Researchers

MayDay Rooms, UK

Fani is an educator, theatre practitioner and activist. For the past eight years she has been working in the cultural heritage sector, co-running MayDay Rooms, a radical history archive, and setting up the East End Women’s Museum in London. Alongside her archival and museum work, ie building collections, programming events, talks, exhibitions, and publications to promote their activation, she has been involved in designing and delivering political education projects, researching the convergence of oral history, the paper archive and education. She is currently looking into archival and historical dissemination practices in the public space, mainly using oral history and verbatim theatre.

https://maydayrooms.org/

Secondment destination
National Technical University of Athens, Greece, September 2022

SIRIUS, Ireland

Georgia Perkins is a Curatorial Fellow at SIRIUS, Cobh, County Cork, Ireland. Georgia has worked on numerous exhibitions and events with artists and writers such as Daniela Ortiz, Chila Kumari Burman, Shen Xin, Marie Brett, Anton Vidokle, Gregory Sholette, Amanda Rice, and The White Pube. During the SPACEX-Rise project, she investigates polluted aquatic ecologies in the currents of late capitalism. This research draws from the geographical context of the Cobh port area, where SIRIUS is situated, and her doctoral research into molecularity, indeterminacy and the sensible. She is also a tutor and doctoral candidate at Goldsmiths University of London and a visiting lecturer at Winchester School of Art. She has three book chapters to be published by Routledge and Sternberg Press in 2023 and 2024. 

http://www.siriusartscentre.ie

Secondment destinations
Royal College of Art, London UK, August – November 2022
Coventry University, UK, January – March 2023
University of Northampton, UK, October – November 2023

National Technical University of Athens, Greece

Kallia Fysaraki is a PhD candidate and teaching assistant at the School of Architecture of the National Technical University of Athens. She graduated from the Department of Architectural Engineering at the University of Patras and holds a master’s degree from the Postgraduate Program Research in Architecture: Architectural Design – Space – Culture of the NTUA. Since 2010, she has been a co-founding member of cultural groups and research collectives, such as Pismones Chori (transl. stubborn spaces/espaços teimosos), Revisiting On the Commons part of the Laboratory for the Urban Commons (LUC), etc., where she co-initiated self-learning processes, public interventions and actions towards space-commoning. Her doctoral research focuses on photography as a practice of habitation of the public space, exploring published amateur photographs from the example of the Occupied Squares movement of 2011-2013.

Secondment destination
CASCO, September 2023

Home for Cooperation, Cyprus

Hayriye is the Program Planning & Communications Officer of the Home for Cooperation. She holds a BA in Political Science and International Relations from Boğaziçi University/Istanbul and a MSc in Communication Science from the University of Amsterdam, with a focus on Political Communication. Her thesis was a case study of Cyprus, where she conducted a comparative content analysis on the framing of municipal and parliamentary election campaign periods, testing the “personalization of politics” argument.  Although she is not currently continuing in academia, moving onwards, Hayriye is particularly interested to explore the potential of art as a political tool in creating a space for expressing alternative narratives, and the ways it can be utilized for campaigning by different political actors.  

www.home4cooperation.info

University of Modena and Reggio Emilia

After a degree in cinema studies at Paris I University (Panthéon-Sorbonne), a master’s degree in applied literature with a specialisation in screenwriting at Paris IV University (Paris-Sorbonne) and a training for cameramen at École des Gobelins, she worked as a screenwriter (Sélenium Films, Atelier Farnèse) and audiovisual editor. She was a research fellow at the University of Siena (DISPOC), where she worked on the design of a digital storytelling platform for the National Diary Archive (Pieve Santo Stefano, AR), and at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (DSLC), where she worked on the development of the LAMA Laboratory (Audiovisual Materials Laboratory), dedicated to transmedia narratives applied to research. She is currently a PhD student at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. Her research project focuses on the audiovisual device as a tool for analysing the social and for the production of new sociality, and in particular as a support for self-narratives and interactions produced by migrant subjects.

http://dslc.unimore.it

Secondment destination:
Project Arts Centre
June 2024

Casco Art Institute: Working for the Commons, The Netherlands

Aline Hernandez is a curator working at Casco Art Institute: Working for the Commons in Utrecht, the Netherlands. Currently, she is conducting a SGSAH-funded PhD which explores issues around performance and performativity in archives and counter-archives of (trans)gender violence in Mexico at St Andrews University, Scotland. Hernández holds an M.A. in Media, Art, and Performance Studies from Utrecht University with a specialization in Gender Studies. She is a member of the artist/activist-run cooperative Cráter Invertido and of the trans-local ecosystem Arts Collaboratory.

https://casco.art/

Secondment destination:
TBC