art in the border
Art works/Exhibitions
Doors to the future
an audio-visual installation and workshop format co-created with people who live and work in Samos, Greece
Premiered at Skills Factory, Samos 14-15, February 2026
Past portals to future worlds
a participatory artwork co-created with 32 artists and researchers across the globe who live or work on borders.
Premiered as part of The 3rd Graz/Puerto Rico International Conference on Human Rights from an Inter-American Perspective 4-7 June 2026, University of Graz, Austria
publications
"Doors to the Future: How a Participatory Arts Project Is Creating More Humane Migration Futures," invited chapter for Other Stories and Counter-Mappings of Migration, Multilingual Matters, forthcoming 2027
Five Doors, Countless Futures, Elastic Borders Newsletter #7, July 2026
From research to resonance: extending Elastic Borders through the 'Hallway' Elastic Borders Newsletter #6, January 2026
Imagining possibilities for humanity and connection, Elastic Borders Newsletter #5, July 2025
Art in the border:radical imagination for dignity and compassion' Elastic Borders Newsletter #2, January 2024
Talks
2025 'Strange and Beautiful futures: Imagining migration with key border actors beyond narratives of securitization and division'
<rotor> contemporary gallery, Graz, Austria
2025 "Co-creating future imaginations of the border: artistic resistances in dehumanised migration landscapes"
Pushing Border Art's Borders Online lecture series, Université Grenoble Alpes, Universita di Genova June, 2025
The Mediterranean between Fantasy and Reality – Contrasting Worlds Conference , University of Graz November, 2025
2025 "The shape of home: a performative presentation of letters that resist the border as a line" (with Elena Marchevska)
Performing Space, Nafplio, Greece
2025 "Gentle rule breaking: Creative invitations for disrupting disconnect"
Society for Artistic Research 'Resonance' conference, Facilitation working group, Porto, Portugal
2025 "Slow, local, joyful building: identifying collaborative connection in contentious migration landscapes"
invited talk for Breaking bad…together: Navigating around disconnectivity and conflict in community art practices
Kate Hamburger Research Centre global dis:connect LMU Munich, Germany
2024 "Co-creating connection: Artistic resistances to the design of dehumanisation in current migration landscapes"
Invited talk for Radically Reimagining the Imagination? Aesthetic, empirical and theoretical conversations around a catch-all term,
Centre for Social Inequalities, Sciences Po, Paris France
2024, "Operationalising critical (self-)reflexivity: towards an anti-colonial manifesto for using creative methods in migration and border research" with Irene Guttiérez Torres and Silvia Niebla, IMISCOE Conference Lisbon, Portugal
2024, “Can art disrupt border-constructed social relationships? Exploring possibilities for dignity and compassion through image and poetry.”
AgoraAkademi Seminar in collaboration with Elastic Borders, The Border as Public Space at Columbia Global Paris Center, Paris
2024 "Repairing the cultural discourse in the UK: lived experience of migrant narratives in art practice" (with Elena Marchevska)
Human Mobility and Migration, Rijksuniversitaet, Groningen
2024 "Breaking the walls of border dehumanisation," Falling Walls Lab Marie Sklowdowska-Curie Actions 3 minute competition, Brussels, Belgium
workshops
BUILDING FUTURE WORLDS: Speculative design for more humane futures,
Samos, Greece January 18; May 24-25; Tenerife August 4, 2025
These workshops with NGO workers, lawyers, educators, asylum seekers, artists and refugee camp workers explore how to create more humane, empathic and connected futures in the context of border and migration practice and policies through creative exercises, art-making activities and dialogue in small and larger groups.
CREATIVE RESEARCH METHODOLOGIES: USE OF GAME, IMAGE AND POETRY
Guest lecturer for Professor Libora Oates-Indruchova’s 'Methodological innovations in gender research' class, University of Graz 2025
WHAT THE TREES REMEMBER: exploring nature as a portal to future islands of dignified coexistence
Islands of Memory Conference, Pharos Institute Hvar, Croatia June 8-10, 2024 in collaboration with Dr Elena Marchevska (London Southbank University)
Two creative workshops with scholars and secondary school students that explored migration through the lens of trees both indigenous and migratory to two islands deeply impacted by migration: Samos, Greece and Vis, Croatia. Through abstract drawing and deep listening exercises, both groups discussed how islands have a way of forgetting their own migratory pasts, and whether their trees might offer a way of remembering.
CREATIVE METHODS RELATED TO FEMINIST REFUGEE EPISTEMOLOGIES
Guest lecturer for Professor Bilgin Ayata’s 'Gender, Displacement and Border' class, University of Graz 2024