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MACHINE PARALYSIS: Explores disability, mobility, care, and alternative ways of experiencing movement, time, and space through stories from Greece and the Aegean.

ISLANDS OF EXILE: Explores the history of exile in Aegean islands, connecting stories of displacement, persecution, and resistance with contemporary struggles for hope and freedom.

ISLANDS AFTER TOURISM: Challenges the dominance of tourism in island life and imagines alternative ways of understanding, inhabiting, and caring for Mediterranean landscapes.

URBAN LAMENT: Explores collective mourning as a way to confront loss, injustice, and oppression while reclaiming grief and public space.

THE BEACH MACHINE: Examines the beach as an organized infrastructure of tourism, revealing how landscapes, bodies, and environments are controlled and transformed.

BODIES OF EXTRACTION: Explores the environmental, social, and political consequences of mining in the Aegean, focusing on land, labor, resources, and exploitation.

(FORCED) MOVEMENT: Explores migration around the Aegean Sea through personal stories, historical documents, and experiences of displacement, mobility, and belonging.

THE ARCHITECT IS ABSENT: Examines Cycladic architecture and the relationship between anonymous traditional building practices and architect Iannis Xenakis’s house on Amorgos.

THE SLEEPING HERMAPHRODITE: Explores gender fluidity through the ancient sculpture of the Sleeping Hermaphrodite and questions the historical construction of gender norms.

ARCHITECTURES OF HEALING: Explores spaces, practices, and rituals of healing, from ancient temples to modern care, focusing on sleep, touch, travel, and recovery from trauma.