Artspace Aotearoa / Rūma Pānui | Reading Room

Annotated text: Anoushka Coulter, The Soul at Work

As part of the New Commissions Writers programme for 2026, each writer will publish an annotated text drawn from a larger reader the group has been close-reading as part of the year-long programme.

Writer Anoushka Coutler has selected and annotated the text The Soul at Work by Franco "Bifo" Berardi, 2009.

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Anoushka Coulter is currently completing her honours year at Whitecliffe College of Art and Design. Being both a writer and a painter, the two disciplines are locally informed. Her paintings depict the cityscape of Tāmaki Makaurau and her writing for Art New Zealand and ArtNews feature contemporary exhibitions. Her specific interest is the theory of Hauntology and ideas of futurism, influenced by writers such as Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi, Mark Fisher and Jaques Derrida.

Related to the exhibition: Group Admits Mistake
Published April 2026