Over the past few weeks, partly due to my move from Greece, I have taken time and distance from the project (although I gathered some first reflections when I was in Lesvos).The video\film is not finished, although the screening and the feedbacks of the participants...
5: Summer Course 2022
Supervision 1: Project development
Right now, I feel that a sharpening of my work for the exam could to present these pictures that I drew in Lesvos, and not necesseraly make anything new. I am considering ways of maybe mixing the paintings I made with the pictures I took, in a digital way. I'm...
Revisiting Field | Notes
I have been thinking a lot about my project and the way I want to present it... I don't have much time, but I want to revisit the project and refine it. I think most parts of it are completed -considering the limitations on my editing skills. I would also like to...
Net-work: project development
Project development: Net-work The last two weeks in Norway have been hectic and turbulent, so I have unfortunately not thought too much about the project. However, I was lucky that I got to take some notes on my reflections the last days at Metochi. In my text I want...
Module 3 – Memories from the past
I have a memory of Life Jackets from my time in "videregående" (high school). I had a course called “Art, Design and Architecture” (translated) where we talked about art happening right now and taking inspiration or giving it thoughts so we would reflect on its...
Module three – What does Lesvos mean to the Greeks?
I came to Lesvos in 2016, one year after the beginning of the so-called “refugee crisis”. Until then, I could not even point Lesvos on a map. Until I was 17-18 years old, I actually thought that this island was Chios. I knew its shape and location, but thought it was...
Carrying our homes
My relationship with Lesvos began almost simultaneously with the "refugee crisis". In 2016, I was already living in Syros, working as a teacher, but I was going very often to Athens to meet my then boyfriend. There we met at the port of Piraeus at E1 and the stone...
Dare to be vulnerable
When I walk out my door, I don’t see signs of crisis. Nature seems to be thriving and my neighbors seem to be happy. I am dependent on others to gain more insight and information about the world. My neighbors share amazingly delicious food and heartbreaking stories....
Module 3 – Challenging narrative and representation
During my master's thesis, on artistic creation related to migration, I dealt with migration-related themes and especially the imaginary conveyed by migration-related narratives. My focus shifted in particular from a construction of the self within institutional...
Traveling library – please expand
This is a 'traveling library' intended to be a place where many different useful (but not mandatory) references are collected; texts, artworks, films etc. Please expand and subsume your inputs under a theme (and create one if you wish)Theme 1: Literature that...