ALTERNATIVE ECOLOGIES POSTGRADUATE PROGRAM

Kim TallBear is a citizen of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate and Professor of American Indian Studies at the University of Minnesota. Their scholarship examines Indigenous governance, technoscience, genomics, and environmental relations. TallBear is author of Native American DNA and co-founder of SING Canada, supporting Indigenous leadership in genomics. They have held Canada Research Chairs in Indigenous Peoples, Technoscience, and Society, and have advised scientific organizations and museums on race, science, and ethics. Their work foregrounds Indigenous relationality, sovereignty, and responsibility in contemporary science and technology.

Astrida Neimanis is Canada Research Chair in Feminist Environmental Humanities and Associate Professor at UBC Okanagan, working on syilx territory. A practice-led feminist theorist, their research explores water, weather, embodiment, and climate through collaborative work with artists, scientists, and communities. Neimanis is author of Bodies of Water: Posthuman Feminist Phenomenology and co-author of How to Weather Together: Feminist Practice for Climate Change. They direct the FEELed Lab, a creative research space advancing feminist environmental humanities through sensing, experimentation, and collective inquiry.

Jennifer Mae Hamilton is Senior Lecturer in Literary Studies at the University of New England, Australia, working on Anaiwan Country. Their interdisciplinary research investigates weather, embodiment, affect, and climate from a queer feminist perspective. Hamilton leads and collaborates on community-engaged projects including Community Weathering Station and the Armidale Climate and Health Project. Recent publications include Modes of Thermoregulation and How to Weather Together (with Astrida Neimanis). Alongside academic work, Hamilton is active in climate justice organizing and is currently training in Shiatsu and Oriental Therapies, integrating care, research, and community practice.

Karen Barad is Distinguished Professor of History of Consciousness at the University of California at Santa Cruz, with an affiliation in Philosophy. Barad's Ph.D. is in theoretical particle physics and quantum field theory. Barad held a tenured appointment in a physics department before moving into more interdisciplinary spaces. Barad is the author of Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning (Duke University Press, 2007) and numerous articles in the fields of physics, philosophy, science studies, and nuclear studies. Barad's research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Hughes Foundation, the Irvine Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Barad is a founding member of the Science & Justice Research Center and served as the Director of the Science & Justice Graduate Training Program at UCSC. Barad is the recipient of an honorary doctorate from Gothenburg University, a Fulbright fellowship, and the Kresge College Teaching Award, among other honors.

T. J. Demos is a writer and art historian focusing on contemporary art, ecology, decolonization, and global politics. He is Professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, founding Director of the Center for Creative Ecologies, and Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Johannesburg. Demos is an editor of Third Text and Grey Room and author of influential books including Against the Anthropocene, Decolonizing Nature, and Radical Futurisms. His research addresses visual culture as a site for ecological justice, political struggle, and alternative futures.

Filipa Ramos is a writer and curator working at the intersection of art, ecology, and moving-image practices. Her research bridges art history, eco-activism, and film studies, with a focus on more-than-human relations and time-based media. She is Lecturer at the Institute Art Gender Nature (FHNW Basel) and Artistic Director of Loop Festival, Barcelona. Ramos curated the Art Basel Film sector (2020–24) and co-founded the online cinema Vdrome. Recent projects include BESTIARI at the Venice Biennale and The Shape of a Circle in the Mind of a Fish. Her book The Artist as Ecologist is forthcoming.

Laura Tripaldi is a researcher, writer, and postdoctoral fellow at NYU Shanghai’s Center for AI & Culture. With a PhD in Materials Science and Nanotechnology, her work explores materiality, agency, and intelligence across emerging technologies, philosophy, and the arts. Tripaldi investigates matter from an ecological perspective, questioning distinctions between natural and artificial systems. She teaches internationally through lectures and workshops and is author of Parallel Minds: Discovering the Intelligence of Materials, translated into multiple languages. Her research proposes new ways of thinking with materials as active participants in cultural and technological processes.

Lucia Pietroiusti is a curator, programmer, and strategist working at the intersection of art, ecology, and systems thinking. She is Head of Research & Emergence at Hartwig Art Foundation, Amsterdam, contributing to the development of the Hartwig Museum. Previously, she founded Serpentine’s General Ecology project and curated Sun & Sea, the Lithuanian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. Pietroiusti co-authored More-than-Human and The Shape of a Circle in the Mind of a Fish. Her work centers research-led practice, collective care, and experimental institutional models.

Marielsa Castro Vizcarra is a curator whose practice focuses on the intersection of pedagogy and curatorial work. She is currently Chief Curator at the Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellin and an Associate at coopia, a cooperative experiment that explores making through inhabiting and learning as forms of socio-environmental transformation. From 2021 to 2025, she was Associate Curator at Museo Jumex, where she led exhibitions, public programs, and the community-based project Museos en común. Between 2017 and 2019, she oversaw education and public engagement programs at the Unidad de Artes del Banco de la República in Bogotá, fostering initiatives with communities traditionally underserved by museums. Previously, she directed LIGA | Space for Architecture | DF (2012–2015), a platform dedicated to Latin American architecture.

Cooking Sections is a London-based art collective founded by Daniel Fernández Pascual and Alon Schwabe. Their practice investigates how food systems shape spatial, ecological, and political relations under extractivism and climate change. Working across installation, performance, film, and publishing, they use food as both lens and tool to expose metabolic relations between humans, landscapes, and power. Since 2015, they have led CLIMAVORE, a long-term project rethinking eating in changing climates. Cooking Sections has exhibited internationally at major museums, biennials, and public institutions.

Pierre Huyghe Studio supports the conception and production of complex exhibitions and artworks developed by Pierre Huyghe over the past three decades. Operating internationally, the studio coordinates research, fabrication, and collaboration across disciplines, including biology, technology, and performance. Its projects include major presentations at Tate Modern, dOCUMENTA, the Metropolitan Museum, Skulptur Projekte Münster, LUMA Arles, and Pinault Collection. The studio plays a central role in enabling large-scale, evolving environments that challenge exhibition formats and explore living systems, temporality, and human–nonhuman relations.

Anne Stenne is an independent curator based in France with a long-standing collaboration with Pierre Huyghe. Since 2014, she has worked closely on major international exhibitions including After UUmwelt, Variants, Chimera, and Liminal. Stenne has also curated projects with Fabien Giraud and Raphaël Siboni and co-edited publications on contemporary art practice. In 2023, she co-founded The Feral, an experimental artistic platform. Her curatorial approach emphasizes deep artist collaboration, research-driven processes, and long-term engagement.

Anne Sophie Tisseyre is Director of Pierre Huyghe’s studio, based in Santiago, Chile. With a background in film production, she oversees strategy, communication, and the realization of complex, site-specific projects. Since joining the studio in 2017, she has played a central role in assembling specialized teams and managing international collaborations. Tisseyre has produced major works including Camata and contributed to long-term infrastructural developments supporting Huyghe’s practice. Her work bridges artistic vision, production logistics, and institutional relations.

Angelo Custódio is an artist, researcher, and performer working with voice, sound, and writing from a crip-queer perspective. Trained as a classical singer, Custódio explores techno-somatic practices of voicing informed by critical theory and embodied knowledge. Their work creates sonic encounters that attend to vulnerability, listening, and alternative ecologies of living. Custódio is a tutor at the Dutch Art Institute and facilitates regenerative, relational pedagogies. They have presented work internationally and are a recipient of grants from the Amsterdam Fund for the Arts and the Mondriaan Fund.

June Crespo is a sculptor based in Bilbao whose work explores material processes, intuition, and the emotional relations between bodies and objects. Using collage-like procedures and everyday forms, she creates sculptures that question function, scale, and containment. Her practice is rooted in experimentation rather than premeditated narratives, allowing meaning to emerge through making. Crespo has participated in major exhibitions including the Venice Biennale The Milk of Dreams and has held solo exhibitions across Europe. Sculpture functions in her work as a space of bodily and spatial negotiation.

Carlos Monleón is an artist whose practice centers digestion, metabolism, and evolution as systems of exchange and relation. Working with sculpture, participation, sound, and sensory environments, he examines how bodily processes mirror ecological and social systems. His projects often involve collective singing, taste, sweat, and data as tools for shared sensing. River Breathing translated the metabolic life of the Ebro River into sculptural and sonic form. Monleón’s research-based practice is deeply collaborative, developed with scientists, performers, and public institutions.

Rafael Pérez Evans is a Spanish-Welsh artist and educator based in Oxford. Working with sculpture, installation, and sound, his practice explores breakdown as lived condition and political possibility. Informed by queer, rural, and disabled experience, his work engages unstable materials that echo degraded landscapes and marginalized bodies. Pérez Evans is an AHRC Doctoral Scholar at the University of Oxford and a former Sculpture Fellow at the Henry Moore Institute. He has exhibited internationally and taught at leading art schools, emphasizing care, collectivity, and material vulnerability.

Teresa Solar Abboud is an artist whose work examines the morphology of speech and thought through sculpture and drawing. Her practice develops layered narratives around resistance, flow, insulation, and immunity, often using bodily metaphors such as throats, pores, and tunnels. Solar Abboud creates immersive installations composed of interconnected sculptural families, forming ecosystems of meaning. Clay, industrial materials, and found objects coexist in her work, reflecting hybrid organic and synthetic worlds. Her research connects personal bodily experience with broader critiques of progress, infrastructure, and geological time.

Gabriel Alonso is a visual artist and researcher working at the intersection of ecology, science, and critical theory. His practice examines shifting relationships with nature, proposing new bonds between beings, technologies, and environments through installation, sculpture, photography, publishing, and video. Using a transdisciplinary approach that merges theory, artistic production, and curatorial experimentation, he creates speculative systems where hybrid materialities and post-natural narratives converge. Trained in Madrid, Berlin, and New York, he founded the Institute for Postnatural Studies in 2020, promoting critical ecologies, post-natural aesthetics, and new ethics of production through research, exhibitions, and education, and interdisciplinary dialogue across artistic communities.

Cristina Ramos is a curator, researcher, and writer whose practice engages feminist epistemologies, political ecology, and new materialisms. Her work frames curation as a process of remediation between territories and human and more-than-human communities. Through her ongoing project The River in the Mouth, she applies hydro-feminist methodologies to the Llobregat and Manzanares rivers. She serves as Curator and Academic Lead at the Institute of Postnatural Studies, where she leads the postgraduate course Alternative Ecologies. Ramos has curated projects internationally, contributes regularly to art publications, and holds advanced degrees in art praxis and curating.