I am an associate professor in Aesthetics and Culture, and co-director of the research programme in Environmental Media and Aesthetics. Over the last 20 years of research I have explored how the singular, sensory aesthetic experience is informed by, but also contributes to, the broader culture, we are part of. I have a particular interest in environmental phenonema, such as plants and sounds, that tend to exist in the periphery of our field of attention, and in the arts that centers that which normally exists as backgrounded phenomena.
I have published broadly on these questions in more than 70 papers on sound, sonic citizenship, sound art and environmental art, anthropocene and contemporary art.
Awarded with the Danish Research Counsil's Sapere Elite scholarship the project A World in Sound focussed on how the technologies in sound art allows us to experience backgrounded soundings and how that is used to establish new narratives.
As part of the team behind the artmuseum ARoS vast exhibition The Garden I explored the merits of art in relation to the current global environmental degradations. I published an edited volume with texts from top researchers such a Bruno Latour, T.J. Demos and W.T.J Mitchell.
In the current research project Hidden Plant Stories we explore house plant stories in the archives of 19th century art together with two art museums Den Hirschsprungske Samling and Ordrupgaard. What can we learn from zooming in on these unobtrusive, but often richly coded elements of art? And how may the museum serve as a forum for plant concerns?
I teach and supervise broadly within aesthetics, cultural, art, and media theory.
I often give guest lectures on my research; On sound art and sonic citizenship. On climate art, the Anthropocene, plant and post-nature in art.
Jeg holder af at bruge min æstetik og kulturfaglighed i praksis. Jeg har ved flere lejligheder arbejdet med at professionalisere ensembler og foreninger for ny musik, jeg har siddet i Dansk Komponistforenings fordelingspulje. Som leder af Center for Sound Studies har jeg arbejdet for at etablere et center for lyd og lyttekultur sammen med Nationalmuseet og Struer Museum i Struer Lydby. Jeg har senest været udlånt til kunstmuseet ARoS for at arbejde strategisk med museets forsknings- og samlingsstrategi.
