About the presentation:
Electric Brine is a volume of poetry and critical essays by women voices from diverse fields such as literature, geography, media studies, history of life sciences, sociology, and poetics of science and fiction, each of them central to the independent curatorial research entity The World in Which We Occur (TWWWO, 2014-ongoing) and its associated online study group Matter in Flux. Conceived as an anthology and a register, it serves as a testimony to the initiative’s long-standing work of creative adaptation and ecological inquiry through a quest to situate a vision of material politics through the lens of six punctuated pieces on flow and fluids. This talk situates Electric Brine within TWWWO and Matter in Flux's curatorial structure, exposing its inner mechanisms, current collaborators and methodologies.
About the presenter:
Jennifer Teets is an American curator and writer based in Paris, France, since 2009. Working at the intersection of the poetics of science and technology, material culture, literature, and performance, she is interested in the “backstory” of matter, its conditioning as both natural and cultural. Within her work, she addresses the roles of consumption and contamination as an embodiment of thought which then performs, spores, and proliferates. She is the director/convener of The World in Which We Occur, an independent research-based entity and its associated study group Matter in Flux. She is editor of Electric Brine (2021), published by Archive Books, Berlin and was recently a 2022 Senior Scholar in Residence at the University of Texas’ Casa Herrera in Antigua, Guatemala, for her forthcoming title to be published by Spector Books in 2023.
Her most recent exhibition Carbonate of Copper held at Artpace, San Antonio from May 19-August 28, 2022 featured poets and visual artists who examine questions of circuitry, flow, foundation, and cultural inheritance, particularly in relation to infrastructure, the environment, and geological time. She is currently working on a major exhibition for the Blaffer Museum of Art, University of Houston, to open in the fall of 2023. She is a graduate of Sciences Po Experimentation in Arts and Politics (SPEAP), directed by Bruno Latour, 2014.
About the event series
The OSEH Environmental Lunchtime Discussion series consists of short, 15 minute presentations by invited guests, followed by a discussion. We invite speakers from a wide variety of fields, both academic and beyond. The presentations are accessible and are aimed at anyone with an interest in environmental issues. All are welcome.