Current & Upcoming Projects

Forthcoming book (edited volume) Ung Uro: Unsettling Climates in Nordic Art, Architecture & Design (Cappelen Damm Akademisk, forthcoming april 2021)

Journal article “The Unstable Object: Glifo, Blow, and Sacco at MoMA, 1972” published in Journal of Design History

Exhibition and collaborative research project: Urban Ecologies: City Sensing Beyond the Human lead by Bull.Miletic, ROM for Art and Architecture, 11 February – 21 March 2021

The Aggregate Architectural History Collaborative, essay as part of the Aggregate “Toxics” Project, with Marte Johnslien

PhD committee member for Bin Li, “TRANS-ALPINE LANDSCAPES: Transecting a Chinese High Mountain in Transition”, public defence 9. april 2021

Lecturer at the PhD summer school Designing for Resiliency: RE:GENERATE alpine-urban circularity (ETH Zurich, EPFL Lausanne, MonViso Institute), 5 – 13 June 2021

Editorial Board Member of the Libelli series by Cappelen Damm Akademisk

Editor of the essay series ‘Kunsthistorisk kritikk’ at ArtScene Trondheim

Conference paper: “From White Walls to Human Cells: The Surface Sustainability of Titanium Dioxide, 1916-Present” in the session New Material Histories of Architecture, The Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) Annual Conference, Montreal, Canada, 14-18 April, 2021

Selected Past Projects

Courses taught fall 2020: “Objects of Research” at the PhD Programmet at The Oslo School of Architecture and Design, and “KUH3003 The Politics of Art Historiography” and “KUH2010 Texts that have Influenced Art History” at the Department of Art and Media Studies, NTNU

Public mid-term evaluation of Bjørn Blikstad’s PhD project at The Oslo National Academy of the Arts, 9. October 2020

Journal article “Being Plastic” published in Log 47

Journal article “Arkitekturteoriens nye relevans” [The New Relevance of Architectural Theory] in Arkitektur N no 5 (2019)

Trondheim Form Lab: Website for speculative art history and criticism 

Guest lesture “Are We Plastic? Art and Thinking After Plastic” at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Environmental Humanities Center, 18 November 2019 and at University of Groningen, Research Centre for Arts in Society, 19 November

Recipient of the George R. Collins Fellowship 2019 from The Society of Architectural Historians

Guest lecture “Notes on Flexibility” at The Academy of Arts, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, 7 November 2019

Oslo Architecture Triennale: Public lecture “Degrowth Tendencies of the Norwegian Deep Ecology Movement” at the seminar Degrowth Histories, 28 September 2019

Essay “Kunstfilosofi etter relasjoner” [Art Philosophy After Relations] published at Contemporary Art Stavanger, June 2019

Art essay: “Beholder: Or, the Unthought’s Negation: An Essay on Johanne Hestvold’s Sculptures” in the exhibition catalogue for Sun and Spring in January – Next Generation in Norwegian Contemporary Art at The Astrup Fearnley Museum, 25 January – 5 May 2019

Invited lecture: “Delos Ouroboros: Cybernetics/Brain/Epistemology” The Delos Network: Delos Now, workshop 3, Loughborough University, UK, 4 May 2019

Conference paper: “The Universitas 1972: ‘Radical Left’ and ‘Right-Wing Technocrats.'” The Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) Annual Conference, Providence, USA, 24 – 27 April 2019

Interview with Talent Norge (in Norwegian)

Critic in residence at the Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art in connection to the exhibition project “Platform for Young Norwegian Art and Criticism”, 2018-2019

Book chapter: “Origo: Quantum Field Theory, Deep Ecology, Touch” in A Square on a Sphere: Marte Johnslien (Oslo: Uten tittel, 2018)

Courses taught fall 2018: KUN2500/4500: Art and Criticism in the Anthropocene at the University of Oslo (10 ECTS, BA/MA students)

Convener of Lurid Space: Ecology Beyond Organisms, PhD course at University of Oslo, 1 – 2 November 2018

Book chapter “(V)endepunkt: Plastikk og plastisitet i 1972/3072” in Kollaps: På randen av fremtiden (Oslo: Dreyer forlag, 2018)

Design History Society Essay Prize 2016 Winner for the article “Designs on our Ultimate Environment: Gruppo 9999, Superstudio and the New Ontological Landscape”

Journal article published in Kunst og kultur: «Hvor er nødutgangen? Spekulativ kunsthistorie i Antropocen» [Where’s the Exit? Speculative Art History in the Anthropocene]

Curator and Art Consultant at International Corporate Art, 2013-2014

Journal article published in Kunst og kultur “Systematikk og kulturhistorie: Jens Thiis, Hans Dedekam og debatten om en utstillingsreform” [Systematics and Cultural History: Jens Thiis, Hans Dedekam and the Debate about an Exhibition Reform”