Welcome to this talk by artist and writer Crystal Bennes on her We Eat the Earth project on the global fertiliser industry and her photographic practice. The talk is organised by the Environmental Media and Aesthetics research program at Aarhus University together with the Design and Aesthetics for Environmental Data project (AUFF / AU).

Online at aarhusuniversity.zoom.us/j/62120020918

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We Eat the Earth is five-year artistic research project on the global fertiliser industry and how our collective appetite reshape the earth. Grounded in theoretical frameworks of reciprocal landscapes and ghost acres, the work investigates relationships between industrial agriculture, climate crisis, chemical warfare, settler colonialism and extractivism through connected sites across Europe and North Africa.

Bio

Crystal Bennes is a visual artist and writer whose work critically examines the intersecting threads of environmental extractivism, financialisation, technologies of war, and gendered histories. She has exhibited widely and internationally including at: British Textile Biennial, UK (2025); Gallery Format, Malmö (2025); Noorderlicht Photography Biennial, Netherlands (2025); Freelands Gallery, London (2024); Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh (2024); and Centre Photographique d’Île-de-France, Paris (2023).

In 2025, she is artist-in-residence at the Irish Museum for Modern Art in Dublin working on colonial histories of mapmaking. She has twice been an artist in residence at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (2018, 2020), and between 2022-24, was a Freelands Foundation Fellow at Talbot Rice Gallery, University of Edinburgh.

https://www.crystalbennes.com/