mpub.1278034…
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It has been an amazing month collaborating with these generous ringatoi, and celebrating their powerful mahi. #ArtHistoryForTheFuture #VicArtHistory #TahuhuKoreroToi #ARTH407 @VicUniWgtn @toiponeke instagram.com/p/Cw1waUlvpjv/…
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So great to see @AdamArtGallery full of people and energy and dance this evening! @WgtnUniResearch @WellingtonUni
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instagram.com/p/CvtJhkYvu9m/… ARTH407 Reading Artists Writing. So fabulous to be working alongside these four awesome ringatoi to support their mahi. #VUWArtHistory #ArtWritingInTheRealWorld #HeRito @WellingtonUni #ARTH407
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Presented this work today for the plenary panel “Uncertainty’s Place” at the Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL) — Association for the Study of Literature, Environment and Culture Aus and NZ (ASLEC-ANZ) conference. Will share on my blog soon!
I’m writing a paper this week on the crossover between fascism, anti-trans feminism and climate inaction for a plenary panel I’ve been invited to speak on, and I am feeling HARROWED by the content
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My essay on Earth/Earth at Barry Lett in 1971 is out today. Thanks to everyone who asked me questions and offered possibilities. artnow.nz/essays/art-energy-…
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‘Te Motunui Epa’ by @buchananrachel was announced tonight as a finalist for the Keri Hulme Award at the 2023 Pikihuia Awards. Congratulations Rachel and to all the Māori writers across these awards! ✨ mlt.org.nz/pikihuia-awards-2…
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This is why we stick together. Music for the soul, but also for our future world. #SaveVUW #SaveNZSM
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Letter from The Post Editor Caitlin Cherry: "I did my BA at Victoria University in the early 1990s. My major was theatre and film studies, but I took as many different courses as I could... I loved learning about the world through those different lenses" #saveVUW
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We love our SEFTMCAH staff & our colleagues and teachers across the university—and won’t stand by silently as the tertiary sector is gutted. Cut nothing; education is a public good #SaveVUW
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One of the electorate's biggest employers, Victoria University, is getting ready to slash hundreds of jobs. In the coming weeks we'll learn if Programmes are to close, affecting thousands of students. How will candidates respond? This must become an election issue. #saveVUW
With three heavy hitters bowing out, Wellington Central is wide open. Green candidate Tamatha Paul says she has the local record to win youtube.com/watch?v=9mnZRfU2…
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