WILKERSON
American guerilla gardener turned guerilla filmmaker and visual artist, Erin Wilkerson, is the co-founder of the political art collective and production company, Creative Agitation along with her partner, Travis Wilkerson. They have exhibited in the Venice Biennale, Locarno Film Festival, the Viennale, and the Berlinale, and their film, Nuclear Family (2021) was awarded Mencion Especial at the Mar del Plata International Film Festival, screened in 20+ festivals, and is distributed by Arsenal (Berlin). Grounded in ecology thanks to her early professional work in landscape architecture, her solo practice is rooted in the exploration of global narratives. Her international exhibitions include, The Second Burial (2023), which streamed on MUBI Latin America. She has also exhibited at Prismatic Ground (New York), FICUNAM (Mexico), Arica Docs (Chile), and INTERSECCION (Spain). After receiving a PhD in Research and Practice from Liverpool John Moores University, in partnership with the TransArt Institute, comprised of an intensive theoretical study of "Invasive Species" as a study of feral filmmaking as decolonial practice, and an accompanying speculative fiction film, "Strange Flower (little sister to the poor)" about a witch navigating colonial history on the border of Europe with the east, she was awarded Global Fellow at Duke Kunshan University.