Melanie Garland is a Berlin-based artist, heritage restorer and recently completed her PhD at Humboldt University’s institute of European Ethnology and Anthropology. Her research interests lie in migration and postcolonial studies, critical-feminist geography, and decolonial practices through artistic-ethnographic methods. She is particularly drawn to the intersection of art and anthropology, engaging with object-based installations, sound art, and performative and curatorial processes rooted in feminist ethics of care. Melanie’s artistic-anthropological and museografic-curatorial approaches focuses on collaborative and transacademic exhibitions and public interventions, exploring how multisensory and collaborative practices can move beyond the violence inherent in traditional ethnographic display methods. Recently, she has also become interested in multispecies studies, examining the sonic dimensions of oceans and seas through the lens of archipelagic thinking, postcolonial oceans and seascape epistemology.