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Investigating the intersections of IDentities, languages, and spaces.
Tears and laughter
Borders are not neutral—they are colonial technologies of control, shaping language as a tool of separation, identity as a regime of fixity, and belonging as a conditional privilege. Against this, identity is not a stable essence, but emerges relationally—through movement, memory, care, and acts of refusal.
As a white European male, my artistic practice acknowledges its implication in colonial genealogies. It seeks to be accountable by co-creating relational grammars—modes of expression rooted in interdependence, radical imagination, and solidarities that honor difference without seeking to resolve it into sameness.
Through critical futures thinking, I explore alternative temporalities shaped by migration and memory—foregrounding refusal as a generative act. In the friction between image and meaning, new forms of coexistence surface—less as representations, more as invitations to engage ethically across asymmetry.
Embracing futures literacy not as a method but as a commitment, I disrupt linear scripts and foster pluriversal imaginaries. Each work becomes a rehearsal in anticipatory responsibility, deep listening, and radical reciprocity—not shaping ‘the future,’ but cultivating the relations that make futures otherwise possible.
Tuning Beyond Borders
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Art is never neutral—it reverberates with power, amplifying solidarity or reinforcing exclusion. My practice attunes to these vibrations, asking: whose voices are amplified, and whose are silenced into erasure? I work with the unruly tones that resist assimilation, invoking futures beyond dominant grammars and toward spaces of relational refusal.
Raised within a Czech-German postwar heritage, I carry an inherited burden of memory—entangled with displacement, silence, and complicity. Through archival and counter-archival methods, I listen with and learn from communities whose lived histories disrupt dominant memory cultures and unsettle Europe’s colonial residues.
Here, future literacies emerge in the refusal of imposed coherence: navigating ambiguity not as lack, but as a generative terrain. Rejecting the closure of monolingual clarity, I embrace polyphony—plural, contested, and co-created. Language becomes not a border, but a shared ecology of relation, shaped through care, friction, and mutual becoming.
To dwell in unruly frequencies is to practice a literacy of transformation—where identitie are not a fixed state but a tuning into possibility, and where listening itself becomes an act of political imagination.
As the poet Édouard Glissant reminds his readers, the “legitimacy of filiation” is not merely a metaphor of descent but the foundational violence of european history: a mechanism through which colonial modernity silences relation, masks entanglement, and reduces becoming to bloodline.
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