Susan Ballard - Performing Landscapes Lab 2023 

SUSAN BALLARD / Associate Prof., Te Herenga Waka - Wellington University
Susan Ballard is ass prof. at Te Herenga Waka - Wellington University, New Zealand. Susan is an interdisciplinary art historian and writer. Her research sits in the fields of contemporary art history and environmental humanities, and examines the histories of nature in contemporary art with a particular focus on artists from Asia-Pacific. From 2011-2020, Susan was Co-Director of the Centre for Critical Creative Practice
Her recent publications have focused on how artists have responded to species extinctions, energy, disaster, geology and landscape in the Anthropocene; Alliances in the Anthropocene: Fire, Plants and People (2020), and A Transitional Imaginary: Space, Network and Memory in Christchurch (2015).
Susan’s presentation will be based on her recent book Art and Nature in the Anthropocene: Planetary Aesthetics published by Routledge in 2021.
This talk was part of Performing Landscapes Lab 2023 organised by Metropolis - Københavns Internationale Teater with the support of the Nordea Foundation
www.metropolis.dk/performing-landscapes-laboratorium