From October 2017 to July 2018 Svendsen worked as an early career fellow at Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH), moving to Lent Term in 2018.
Svensden is currently working on an installation entitled WE KNOW NOT WHAT WE MAY BE which appeared at the Barbican in September 2018 as part of its Art of Change season.
[7] The project explored global consumerism using the premise of the textile industry to illustrate the complex problems created by consumer demand.
This work was written and performed in 2010/2011 in several sites around the UK, including Edinburgh, Newcastle, Norwich, Ipswich and Greenwich.
Svendsen set the scene in 2033, a small audience is invited into a converted orange shipping container where they assume the role of emergency planners.