Cultural Practice

My cultural practice is grounded in collective action. It develops and supports community-focused socio-political initiatives, participatory processes, and living archives as shared infrastructures that function as tools for organising, advocacy, and accountability.

My work moves from conceptual development through to artistic direction, centering collective knowledge-making across long-term initiatives. This includes curation, the development of participatory games and archival platforms, and the realisation of exhibitions and outdoor interventions.

The practice focuses on building frameworks for collaboration, shaping public-facing formats, and holding space for complex narratives to unfold over time.

Listening to the Land

The project unfolds as a medium for conveying narratives of resistance and a regenerative future across borders and oceans.

rongin shagor

will you remember to keep us afloat?
A participatory archival platform, creating a transnational dialogue through language, heritage, and poetics, with the ocean as a carrier of memories.

ma umi

Collaborative research residency with coastal communities in Ishigaki, Japan, exploring regenerative agriculture and socio-ecological practices.

Sea Behind The Wall

Immersive outdoor participatory journey combining intergenerational and indigenous practices through decolonial discourse, workshops, screenings, and street interventions along the Spree in Berlin.

may ayim:dichterin.1996

An exhibition of Akinbiyi Akinbode’s personal archive reflecting documentation, mourning, and the enduring resonance of May Ayim’s work, foregrounding erased and subaltern narratives.

Embodied Temporalities on Tour

Tracing narratives across Europe

A six-month transnational exchange engaging communities through residencies, conversations, and localized performances across the UK, the Czech Republic, and Greece, grounded in caring, and trauma-informed cultural practices, and facilitating sustained dialogue with local, diasporic, and migrant communities.

Escapism

Affective Archvives of Resistance

Interactive games developed to engage in critical reflection on social, cultural, and political structures, using play to interrogate power.

Embodied Temporalities

What memories do our bodies hold? What can our bodies tell us about ourselves, our pasts, and our futures?

Research, archiving, exhibition, and performance project exploring diasporic, decolonial, and queer perspectives on identity, belonging, and embodied memory.

Cartographies of Affect

A ten-day festival mapping queer histories and contemporary resistance across cultures, centering trans, queer, and non-binary practices and indigenous ritual knowledge.

Embodied Arts Festival

A hybrid art festival culminating eight months of research, archiving, exhibition, and performance, bringing together forty curators, artists, and cultural practitioners to explore identity, belonging, and embodied memory through diasporic, decolonial, and queer perspectives.