Michelle Teran’s current research prioritizes critical care, regenerative practices, and transformative pedagogy, with a specific focus on ecologies of care, collective grief, feminist, decolonial, and eco-social pedagogies. She situates her work within social practice, at the intersection of art, research, activism, teaching, and community engagement. Her multidisciplinary practice encompasses film, text, publications, performance, installation, public readings, online works, research and study groups, participatory events, pedagogic experimentation, and public space interventions.
Index:
Learning to Grow Learning to Grieve * Learning Grounds * Promiscuous Care Study Group * Promiscuous Infrastructures Practicing Care * Utterances: Composing a Care-informed Research Practice in the Cracks * To Sleep Together in Comfort (which is politics) * Learning and Dreaming through Social Uncertainty * Everything Gardens! * The Slow Reading Group * Situationer Workbook/Cookbook * Future Guides: From Information to Home * Synsmaskinen * Dignity/Dignidad * The Reclaiming Workshop *The Obra Social Manual * Mixité * Mortgaged Lives * Rupture Sessions * Folgen Archive * Microhistories * Urban Takes Helsinki * Folgen * Ilica 1 * Random Encounters * What Can the City Do for You? * The City is Creative * Buscando al Sr. Goodbar * Parasitic Video Network * Project for a City. Girona * Experiments in Open Air Cinema * 17 Cities * A20 Recall * Life: A User’s Manual * Exploration #5 * Peek-a-Boo Cantenna * Black Leather Projector Purse * LiveForm: Telekinetics (LF:TK) * Flatlandia * Interfacing Radiotopia/Keyworx * AFK
Learning to Grow Learning to Grieve
2022-
Soft scores and preparations for regenerative growing and grief-informed practices
Learning Grounds
2022-
Eco-social experimentation on learning through and with our gardens
Co-intiated with Renée Turner
Promiscuous Care Study Group
2021-2024
Multi-year artistic research project
Funded by the Research Centre Willem de Kooning Academy
Promiscuous Infrastructures Practicing Care
2024
Book
Michelle Teran, Marc Herbst, Vivian Sky Rehberg, Renée Turner, and The Promiscuous Care Study Group (eds.)
288 pages with 82 color pages
Exposed spine binding. Language: English.
Publisher Journal for Aesthetics & Protest
Utterances Composing a Care-Informed Research Practice in the Cracks
2024
Book
with Promiscuous Care Study Group
60 Pages, 2 colour, softcover
Co-publishers HumdrumPress, Meteoro Editions and Research Centre Willem de Kooning Academy
To Sleep Together in Comfort (Which is Politics)
2021
24-hour Workshop
with Marc Herbst
Hosted by The Floating University
Learning and Dreaming Together through Social Uncertainty
2022
24-hour Workshop
with Marc Herbst
Hosted by the Zurich University of the Arts
Everything Gardens! Growing from the Ruins of Modernity
2020
Book
Editors: Marc Herbst and Michelle Teran
144 Pages, 2 colour, softcover
ADOCS Verlag, nGbK publishers
The Slow Reading Group
2021
Transdisciplinary research group
Financial support from the Creative Europe Programme of the EU
Situationer Workbook /Cookbook
2021
Book
Michelle Teran with Johanna Monk, Teana Boston-Mammah, and Clementine Edwards (eds.)
246 pages, soft cover
Research Centre WdKA and Publication Studio publishers
Future Guides: From Information to Home
2010-2015
artistic research project
Norwegian Artistic Fellowship Programme
Synsmaskinen
2013-2016
Multi-year artistic research project
University of Bergen funded by the Norwegian Artistic Research Program
Dignity / Dignidad
2016
film, 88 minutes
Synsmaskinen producer with financial support by the Norwegian Artistic Research Program
The Reclaiming Workshop
2016
public intervention and performative reading
Synsmaskinen producer with financial support by the Norwegian Artistic Research Program
The Obra Social Manual
2016
book translation
Synsmaskinen producer with financial support by the Norwegian Artistic Research Program
Mixité
2015
short films, installation, public reading
Commissioned by La Chambre Blanche, Quebec City
Mortgaged Lives
2014
film
Duration: 42 minutes
Supported by the Canada Council for the Arts and the Norwegian Artistic Research Fellowship Program
Mortgaged Lives
2014
book translation
216 pages, b/w softcover
Journal of Aesthetics & Protest publisher with assistance by Traficantes de Sueños
Supported by the Canada Council for the Arts and the Norwegian Artistic Research Fellowship Program
Rupture Sessions
2014-
staged reading
Supported by La Chambre Blanche and PAH Madrid
Folgen Archive
2014
limited edition artist book
264 pages, full colour, hardcover, dust jacket
Supported by the Canada Council for the Arts and the Norwegian Artistic Research Fellowship Program
Folgen
2012
lecture performance
Duration: 50 minutes
Supported by the Norwegian Artistic Research Fellowship Program
Microhistories
2013-2015
Multi-year artistic research project
Funded by The Swedish Research Counsel
Urban Takes Helsinki
2012
documentary narrative
Produced for Media Façades Festival Helsinki, 2012. M-Cult producer.
Folgen
2011
installation and performance
Produced for Tracing Mobility: Cartography and Migration in Networked Space, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin. Trampoline, curators.
Ilica 1
2011
Performance lecture and city tour
Commissioned by the Urban Festival, Zagreb.
Random Encounters
2010
urban tour
Commissioned by Museum Folkwang for Hacking the City, Essen. Sabine Marie Schmidt, curator.
Co miasto może zrobić dla Ciebie? (What can the City do for You?)
2010
installation and intervention
Commissioned by Mediations Biennale, Poznan. Ryszard Kluszczynski, curator.
The City is Creative
2009
site-specific installation
Commissioned by Baltan Laboratories through an artist-in-residence and presented at the Flux-S Festival, Eindhoven.
Baltan Laboratories and Flux-S Festival co-producers.
Buscando al Sr. Goodbar
2009
bus tour happening
Commissioned by Centro Parraga (Murcia) for Techformance, a project that looks at the relation of technology and performance in the territory of global communication. For 28 ARCOMadrid. Curator Oscar Abril Ascaso.
Parasitic Video Network
2008
roaming video network installed within various architectural sites
Materials: wireless surveillance cameras, custom electronics, monitor, constructed object
Produced through an artist-in-residence at The Interactive Institute, Sweden with additional funding by The Canada Council for the Arts
Parasitic Video Interceptor (aka The Spy)
2008
performance object
Dimensions: 60 cm x 25 cm x 8 cm
Materials: custom electronics, recordable monitor, hand-stitched leather, video receiver, antenna
Funding by The Canada Council for the Arts
Project for a City. Girona
2008
urban projection
Commissioned and produced by Bolit Centre d’Art Contemporani, Girona. Curator Rosa Pera.
Friluftskino: Experiments in Open Air Surveillance Cinema
2007
urban projection using found surveillance
Curated by Susanne Jaschko for Urban Interface Oslo. Atelier Nord, Oslo, producer.
17 Cities
2008
3 channel video installation
Duration: approx 30 minutes
A20 Recall
2007
installation and online map
Materials: computer, monitor, press clippings, photographs, dvd player.
Produced during an artist-in-residence at La Chambre Blanche, Quebec City.
Life: A User’s Manual
2003-2006
walking performance using found surveillance
Curated within many festivals including the Transmediale Festival and Ars Electronica. Awarded honorary mention Interactive Art, Prix Ars Electronica
Exploration #5
2006
video walk
Materials: video transmitters, video receiver, dvd players, surveillance cameras, constructed object
Created for Podeweil, Berlin. Commissioned by Tesla.
Peek-a-Boo Cantenna
2006
performance object
Dimensions: 25 cm x 25 cm x 15 cm
Materials: mixed media, LCD monitor, video receiver, cabling
Black Leather Projector Purse
2006
performance object
Dimensions: 35 cm x 25 cm x 15 cm
Materials: modified purse, projector, video scanner, battery
LiveForm:Telekinetics (LF:TK)
2001-2004
networked social installation
in collaboration with Jeff Mann
Materials: mixed media, robotics, custom electronics and software
Commissioned by Waag Society for Old and New Media (Amsterdam) with additional funding by The Canada Council for the Arts
2nd place winner Vida Art&Artificial Life Award
Flatlandia
2004
web project
in collaboration with Amanda Ramos
Developed during an artist-in-residency at StudioXX, Montreal.
Interfacing Radiotopia/Keyworx
2003
networked performance
Commissioned for the Dutch Electronic Arts Festival.
AFK
2002
a series of online and offline performances
in collaboration with Isabelle Jenniches