In 1970 the arctic area, around the Northpole gained legal status as Common Heritage of Mankind. Yet its protected status has been challenged by virtually all neighbouring nations.

As the notion that certain resources belong to mankind as a whole, is seemingly failing, the need for non-anthropocentric politics becomes clear. How could other mammals contribute in this dialogue? “Common Heritage” interweaves stories of deep-sea datastreams and information-warfare, with that of the allegedly Russian spy-whale Hvaldimir, who since April 2019 has been residing near Norwegian town Hammersfest.

The masters department of interior architecture at KABK publish a magazine annually to review the activities taking place in and outside of the academy. Together with Linea Lan Cai I designed the 10th issue of the INSIDE Magazine, under the theme ‘Situated Knowledges’.

A collaborative research project with textile-student Max W. Westin, on the topic of magic and witchcraft. The texts are compiled around the speculative notion that divinity is disguised in the coding of social media, leading a global cult of blind followers. The result is an compilation of poetry, conversation transcripts, song lyrics, and satanic blog posts, divided into chapters taking name from different instagram phenomena like ’filters’ ‘insights’ and ‘feed’ giving new meaning to these.

The publication documents a process of different experiments, focusing on colour and hierarchy. The departure point was a collection of colourful trash pieces, which inspired further research into plastic chairs, immigration law, cultural appropriation and Scandinavian design.

Erotan is the collaboratively invented utopia, where touch is the favoured mean of communication, as inhabitants are visually impaired and see just four colours. The artifacts reflect Erotan’s values of cleanliness and empathy, coexisting in nature their instruments enables economic exchange, incubating infants and group massages, and were presented at the Grey Space in the Middle, the Hague.

With Aliz Soos, Mika Schalks, and Aurora Navarro Villacampa

The two books “Ways of Seeing” by John Berger and “The Wretched of the Screen” by Hito Steyerl, are combined in this publication.

Written thirty years apart, both authors argue for a critical approach to images and their reproductions, and so the book is itself a reproduction of a book. The texts are interwoven in a dialogue without chapters, just the inversion of black and white separates them, and the transitions are made by hand tearing the paper of the original.

These are festive days —Life must go on —Tomorrow a new year will begin —The year has 365 days These are all statements from the Danish queen Margrethe II’s annual New Year’s speech. However trivial her observations, they seem oddly profound, when performed in this formal setting of matching bouquet and dress.

Subtitled speeches are paired with news footage from the following year in colours corresponding to that of her outfit on New Year’s Eve. The publication was made from a philatelic album and contains documentation of the installation.