Public art and performance; social landscapes; the politics of race and visual culture
Artforum International, Interview with Mary Miss, May 2019, https://www.artforum.com/contributor/kris-timken
The New Explorers: Making Meaning in the 21st Century Landscape, Conveyance Press, 2015
"Environmental Aesthetics, Performance, and Rural Space: A Maidu 'Calling Back the Salmon Ceremony,"" Americanist Symposium, Yale University, New Haven, Conn, 2017
"The Unmonumental and Indeterminate: The New Commons of the Anthropocene," Davies Forum, College of Art and Sciences: University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, 2016
“The Politics of Rural Geography: Practicing Place” Association of American Geographers, New York City, NY, 2012
“Contemporary Environmental Aesthetics and Political Practice,” British Association for American Studies Conference, Birmingham, England, 2011
“Re-Thinking the Humanities and Social Sciences: The Zone and Zones—Radical Spatiality in our Times,” Zadar, Croatia, 2011
“Performing Landscapes: The Politics of Possibility,” Visual and Critical Studies Symposium, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA, 2011
“Embodied/Embedded: Interrogating Gender and Race In the American Western Wilderness Imaginary,” Identities Symposium, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA ,2010
2017
Arts Dean's Fund for Excellence
Visual and Media Cultures Colloquia Coordinator, 2017-2018
2016
Porter College Travel/Research Grant, University of California, Santa Cruz
2011
Humanities Center: Artist and Scholar in Residence Chappell, Lougee Scholars Program Artist + Scholar in Residence, Humanities Center, Stanford, CA
2010
For-Site Foundation, Nevada City, CA
Bergsjön Public 2, Gothenburg, Sweden