Cultural Practice

Anchored in collective action and knowledge-building along the shared path of social and environmental justice, my cultural practice comes alive through community-focused socio-political initiatives. In creating and holding space for complex narratives to unfold, living archives emerge as shared infrastructures of care, functioning as tools for advocacy and accountability.

My role flows from conceptual development to artistic direction, where transdisciplinary research, curation, participatory games, archival platforms, exhibitions, outdoor interventions, and community gatherings intertwine.

Process transforms into form, form dissolves back into process, and knowledge emerges through collective creation.

Listening to the Land

A climate justice initiative carrying narratives of resistance and regenerative futures 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.

Electric Lies

An ongoing five-year inquiry through art and activism, tracing the “green shift” in energy production and the climate injustices hidden within sustainability narratives that displace Indigenous worlds.

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.