I have been a passionate educator for 20 years. In the US my teaching has included adjunct lecturing in Critical Theory on the MFA Art and Social Practice at Portland State University; I have taught the Contemporary Art seminar for Critical Studies and Visual Arts program, and mentored on the Design Systems and MFA programs at Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA). I am currently teaching a custom eight-week seminar on artistic research at PNCA, Willamette University. I give ongoing guest lectures and workshops (online and in person) in the US, Canada, Europe, and worldwide.

The Royal Academy of Art, The Hague invited me to develop one of Europe’s first MAs in Artistic Research, creating an experimental practice-led curriculum. My program created space for artists engaged with other fields to delve into in-depth research in material, embodied, and theoretical forms. Working in collaboration with the Royal Conservatoire, the MA also nourished artists, composers and musicians working in expanded and cross-genre performance. Wanting to create experimental formats of presentation and curatorial possibility, we forged collaborations with several like-minded institutions on a dynamic program of exhibitions and performance. (See curating for further details.)

I spent several years teaching at Amsterdam’s prestigious Gerrit Rietveld Academie, where I furthered the academy’s vision of an integrated practice-theory program by creating a new art theory curriculum, editing academy-wide readers, and initiating the first-ever research into cultural diversity in the academy, including workshops and lectures on whiteness, the dynamics of social and cultural capital, and the decolonization of art discourse. I supported Fine Art students’ studio work, and guided artists to find new writing formats and voices that resonated with their practices. During the same period, I tutored artists, designers, and architects at the postgraduate Sandberg Institute. I subsequently participated in national debates on establishing a PhD in Fine Art, and my co-supervision of the first-ever cohort of the new doctoral program in the Netherlands at the University of the Arts, Leiden.

My guest work includes lectures, workshops, seminars, mentoring, and PhD assessment, both in-person and remotely. Some of my current topics include “art as embodied and material knowledge”, “writing as an artistic medium”, “artistic practice and oral knowledge”, “artistic research and decolonizing knowledge”, “practice-led curating”, and “artistic research in a world on fire.” As well as visual artists, socially engaged artists and writers, I often teach practitioners in architecture, design, dance, music, and theatre, many of whom work at the borders of their disciplines.

My guest teaching includes recent seminars, talks and studio visits at The New School, New York (2024); Staedelschule, Frankfurt, Germany (2023); University of Malmö, Sweden (2023); EYE Film Museum, Amsterdam (2023); Lewis and Clark College, Portland, US (2022); Queen’s University, Belfast, UK (2021); Royal Danish Art Academy, Copenhagen (2021); DASARTS, Amsterdam University of the Arts (2021); Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam (2021); University of Amsterdam (2020); Portland State University, Oregon (2020); European Cultural Academy, Venice (2020); HKU Academy of the Arts, Utrecht (2020); School of Visual Art, New York (2019); Minneapolis College of Art & Design, MN (2019); Valand Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden (2018); Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam, (2018); Sofia University, Bulgaria (2018); European Cultural Academy, Venice (2018); Linneaus University, Växjö, Sweden (2018).

I have been an external assessor for graduate and undergraduate work, an advisory expert for staff research, and an opponent in PhD defenses for institutions and organizations, such as Aalto University, Finland; the Austrian Science Council; the Irish Arts Council; Malmö Art Academy, Lund University, Sweden; Artez Academy of Art, Arnhem, The Netherlands; St Joost Academy, Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands, and Loughborough University, UK.

I love to give public talks, always wanting to connect with others in a shared space. People often comment on my ability to forge bridges between artistic and academic discourses and address complex topics in an accessible manner. PowerPoint is a kind of sketchbook for my thinking. I rarely read from a paper, preferring how the act of speech and its live human connection makes my thoughts go further than a linear text. The joy lies in finding new pathways for thinking.

I always seek to create space for engaged discussion, embracing the collective moment as something precious. Zoom talks have their own rhythm. I appreciate the possibility of creating wider access through this technology. I am committed to incorporating ASL and closed captioning in public talks as often as possible. A good talk always feels like a song. It leaves something hanging in the air, creating an environment for new thinking, and an opportunity for human connection. I care about orality as a medium, and not only a means to an end. This interest in reflected in my recent writing.