Rikke.Luther@proton.me
News:
The film Dust & Flow had worldpremiere at the Copenhagen Documentary Filmfestival CPH:DOX 2025 and is now screened at the exhibition Dust & Flow at Art Hub Copenhagen until 16th of August:
The exhibition Dust & Flow engages with new scientific climate research, offering an alternative language for articulating the radical transformations occurring within the Earth system.
Later this year a book, Mud … and the Earth System, will be published. The volume brings together a selection of my own recent art works, mappings, and film scripts, with new texts by leading Earth scientists and historians.
Prof Esther Leslie brings political aesthetics to bear on the history of the sublime in relation to the new arctic muds. The renown Earth scientist Prof Katherine Richardson was the lead author of the ground-breaking Planetary Boundaries paper of 2023. For this publication, Katherine has written A muddy diary for the Earth System. Finally, the geo-geneticist Dr Karina K. Sand’s essay explores the concept of deep-time ecosystems in relation to eDNA and the life/non-life of bio-minerals within arctic muds.
A further book, based on my doctoral research, Concrete Aesthetics: From Universal Rights to Post-Democracy (2021)will also be published this year. It comes with an introductory essay by Esther Leslie, and a partner-essay essay by Jaime Stapleton. The Global Commons: In Context recounts the tangled history of the concept that led to the Concrete Aesthetics project, and explores that concepts’ fate in an era of accelerating heat and fracturing international relations.
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Rikke Luther is an artist and researcher. Her current work examines the movements in the Earth System stemming from the man-made environmental and biodiversity crises.
The Ocean-Lands: Mud Within the Earth System builds on previous works exploring the interrelations between landscape, language, politics, financialisation, law, geology, biology, economics, natural history and the Earth System. Research outputs take the form of film and large-scale drawn mappings, distributed in exhibitions, screenings, publications, and pod casts.
Luther is currently finishing the post-doctoral practice-based artistic research The Ocean-Lands: Mud Within the Earth System at Queen Margrethe’s and VigdÃs Finnbogadóttir´s Interdisciplinary Research Centre on Ocean, Climate, and Society (ROCS), Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate (CMEC), Globe Institute, Copenhagen University, DK under Prof. Katherine Richardson.
Luther’s work has been presented in Biennales and Triennales [such as Venice, Singapore, Echigo-Tsumari, Auckland, Göteborg and Sao Paulo]; museums [such as Moderna Museum, Kunsthaus Bregenz, The New Museum, Museo Tamayo, Smart Museum]; exhibitions [such as Beyond Green: Towards a Sustainable Art, 48C Public.Art.Ecology, Über Lebenskunst and Weather Report: Art & Climate Change]: as well as film festivals [such as CPH:DOX* – Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival and the Perth International Film Festival].
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