Current
Ways to matterAn auto-ethnographic inquiry into natural wine in four interrelated chapters, each realised as a written essay and a video ethnography.
Natural Wine as symptom
Biodynamic Wine and the future of the rural
Natural Wine, Gentrification, Authenticity
Natural Wine, Belief, Production of authenticity
In progress
Ground ZeroThrough performative reenactment, Ground Zero investigates the production of authenticity in contemporary celebrity documentaries, tracing a line from Gaga: Five Foot Two and The Beckhams to the documentary Melania.
Luxury as a PhobiaThe starting thesis for an auto-ethnographic inquiry into luxury as a tool to filter, buffer, and control exposure to contingency.
Selected past works
BedsoresAn ethnographic portrait of an oil port and its stranded cruise ship with no human beings in sight.Premiered 2024 at Dok Leipzig.
One White WhaleA multi-channel installation of moving image and objects investigating the cruise ship and its rejection as a performance of Western middle-class taste and aspiration.
Corporate JobAn auto-ethnographic vignette on creative labour, corporate capitalism, and the commodification of authenticity.
This only happens hereA critique of urban branding and the language of creative capitalism, 2014
CarpA fantasia on themes of civic engagement presented in 2014 atThe Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT
Lehmbruckstrasse, Friedrichshain, Berlin A short ethnographic film about memory, domestic space, and the former GDR, 2012.