Online Talk#36: Herbs, Stones, Things: Cosmological Dialogues on Ecological Uncertainty

Saturday, 13 June 2026, 10-11 AM JST

Speaker: Anais-karenin (artist and independent researcher, PhD in Arts)

Drawing from complexity as a grounded method of artistic practice and research, Anais-karenin will present a selection of artworks alongside the central aspects of her PhD thesis, exploring language as a route through incomprehensibility and as a way to question the colonial ontologies of life and nature. Her works employ transductive methodologies that translate herbal matter into vibrational sound, scent, sculpture, installation, image, and writing, traversing ecological stories from the Brazilian Sertão alongside the forests, rivers, and mountains of Japan. Interweaving cosmogonies, eco-critical perspectives, and sensory processes, the lecture interrogates how artistic practice can operate as a space where matter, perception, and language continuously transform one another, and where writing itself becomes a material and relational process of world-making.

About Speaker: https://nakanojo-biennale.com/artist/anais-karenin

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