Neimanis is a Key Researcher with the Sydney Environment Institute and a lecturer at University of Sydney and the author of Bodies of Water: Posthuman Feminist Phenomenology. Her research interests include posthuman feminisms, experimental writing methods, nature/culture, water, climate change, environmental humanities, environmental justice, embodiment, (bio)coloniality, biotechnologies and feminist STS. She is particularly interested in the common and queer intersections of these things.

The event is part of "The Wild Living Marine Resources Belong to Society as a Whole" which is a series of interdisciplinary events at Kunstnernes Hus, under the direction of Geir Tore Holm, Søssa Jørgensen and Randi Nygård. The program is named after section 2 of the Norwegian Marine Resources Act and is part of the international project Ensayos.