Earth Matters The Aesthetics and Politics of Soil

Kassandra Nakas received a PhD in art history from the Freie Universität Berlin and a postdoctoral qualification (Habilitation) from Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, where she is also teaching. Previously, she was a visiting professor at the University of Arts (UdK) Berlin, the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Karlsruhe, and the Ludwig Maximilians Universität in Munich.

Jessica Ullrich is visiting professor for aesthetics and art history at the University of Fine Arts Münster. Before that she has taught art history at universities in Berlin, Frankfurt, Erlangen, Nürnberg, Münster, Flensburg, Graz and São Paulo. She publishes widely on human-animal relations in contemporary art and curated art exhibitions and video screenings on the same topic in Berlin, Utrecht, and São Paulo.