BIO

Melanie Garland is a Berlin-based artist, heritage restorer, recently completed a PhD at Humboldt University’s institute of European Ethnology and Anthropology. Her research topics are migration, art of resistance, postcolonial studies, and decolonial practices through artistic and ethnographic methods. Since 2010, she is interested in the relationship between art, heritage, migration an anthropology, working with artistic practices such as installation, sonority participatory art, art action, and performative process. Currently, all her artistic work is focused on her PhD project, where she researches how to engage multisensoral and collaborative practices to expand beyond the violence of ethnographic display traditions.