Part of SKULKESKOLEN, 2–6 September 2026
Kathryn Yusoff, Professor of Inhuman Geography at Queen Mary University of London, works at the fault lines between geology, race, and subjectivity, tracing how inhuman and nonorganic materialities underwrite these categories and their relations. Nolan Oswald Dennis is an artist, currently in residence at Bergen Kunsthall’s Live Studio. Dennis’ practice works through the material and metaphysical layers of decolonization, their recent research turning toward Black Earth Study, a cosmo-poetic framework that stages an encounter between Black Study and Earth Science.
The two practices share a common grammar. Structured as a call-and-response, this conversation gives space for Dennis and Yusoff to sound through a shared vocabulary, across geology and cosmology, sediment and study, extraction and refusal. Together, they ask how the ground itself becomes a site of memory, relation, and world-making beyond the colonial imagination.