Daphne Plessner

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Bio

Before joining ECU, Dr. Fawn Daphne Plessner was Senior Lecturer and Course Director in Book Arts & Design at the University of the Arts, London. She holds a PhD in Art & Politics and a BA Philosophy from the University of London. She studied painting at the Akademie der Bildenden Kunste, Germany. She has exhibited in the UK and Europe. Her recent focus has been public art interventions and audio-based artworks that experiment with journalistic methods like interviews, newspapers and podcasts.

Websites:

• tree-museum.com

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Research Interests

Fawn’s art-research is influenced by Indigenous world views with specific interest in how more-than-human beings are regarded as social and political members of a community within Indigenous laws. Her doctoral research investigated the emergence of 'citizen art' as a new field of practice, showing how artists enact new modes of citizenship. Her book, Doing Politics with Citizen Art examines how artists address the adverse effects of status citizenship. It also discusses how her own public art interventions make visible the intersection of speciesism and colonial land appropriation within Canada. She founded the Tree Museum, an online art-research platform that traces the impact of suburban aesthetics and colonial imaginaries on forests and animal lives. The Tree Museum also supports the advancement of W̱SÁNEĆ law and governance within her island home, the unceded lands of the W̱SÁNEĆ people.