Micaela Terk
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Micaela Terk (New York, 1990) is a designer-facilitator and writer-publisher with a background in conflict mediation and movement research. Her workshops, events, projects, and writings shed light on bodily sense-making as integral to knowledge production. Micaela extends movement-based invitations in educational institutions: i.e. universities, museums, research institutes, and academic conferences. She frequents the role of disruptor when possible. Her work as an educator holds space for nurturing connections between creative movement, language, and critical making.


Micaela is the founder of Goodbye Books and director & co-founder of the Embodied Knowledge Bureau. She is also a founding member of infiguringout, an international collective that integrates movement-based and somatic approaches within design education and practice.

Education
2020-2022

Sandberg Instituut

MFA Design
2011-2016
Bezalel Academy of Art & Design
BDes Visual Communication
Selected Workshops and Talks

July 2024

Negotating Space (with Filippa Christofalou)

Power in Transformation, University of Bolzano

April 2024

Digestive Writing

Nissan Nativ Acting Studio

November 2023

School for Somatic Practices in Conversation

A-Z Presents, Berlin

October 2023

Digestive Writing

ASH Berlin: Future Universities

August 2023

Digestive Writing

Weizmann Institute of Science

July 2023

EKB Field School

The School, Hasselt

January 2023

Digestive Writing

Utrecht University

November 2022

Digestive Writing

Columbia University Teacher's College

May 2022

Digestive Writing

Erfurt University: Aesthetics & Affects of Power

June 2020
Artists Disobey #2
VR Conference
December 2019
InPrint Art Book Fair

Hansen House

September 2019
Friends with Books
Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
December 2018

Self-Publishing Roundtable

Artis, Jaffa

Selected Performances & Exhibitions
June 2022
Relatively, Speaking
Kunstkappel, Amsterdam
November 2019
Hauntology of the Cloud (Solo)
Panke gallery, Berlin
September 2019
Mnemonic Gesture
Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
July 2019
The Wandering Node
Z33, Genk
May 2019

Performance Art Festival

BcmA, Berlin
April 2019
Printed Matter's LAABF
MOCA, Los Angeles
March 2019
Fully Booked
Alserkal Avenue, Dubai
December 2018 & 2019
InPrint
Hansen House, Jerusalem
October 2018 & 2019
Friends with Books
Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
September 2018
Printed Matter's NYABF
MoMA PS1, New York
June 2017
Design Desk
Jerusalem Design Week
October 2013
What is a Smart Home?

Designers' Open, Leipzig

March 2016
Buch! Buch!

Leipziger Buchmesse

Selected Writings

October 2024

A Conversation on Aesthetics and Affects of Power, with Achenbrenner & Lange

Implicit Religion Journal

March 2023

In Conversation with Bogomir Doringer

Extra Intra Reader #2: A Slight Breath, Rietveld Academie

February 2023

On Possibilities for Sensory Research

Material Religion: The Journal of Objects, Art and Belief, Taylor & Francis

April 2022
On Somatic Pedagogy (with Shibolet & Turnbull)

Disloyal to the Structure Reader, Rietveld Academie

May 2021

B is for Breath

Rietveld Academie

September 2018

Techniques of Invisibility (Self-Published)

Goodbye Books

Ⓒ All rights reserved 2019
Design: Nir Shaked & Micaela Terk, Development: Nir Shaked

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