Peter Kærgaard Andersen (b. 1988) joins the Department of Anthropology as a Postdoctoral Researcher on the ‘North Atlantic Everyday Stories’ project, led by PI Christian Vium. His research will involve fieldwork in the Westfjords, particularly around Ísafjörður, Iceland, focusing on vernacular stories and local archives, culminating in a series of exhibitions.

Peter is an interdisciplinary researcher whose work blends artistic practice, participatory and socially engaged methodologies with thinking across post- and environmental humanities. Often drawing on situated and concrete encounters with communities, landscapes and archives, his research relates aesthetic and poetic experimentation to topics such as place, belonging, memory, time, technology and mobility. Using a range of new media apparatuses, including filmmaking, textiles, and photography, his work merges human and more-than-human perspectives. 

He holds a PhD in Digital Humanities from the University of Genova (2022). Recently, he has been an artist-in-residence in the EU S+T+ARTS initiative, MUSAE (2023-2024), where he explored collaborations between art, science, and technology within the food sector. Peter has also lately served as a fellow in project ARTéCHO (2023-2024) and as an artist-in-residence at Art Center Rønnebæksholm as part of the ‘Communities in the Garden’ project. His work has been widely exhibited and screened at numerous cultural and research institutions.

Contact: 
Peter Kærgaard Andersen
School of Culture and Society
Moesgård Allé 20
8270 Højbjerg
kaergaard.peter@cas.au.dk