Saskia Abrahms-Kavunenko.
Saskia Abrahms-Kavunenko is an anthropologist and the author of Enlightenment and the Gasping City. Her work is situated at intersections between environmental changes and cultural praxis, in multi-scalar and trans-species contexts. She has carried out extensive research on Buddhism and other religious traditions in Australia, Mongolia, and India, particularly as they relate to uncertainty, pollution, and the more-than-human world. She is currently a Senior Fellow at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies. Her current research project ‘Always Already Entwined/ Impure: Buddhist Plastics and Praxis in Oceania’ look at how Buddhists see themselves in relation to the technologies and economies that plastics have co-produced.
Shultz Abrahms-Kavunenko
Shultz Abrahms-Kavunenko, a writer, artist, dancer, musician, anthropological offsider and companionable being, is enamoured of complexity, beauty and learning. His activities range through analysis, practice, improvisation and play – from which shifting ground, he hopes, with luck and perseverance actuality might be felt to resound. He has a BA from the University of Melbourne, has undertaken miscellaneous further studies and conducts independent research projects. He has published two novel length works of strange and elaborate fiction. On Extremity and Eternity: The Continuing Adventures of Mr K and Charles, and, more recently Shaping, the Vessel, which concerns itself with memory and the meantime. He explores pattern recognition and the birth of signification in his Accretion series of drawings, and a longing for more-than-human sociality in his ongoing portraits. He is also a percussionist, dancer and neurological navigator, was drummer and lead dancer for some years in art rock band Aleks and the Ramps, and has an ongoing fascination with movement, affect, and the interrelations of ecology, body and mind.
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