Shannon Turner

Shannon Turner is an artist-researcher based in Berlin. Their work inhabits unruly disciplinary margins, moving somewhere between posthuman autoethnography and prefigurative spellcasting - enacted through ritual and expanded performance, and social and spatial interventions.

Emerging from a visual anthropology background, their practice unfolds in embodied and immersive research, collaborative engagements, and participatory processes. Their long-term collective project Swamp Song navigates grief, abjection and precarity through ecological attunement and the queer mythopoetics of wetlands.

Their overarching interest in community-building and collective strategy is ongoingly sustained through orgsanising work, cooperative spaces and communal support networks, and in co-producing festivals and events. More recently, they’ve focused on grief-tending practices as part of trio Nightwashers, and training in community grief facilitation.