Metamorphosis – Transformations – Fragrance
Lab seminar series Spring – Autumn 2025
Sessions chaired
4 February 2025 14.00-16.00 – Session chaired by Thea Møller Jensen
Making and growing: artistic collaboration between human and more-than-human agencies.
Selected Bibliography:
Aït-Touati, Frédérique, Alexandra Arènes, and Axelle Grégoire. Terra Forma: A Book of Speculative Maps. The MIT Press, 2022.
Bachelard, Gaston. Rummets poetik. 1. udgave. Kbh: forlaget Mindspace, 2022; Bachelard, Gaston. Earth and Reveries of Repose: An Essay on Images of Interiority. Dallas: Dallas Institute Publications, 2011; Bachelard, Gaston. Water and Dreams: An Essay On the Imagination of Matter. Dallas: Dallas Institute Publications, 2021.
Bennett, Jane. Vegetabilt liv og ontoSympati. Kbh: Laboratoriet for Æstetik og Økologi, 2018.
Cixous, Héléne, and Deborah Jenson. “Coming to Writing” and Other Essays. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1991.
Ingold, Tim. Lines: A Brief History. 1st edition. London: Routledge, 2016.
Ingold, Tim. Making: Anthropology, Archaeology, Art and Architecture. 1st ed. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2013.
Irigaray, Luce. This Sex Which Is Not One. Ithaca, N.Y: Cornell University Press, 1985.
Kimmerer, Robin Wall. The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World. Scribner, 2024.
25 June 2025 14.00-16.00 – Session chaired by Hanna Louise Grønneberg
Machine/Human becomings and Assemblages – The Invention of the Human.
Selected Bibliography:
Bernard Stiegler, «Technics and Time 1: The Fault of Epimetheus», from the chapter: «Who? What? The Invention of the Human».
Sadie Plant’s «Zeros + ones»
Events
26 May 2025
Tang: Transformations. Kunst, Duft, Mad Music Foredrag & Workshops
(Transformations, and mini biennale with art, fragrance, dinners, lectures and workshops).
Opening: 26 May 17:00-19:00.
- Works & Artist Talk by Kristine Autzen
- Reading poetry by Helene Johanne Christensen
Seaweed is one of nature's overlooked superpowers: It grows quickly and without the use of freshwater, fertilizer or agricultural land and holds enormous potential as a sustainable food, building material and bioplastic alternative. At the same time, it absorbs CO₂ and cleans the ocean, making it a potentially important player in the climate fight. Sensually and aesthetically, seaweed has a lot to offer colours, shapes, scent – and seaweed and algae have been on Earth for hundreds of millions of years.
In the exhibition Tang: Transformations, we invite the audience to experience seaweed through meter-high installations in knit and seaweed biomaterial and in animations on the water tower's raw architecture. Fragrance designer Emmanuel Martini has created a scent inspired by seaweed, which can also be experienced in space. Delte Vande is initiated and curated by Lawrence Ebelle / Curated Works.
Coming books
Kristine Autzen, How to Become an Archive, Breadfield Press, 2025
Book Launch 27th November 2025: Fotografisk Center 17-19.30 pm
Nicoletta Isar (Editor). Metamorphosis in Nature and the Arts: Ecstases of Matter and Image, Palgrave MacMillen Cham Springer Nature, 2026.
(with essays by Barbara Baert, Galen A. Johnson, Nidesh Lawtoo, Solveig Gade, Maria Fabricius Hansen, Jacob Wamberg, Thea Møller Jensen, Hanna Louise Grønneberg, Helene Johanna Christiansen, Mathias Srisakul Larsen, Emily Kivistö, Nicoletta Isar and many other)