Aesthetica Art Prize

Exhibition from 16 February – 21 April 2024. York Art Gallery, UK.

Art is a powerful agent of change. Throughout history it has influenced societies, challenged norms, questioned the status quo, raised awareness and prompted new perspectives. It reflects the cultural context in which it is created, and, by capturing the essence of our times, the artists in the Aesthetica Art Prize are contributing to society’s ongoing evolution. This year we present 21 artists from across the world who offer creativity as a form of expression. They tap into poignant emotions and motivate us to act, inspiring a collective response to challenges facing society. They remind us that the connection between artist and viewer can drive transformation, fostering greater empathy and understanding.

Theresa Schubert

After an incredible two-year journey around Australia the Experimenta Life Forms Triennial has arrived to its last stop in Noosa. My work “Sound for Fungi – Homage to Indeterminacy” has been displayed across 4 states, in 7 regional venues and seen by more than 200.000 people. I’m Fungi-enthusiastic for this achievement and for having had the honor to be part of this incredible adventure!🍄

If some of you have missed it you can still have a look on the website of the Experimenta Life Forms.

I’m delighted to be invited by Waag Futurelab to be a speaker at the Berlin Science Week on November 4th at the Museum für Naturkunde from 11.30 AM – 01.00 PM (Berlin Time).

The Panel “Listen to the Artist!” will be an important occasion for assembling and delving into significant topics. During the session we will also showcase our work. I will be present with another STARTs Laureate: Richard Mosse, Anna Berti Suman—an esteemed researcher and activist specializing in civic environmental monitoring and Maro Pebo.

Here is a link to watch the panel discussion online: https://www.youtube.com/live/Wv5ukhdhRr0?si=JW-VL2PYQxJ1mxT-

I was invited as a speaker to the 1st International Conference Methodological and Cognitive Aspects of Visual Arts  at the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Arts and Design (Akademia Sztuk Pięknych im. Eugeniusza Gepperta) on the 29th of September.

“The conference’s primary goal is to compare research methods and practices within art and science. We focus here mainly on visual art, understood as a vast domain which includes such fields as fine art, design, and art theory. However, speakers who wish to refer to other art disciplines like music or theatre are also welcome if their interests align with the topics of the conference panels.

During the sessions, we will consider various approaches to characterizing the research process within art, examining methods like “artistic research” or “art-based research.” A wide range of issues concern the relationship between art and science, including methodological comparisons (similarities and differences) and the indication of potential fields for interdisciplinary cooperation.”

https://www.asp.wroc.pl/en/news/1st-international-conference-methodological-and-cognitive-aspects-visual-arts

UPDATE: The panel went very well and here are some photos from that day: https://www.asp.wroc.pl/en/news/1st-international-conference-methodological-and-cognitive-aspects-visual-arts-part-3

The “Glacier Trilogy” is longlisted for the LUMEN Immersive Environment Award and  and received a nomination for this year’s STARTS prize 2023.

It is also featured in the beautiful book Art + Water, that provides imaginative new ideas on water issues and invites us to rethink and reinvent our society. The book has been published by v2 Rotterdam. 

https://www.lumenprize.com/2023-immersive-environment-award-longlist/the-glacier-trilogy

https://store.v2.nl/products/art-water

HYLĒ as part of “Wüste der Wirklichkeiten” (Desert of reality)

Welcome to the desert of the real. [Morpheus to Neo in the film Matrix]

With this set piece by the media philosopher Jean Baudrillard, Morpheus introduces Neo’s preparation for his task when he reveals Neo to live in a dream world that exists only as part of a neuro-interactive simulation – a matrix – while he is in a destroyed, sun-darkened world ruled by machines: “Welcome to the desert of reality”. In the film, the beginning of the Matrix is defined by the creation of the systems of AI. In fact, applications of AI have long permeated all areas of our lives, impacting our decisions and social relationships as well as influencing the economy, politics, and society.

In the Desert of Realities exhibition, the use of technology no longer appears only as a dystopian model of a gloomy vision ofthe future or as a representation of the current state, but also as part of the solution that we should embrace: It makes a difference whether you only know a path, or whether you walk that path. [Morpheus]

Artists: Etsuko Ichihara , Amy Karle, Flavia Mazzanti, Surzhana Radnaeva, Vivien Roussel,Christine Schörkhuber, Theresa Schubert, Winnie Soon, Tzu Tung Lee, Zhe Wang

Co-production with Constant VZW Brüssel, Immerea, kunst_@_werk, Mori Art Museum Tokyo; a cooperation in the frame of steirischer herbst ’23; co-operation with ORF musikprotokoll 2023

https://esc.mur.at/en/projekt/desert-realities

Post-Digital Intersections begins with the Intersecting Realities exhibition hosted at Ștefania Palace, in Timișoara (RO), part of the Timișoara 2023 – European Capital of Culture program. The exhibition presents 6 international artists, opening a wide dialogue of sharing practices and artistic research-oriented approaches, tackling themes surrounding environment, ecology and technological impact on both human and non-human life in contemporary society.

Post-Digital Intersections begins with the Intersecting Realities exhibition hosted at Ștefania Palace, in Timișoara (RO), part of the Timișoara 2023 – European Capital of Culture program.

Artists: Anderwald+Grond, Antoni Rayzhekov, Kasia Molga,Marco Barotti, Sabina Suru, Theresa Schubert

Curated by Claudia Schnugg + Andrei Tudose

https://timisoara2023.eu/en/projects/post-digital-intersections/

SOIL CONVERSATIONS presents a series of propositions, stretching over time and space. Concerning history and possible futures while thinking with soil as something rhizomatic, it questions the concept of linearity, making a case for the interstitial. What does it mean to think with — and of — soil as a space of meaning and identity making? As a space for excavation? As an archive of history and a political actor?

The exhibition presents nine artistic positions from South Africa and Germany that explore the materiality of earth, our relationship to soil as a basis for life, and earth as a carrier of memory, identity, and future.

Artists: Lungiswa Gqunta, MADEYOULOOK, Io Makandal, Silvia Noronha, Nnenna Onuoha, Natalie Paneng, Theresa Schubert, Gemma Shepherd & Rochelle Nembhard Mia Thom.

Curators: Nisha Merit and Yolanda Kaddu-Mulindwa with Bubblegum Club.

Following the exhibition at GALERIE IM KÖRNERPARK,  it is now on view at JOHANNESBURG ART GALLERY from August 27 to November 18, 2023.

https://www.soilconversations.com/

The exhibition’s catalog of “Membrane out of Order” will be launched on March 30th at 7:00 p.m. at the Bezirksbibliothek Pablo Neruda in Berlin. Next to the book there will be a short video screening of the exhibition’s documentation.

Compiled as an exhibition catalog and at the same time as a philosophical inquiry, it features texts by the three artists (Margherita Pevere, Karolina Żyniewicz and Theresa Schubert), with the inputs of philosopher Margrit Shildrick and art historian Olga Majcen Linn.

You can order the book here!

My work “HYLĒ” has been longlisted for the Aesthetica Art Prize 2023 in the category “Mixed Media”. The exhibition and award ceremony will take place at the York Art Gallery (UK) on March 23rd 2023.

“HYLĒ” is also mentioned in the 20th Anniversary Edition of Aesthetica Magazine. Next to the award exhibition, Aesthetica is hosting a 2-day symposium 23-24 of March and it’s called “The Future Now Symposium”: an exploration of 21st Century culture through the mechanism of art.

You can have a look here

I am delighted to speak and exhibit at the 6th G-STIC (Global Sustainable Technological and Innovation Community) Conference Rio de Janeiro from 13 – 15 February 2023

https://www.gstic.org/rio/speakers/cross-thematic/

The COVID-19 pandemic exposed and amplified many of the world’s inequalities, vulnerabilities, and unsustainable practices. However, it was in some ways a distraction from the triple planetary crisis of climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution that threatens even greater consequences for humanity. The Russia-Ukraine war is also a tragic reminder of why the 2030 agenda is so urgent and relevant.

To guarantee a sustainable recovery, it is crucial to harness the power of science, technology and innovation (STI) to address all aspects of the 2030 Agenda. There is an urgent need to use environmentally sound technologies to mitigate climate change, stop the loss of biodiversity, and help with ecosystem conservation. It is imperative to utilize circular economy principles, nature-based solutions, and systems-based approaches to explore new ways to redesign our systems, products, and services.

Based on the international artistic positions, the exhibition Mein Körper, ein Korallenriff? // My Body, a Coral Reef? at the Rudolf-Scharpf-Galerie of the Wilhelm-Hack-Museum humorously and critically pursues questions related to humans’ currently changing self-perception in the Post-Anthropocene.

Artists: Arjan Brentjes, Imayna Caceres, Alicia Frankovich, Dominique Koch, Pei-Ying Lin, Theresa Schubert, Saša Spačal, Emma Wilson

Curator: Julia Katharina Thiemann

A catalogue will be published in conjunction with the exhibition containing numerous illustrations of the artistic works as well as in-depth contributions by Lynn Margulis, Andreas Reckwitz, Saša Spačal, Julia Katharina Thiemann and René Zechlin.

https://www.wilhelmhack.museum/de/ausstellungen/vorschau/mein-koerper-ein-korallenriff

Membranes Out of Order
An exhibition by and with Karolina Żyniewicz, Theresa Schubert and Margherita Pevere

https://membranesoutoforder.de/

Opening December 9th, on view until January 8th 2023
Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin

Membranes Out Of Order responds to the current ethical and cultural challenges posed by the interplay of biotechnology and ecology. It focuses on the thought-provoking practice of Berlin-based artists Margherita Pevere, Theresa Schubert and Karolina Żyniewicz and involves international guests.

Supported by

21 Oct. → 4 Dec.’22 @ BOZAR, Palais des Beaux-Arts, rue Ravenstein 23, 1000 Bruxelles
Faces of Water – Art Meets Awareness is curated by Sofie Crabbé.
Bozar is a partner of the S+T+ARTS network and the STARTS4Water programme, co-financed by the European Commission’s S+T+ARTS initiative.

I would like to cordially invite you to the exhibition Faces of Water at BOZAR in Brussels. In this show my works developed during the STARTS4Water residency at Cittadellarte-Fondazione Pistoletto will officially premiere: The Glacier Trilogy.

We are facing unprecedented challenges around the globe. In the next 100 years, the ocean will change more than in the past 50 million years. Glaciers are melting, sea levels are rising dramatically, and pollutants are constantly flowing into our streams from industry.
With the “Faces of Water – Art and Awarness” exhibition, Bozar is zooming in on recent research and artistic creations by four artists: Theresa Schubert, Joshua G. Stein, Haseeb Ahmed and Anna Ridler.

Last a reading tip: I am honored that mEat me is featured in The Anthropocene Cookbook published by Zane Cerpina & Stahl Stenslie with MIT Press. The Anthropocene Cookbook takes our planetary state of emergency as an opportunity to seize the moment to imagine constructive change and new ideas. How can we survive in an age of constant environmental crises?

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In the exhibition The Unrestricted Society, the artists probe into the issues and dilemmas surrounding technological development from different perspectives, such as the way we view digital privacy in the sense of “we are the data,” potential problems with digital surveillance, facial recognition and deepfakes, as well as looking at possible options for alleviating food crises through cloning. Besides, given the intermediary role of technology, the works featured in this exhibition reveal the artists’ attempt at transdisciplinary collaboration. They employ new technologies to explore how artistic concepts can transmute abstract data or contents, insofar as to create unprecedented sensory experiences.
The location is quite special itself, as the C-LAB is based at a compound once used by Taiwan’s Air Force.

Exhibition: 24th of September – 27th of November
Curator｜CHUANG Wei-Tzu

Participating artists｜ Memo AKTEN, Kyriaki GONI, CHENG Hsien-Yu, Paolo CIRIO, SLITSCOPE (KIM Jae-Min & KIM Keun-Hyoung), Theresa SCHUBERT, Halsey BURGUND & Francesca PANETTA, CHEN Yi, Unhappy Circuit, CHANG Yung-Ta, FAMEME, Her Lab Space (AU Sow Yee, CHEN Yow Ruu)

I am very happy that HYLĒ was invited for a new version co-produced by PINA for the 10th edition of IZIS festival.
IZIS explores the impact of technology on culture, society and nature through the lens of cutting-edge artistic works. It gathers artists, thinkers and an adventurous crowd who experience new narratives that give insight to complex topics such as audio/visual techniques, robotics, hybrid materials, kinetic sculptures, immersive installations, mind-bending experiences and questions how technology will influence the future.

Opening: Sept 23 2022, 8 pm
Exhibition: Sept 23 – Oct 16 2022
Libertas Warehouse, festival venue in Koper, Slovenia.

Participating artists: Marco Barotti, Maja Smrekar & Jonas Jørgensen, BridA, Sara Bezovšek an more

Lumen Prize Longlist category 3D/Interactive Award

It is my great pleasure to announce that HYLĒ has been selected for the 2022 Lumen Prize Longlist. This art Prize celebrates the „very best art created with technology through a global competition“. The awards ceremony is on the 19th of October 2022. The Shortlist will be announced on September 22. We will keep you posted!

I’m thrilled to present the results of my STARTS4water residency at Cittadellart-Fondazione Pistoletto as part of there big summer show “Arte al Centro” from July 1 – September 25 2022.

ᴀ ʙɪᴏ-ᴄʏʙᴇʀɴᴇᴛɪᴄ ɪɴꜱᴛᴀʟʟᴀᴛɪᴏɴ ʙʏ ᴛʜᴇʀᴇꜱᴀ ꜱᴄʜᴜʙᴇʀᴛ ᴡɪᴛʜ ɪᴠᴀɴ ᴛᴀʀᴀɴɪɴ

In Aristotelian philosophy, hylē is the original substance, the primordial matter that only takes shape through human processing (tecnē).*

I am very excited to share with you, that my work is included in the group exhibition 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗡𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀 at the 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗲 𝗣𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗶𝗱𝗼𝘂, opening 22.02.2022!

Always Dead and Alive (green scenery), 2019

is included in a special video program by The Wrong, an important online platform for digital art since 2013. Amongst others my video was part of 𝘾𝙡𝙪𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙙 𝙈𝙞𝙣𝙙𝙨, a screening series which was organized as medienkunst e.V. – Verein für zeitgenössische Kunst mit neuen Medien in cooperation with 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗪𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗴. Focusing on digital culture, the video works show different visual worlds dedicated to the themes of the (post)digital age.

With works by mkv members: Dovile Aleksaite, Banz & Bowinkel, Jonas Blume, Ornella Fieres, Laura Fong Prosper, Patricia Detmering, Jana Doell, Manja Ebert, Getrüda Gilyte, Franziska Harnisch, Daniel Hengst, Kathrin Hunze, Sabrina Labis, Sarah Oh-Mock, Lauren Moffatt, Dani Ploeger, Alla Popp, Julia Charlotte Richter, Anke Schiemann, Clemens Schöll, Theresa Schubert, Dagmar Schürrer, Liudmilla Siewerski, The Swan Collective, Ivonne Thein, Manuel Tozzi, Philipp Valenta, Tina Wilke and many more great international artists.

Curated by David Quiles Guilló (The Wrong) and Marie-Ange Brayer, Olivier Zeitoun (Centre Pompidou Paris).

WORLD OF NETWORKS @ CENTRE POMPIDOU PARIS
23.02. – 25.04.2022

Find more information and the full artist list here: https://www.centrepompidou.fr/…/calendar/event/6lEXdWo

and here: https://thewrong.tv/

I’m happy to present “Sound for Fungi. Homage to Indeterminacy” in a new version as a 4K video installation at Kapelica Gallery in Ljubljana, which enhances the immersive effect of fungi entanglements.

Futher I’m giving a talk for the opening: ‘Fungi in my studio – the networkological approach in practice’

MORE: https://kersnikova.org/en/posts/events/all/theresa-schubert-sound-for-fungi-homage-to-indeterminacy

The exhibition is part of the Creatures project (Creative Practices for Transformational Futures). The project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program.

Rebuilding Relationships with Fluvial Systems: Fluvial Systems as Indicators of Climate Change and its Impact hosted by Cittadellarte

Next year I will be working with a group of scientists in Northern Italy investigating fluvial systems as indicators of climate change, hosted by Cittadellarte/ Fondazione Pistoletto.

My first reason for choosing this residency was my immediate affinity with the representation of fluvial systems. Images of fluvial networks have a strong aesthetic resemblance to the microworlds and cellular structures that appear in my art such as slime molds or mycelial networks. Also, acting against climate change is very important to me. By combining novel technologies and biological methods, I would like to lay the grounds for positive transformation of current ecological challenges and our behaviour towards nature through creative strategies and aesthetic experiences.

Check out the other STARTS4Water challenges

Opening on September 02 and for the rest of the month my work “Sound for Fungi. Homage to Indeterminacy” will be part of CyberArts  at OK im OÖ Kulturquartier in Linz. The exhibition is a showcase for the Prix Ars Electronica winners, one of the most prestigious prizes in media art, since 1987.

Alongside the exhibition a catalogue will be published by Hatje Cantz. Order here.

I’m giving a talk this Friday about my artworks with fungi, the forest and the digital inbetween.

With her transdisciplinary works, artist Theresa Schubert manages to make the fine connective tissue between human / nature on the one hand and science / technology on the other visible and, above all, tangible. Often, organic materials such as slime moulds, fungi or bacteria are the starting point for an experimental exploration via practices of posthuman self-organisation or interspecies communication. In her lecture, she will present selected works from her bioart practice and her conceptual backgrounds.

Location: https://www.instagram.com/haunt_berlin/

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Tonight I’m givin an artist talk about my new work “inside an inside forest” still on view until Sunday night at Errant Sound, Rungestraße 20, Berlin.

20:30 Artist Talk with Annette Krebs, Theresa Schubert and Peter Strickmann, moderated by Janine Eisenächer

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The studio newsletter for March 2021 is out. Read more about news and updates spring 2021 here

I’m very excited about my first irl exhibtion this year touring Australia with my work “Sound for Fungi. Homage to Indeterminacy”
Read more about the exhibition Experimenta Life Forms here.

zwischen körpern — an exhibition in the format of a book published by K. Verlag

Excited to be sharing my ideas and work on biohacking and funig at this year’s CCC congress on Dec 30 at 2pm. Read more  > Live stream / Recording

A talk together with Margherita Pevere, Marco Donnarumma, Jurij Krpan (Kapelica Gallery) and Patricia McCormack at TTT conference. The panel is titled “Radical Vulnerabilities” and will take place at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and online.

Watch our panel live or after on Youtube. Program starts at 2h:32min:54​

Panel w/ Jonaie Lemercier, Matthew Plummer Fernandez, Samaneh Moafi from Forensic Architecture & myseslf

“Always Dead and Alive” shown @ Athens Digital Art Festival

Experience the results of my lab residency @TU Berlin via an interactive installation. Read more

Talking about the meat industry, viruses and my biotech cannibalism project ‘mEat me’. Link here

Regine Debatty interviewed me for WE MAKE MONEY NOT ART. Read here

Join me in Paris for the final presentation of my and other STARTS Residencies @ Centquatre. Link here

After over 1 year of preparations, I am thrilled to present my own lab-grown meat in a performance investigating ethics of meat, the materiality of our bodies and the potentials of biotechnolocigal reconstruction.

I’m presenting my new project in a panel about current issues regarding lab-grown meat. With Mojca Kumerdej, Dr. Ariana Barlič and Dr. Stephen Minger. www.kapelica.org

“Fishbowl: Wissenschaft. Kunst. Wissenschaftskommunikation – Perspektiven einer Dreiecksbeziehung” curated by Dr. Anett Holzheid, Dec 11 in Essen. more

A discussion alongside Prof. Vera Meyer, Christian de Lutz, and Alessandro Volpato about how science and art work together. Freatures work from my TU Berlin residency ‘Mind the Fungi’.

Join me and my colleagues from TU-AMM for a performative and scientific walk through a secret forest in Brandenburg -> registrations http://www.artlaboratory-berlin.org/

Giving a talk within the ‘Slow Algorithm‘-Panel during Ars Electronica Festival 2019.

Find me in Deep Space, at Postcity/ STARTS area or at the Art University Linz more

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On March 27-28 I will be in Paris giving an insight into my planned residency with the Poznan Supercomputing Centre. A great chance to see some interesting projects! >> Vertigo Residency

On view until March 28 at Kunstverein Arnsberg works from my series “somniferous observatory”.

curated by Spektrum Berlin and supported by Goethe-Institut I will be showing bacterial works at the Museum of Modern Art education center.

Opening on Nov. 28 at the Perm Museum of Contemporary Art in Russia alongside a 2-day conference: https://permm.ru/

In an exhibition focusing on Biodesign+art you can watch/hear “milieu 02” in a video screening curated by Helene Steiner during the London Design Week from 15.09.2018 on.

Would be happy to see you at my latest curatorial project between July 5-8 at Museum Kesselhaus in Berlin! www.morethanhuman.info

For the exhibition “Between Studio and Laboratory” I will be showing a new video “milieu 02” at the beautiful Museum Villa Rot between June 24- October 3 2018

Excited to be part of Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften with a special presentation @ Futurium, the new museum of the future in Berlin.

Looking forward to speak about art+science projects and present my recent book in Ljubljana.

I’m participating in the exhibition Sonic Vibrations: Alien Organs opening on March 2 at Spektrum.

Honored to be speaking at the opening of  GLUON, platform for art, science and technology

The group exhibition pilote : milieu is curated by Monique Wysterski at »CLB Berlin«

I’m participating at an interdisciplinary conference Nonhuman Agents in Art at Art Laboratory Berlin in a round table discussion.

group exhibition by the Bauhaus-University Weimar at the NKNU Art Center Kaohsiung supported by the Goethe-Institute.

Curated by Sally Golding as part of the Unconscious Archives Festival, Austrian Cultural Forum London.

Lula Criado and Meritxell Rosell interviewed me for their article “On Interspecies Creativity“, Interalia Iss. 36/ Sep 2017

Curated and commissioned by ArtLaboratory Berlin as part of their “Nonhuman Agents” series.

Invited speaker for the “Questioning Aesthetics Symposium: Art Research & Aesthetics” at La Virreina Centre de la Imatge in Barcelona. Talk on biomedia art practice and materialism theories.

In the video, ever changing networks of Fuligo Septico form poetic landscapes using the spatial logic and foreaging behaviour of this organism. Check it out at re:publica in the Maker Space.

I will be giving a talk and presentation of my artistic practise within an evening of experimental interactions between the San Francisco Art Institute & Bauhaus-Universität Weimar.
ACUD MACHT NEU, Veteranenstraße 21, 10119 Berlin

Berlinworksentoverbysuitcasekunstpräsentation curated by Joanna Mortreux
Opening 11.03. 2017  7pm  | exhibition from 12.03. – 26.03.2017, NTH. Gallery, Melbourne

I am looking forward to hold a workshop about artistic research with a focus on art+science with PhD students at Kunstuniversität Linz in March 2017

Growing Geometries just received an award as part of the  biennial exhibition Update_6/ NTAA 2016 organised by the Fondation Liedts-Meesen 🙂

Article and interview about my work published in CLOT, a magazine dedicated to Art explorations into Science and Technology.

Growing Geometries is nominated for the the New Technological Art Award, an international art competition of the Liedts-Meesen. The biennial exhibition Update_6/ NTAA 2016 will take place from Nov 05 – Dec 04, 2016 at Zebrastraat Ghent, Belgium.

Come and visit my video installation showing soon @ Retune Festival Berlin.

Extremely proud to be nominated for the prestigious GASAG Kunstpreis 2016 by Berlinische Galerie, congrats to the winner of the award Andreas Greiner.

Female sound practices since the 1990s, presentation at Sound:Gender:Feminism:Activism, University of the Arts London

presentation at Ars Electronica Festival Linz (AT)

I’m honored to be invited speaker for the Ars Electronia Archive at the international Symposium ‘Medialibraries and Archives for the 21st Century’ hosted at LABoral in Gijon (ES) on May 28-29 2010 next to Alex Adriansen and many more in discussion.