About me
Anna Ziya Geerling is a Dutch multimedia artist and researcher who explores the plurality of cultural relationships with the more-than-human world (‘nature’) to address the socio-cultural and economic roots of ecological crises from a decolonial lens. For her MPhil in Indigenous Studies, she wrote her thesis on ‘Weaving Socio-Ecological Narratives & Pedagogies: Conservation & Biocultural Diversity in Nagaland’, exploring spiritually informed storytelling as complementary/counter-narratives to Western science-based environmental education. As a multimedia artist, she seeks to spur people into re-enchantment and re-membrance of their entanglement with ‘the natural world,’ using photography, text/poetry, video, sound, ceramics, installations, and performance. She currently is the co-coordinator of the research project ‘Ekologos’ at UiT The Arctic University of Norway, which engages pedagogically with critical climate changes affecting the Arctic, South America, South Asia, and Himalayan regions, connecting universities and research institutes in Norway, Brazil, and India, including the Highland Institute in Nagaland.