Erin Wilkerson is an American artist dedicated to investigating wastelandscapes, invasive species, and borderlands; finishing a body of multimedia work on extraction landscapes. In addition to her internationally exhibited film and multimedia work, she is co-founder of Creative Agitation, along with Travis Wilkerson. She seeks to create work that acts like a bomb for change, marrying politics and aesthetics. “Nuclear Family”, a documentary on the haunted landscapes of nuclear missile silos of the American West, is premiering at the 2022 Berlinale. Filmed over a transcontinental road-trip, that project has altered her practice indefinitely. Their hybrid documentary noir film, “Machine Gun or Typewriter”, premiered at Locarno. Their “100 Year Old Newsreel” was featured in the Slovenian Pavilion of the Venice Biennale.

She is the managing editor of NOW Journal, curating urgent praxis to intervene on injustice via interjecting both film and visual art into political discourse.

Since moving to the former British colony and spice island of Singapore, in 2020, she began “Invasive Species”, to tackle early colonialism and globalization, as refuge for institutionalized injustice. Physicist Karan Barad writes that every radiated cell is now the ghost of war. Wilkerson’s work aims to give voice to these ghosts.