Tessa Laird

Baroquetopus: Humanimal Entanglements and Tentacular Spectaculars

Tessa Laird

Curated Exhibition, Event or Festival  |  2022

Initiated in 2001, the Octopus series of exhibitions supports ambitious curatorial practice, through engaging an invited curator a..

Introduction

Tessa Laird

Book Chapter  |  2022

Edited by Helen Hughes and Amy May Stuart, with introduction by Tessa Laird. Designed by Zenobia Ahmed. Colour Handling comprises ..

Baroquetopus: Humanimal Entanglements and Tentacular Spectaculars

Tessa Laird

Original Creative Work  |  2022

Initiated in 2001, the Octopus series of exhibitions supports ambitious curatorial practice, through engaging an invited curator a..

Circuit Selects: Animation. Tessa Laird on Jill Kennedy, One Minute Enlightenment

Tessa Laird

Original Creative Work  |  2022

This very short essay describes the short film One Minute Enlightenment while bringing to bear relevant theoretical connections su..

Holey (il)logic! Andrea Gardner’s nonsensical sense.

Tessa Laird

Original Creative Work  |  2022

This essay braids together two threads: playful ekphrastic descriptions of the colour photographic works of Andrea Gardner, and pa..

Locating Echoes

Tessa Laird, Liang Luscombe, Joel STERN

Journal article  |  2022  |  e-flux

Locating Echoes: reverberations between bats and humans

Tessa Laird, Liang Luscombe, Joel STERN

Journal article  |  2022  |  e-flux

part of The Art of Possibly Animate Things, Chapter 3 of You Can’t Trust Music, curated by Xenia Benivolski for e-flux journal.

Pretty Polyglot: Parrotisation as the Difference in Repetition

Tessa Laird

Original Creative Work  |  2021  |  Art Monthly Australia

Pretty polyglot: parrotization as the difference in repetition. In the hall of mirrors that is mimesis, Paul Carter suggests tha..

Zoognosis: When Animal Knowledges Go Viral. Laura Jean Mackay’s The Animals in That Country, Contagion, Becoming-Animal, and the Politics of Predation.

Tessa Laird

Journal article  |  2021  |  Animal Studies Journal

This paper proposes a creative neologism: zoognosis, with an added g, to indicate that knowledges can be transmitted virally from ..

Do-It-Together: Collective action in and against the Anthropocene

Hayley Singer, Anna Dunn, Tessa Laird, Stephanie Lavau, Blanche Verlie

Journal article  |  2021  |  Feral Feminisms

This special issue features creative-critical responses to the theme, “Hacking the Anthropocene: Do-It-Together (DIT).” The “Anthr..