https://melaniegarland.com MELANIE GARLAND Sat, 30 May 2026 07:01:28 +0000 https://melaniegarland.com en https://melaniegarland.com/MARITIME-DEEP-RESONANCES Sat, 30 May 2026 07:01:28 +0000 MELANIE GARLAND https://melaniegarland.com/MARITIME-DEEP-RESONANCES MARITIME DEEP RESONANCES Soundwalk performance By Melanie Garland and Melcher Ruhkopf <img width="2236" height="1486" width_o="2236" height_o="1486" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c4f0ee03d99cbb9b8194f79dedf0342dd1dbefbcd000494ee0ceb134d27a6274/Screenshot-2026-08-01-at-9.56.19PM.png" data-mid="250897176" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c4f0ee03d99cbb9b8194f79dedf0342dd1dbefbcd000494ee0ceb134d27a6274/Screenshot-2026-08-01-at-9.56.19PM.png" /> <img width="2242" height="1502" width_o="2242" height_o="1502" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/937e446911f1613086bb45b415e8bd2b64491a63051997669e5f6e50533291ff/Screenshot-2026-08-01-at-9.54.14PM.png" data-mid="250897180" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/937e446911f1613086bb45b415e8bd2b64491a63051997669e5f6e50533291ff/Screenshot-2026-08-01-at-9.54.14PM.png" /> <img width="2244" height="1492" width_o="2244" height_o="1492" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cde7c81581db13ca0c39eb4a9c62f81520b0cd0834e344a6d5cdbba2d724ca20/Screenshot-2026-08-01-at-9.55.33PM.png" data-mid="250897178" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cde7c81581db13ca0c39eb4a9c62f81520b0cd0834e344a6d5cdbba2d724ca20/Screenshot-2026-08-01-at-9.55.33PM.png" /> <img width="2242" height="1492" width_o="2242" height_o="1492" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/527623400031c8d7dfb5e138c31dca6dcbb24e1076c54775432e3a51302ffda9/Screenshot-2026-08-01-at-9.54.31PM.png" data-mid="250897179" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/527623400031c8d7dfb5e138c31dca6dcbb24e1076c54775432e3a51302ffda9/Screenshot-2026-08-01-at-9.54.31PM.png" /> The performative sonic walk “Maritime Deep Resonances,” on July 12th at the Hafen Museum in Hamburg, brought the Atacama Desert aboard the historic Peking. Participants journeyed through the ship’s complex and sometimes uncomfortable histories, tracing early 20th-century connections between its saltpeter mineral cargoes from the Atacama Desert to Hamburg, where the mineral was processed into fertilizer and explosives. Drawing a parallel to the present, the performance also explored contemporary lithium extraction in the same landscape. Through deep listening, storytelling, and movement, “Maritime Deep Resonances” highlighted the Atacama as a witness to cycles of transformation and the exhaustion of its landscape. Listening to human and more-than-human voices—birds, winds, minerals—participants were invited to reflect on the ship’s role in maritime connectivity and resource extraction, and on the possibilities for care and renewal across oceans, deserts, and generations. “Maritime Deep Resonances” transformed the Peking into a resonant and dissonant space for collective listening and reimagination, bridging past and present, and inviting new forms of connection through the echoes of the Atacama.<img width="2002" height="1498" width_o="2002" height_o="1498" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cd45715ea29a71cac870f4f6b7beead38114262e754438e1aa8337381a012427/Screenshot-2026-08-01-at-9.53.51PM.png" data-mid="250897181" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cd45715ea29a71cac870f4f6b7beead38114262e754438e1aa8337381a012427/Screenshot-2026-08-01-at-9.53.51PM.png" /><img width="2250" height="1502" width_o="2250" height_o="1502" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5df8ee1ad99b5c4bf257de7d3bfd6c5c106914ce97484aa6ca6adc365b202978/Screenshot-2026-08-01-at-9.53.36PM.png" data-mid="250897182" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5df8ee1ad99b5c4bf257de7d3bfd6c5c106914ce97484aa6ca6adc365b202978/Screenshot-2026-08-01-at-9.53.36PM.png" />Credits / Acknowledgements Concept and Text Melanie Garland &amp; Melcher Ruhkopf Performance Melanie Garland &amp; Melcher Ruhkopf Sound Composition, Field Recordings, Graphic Design Melanie Garland German Translation and Editing Melcher Ruhkopf Documentation Saray Purto (photography) Alina Masoomi (video) Bastian Manteuffel (audio) Production Melanie Garland &amp; Melcher Ruhkopf Phoenix Festival German Port Museum Printing funded by Humboldt University of Berlin Acknowledgements Special thanks to the Atacama community, Einhornkollektiv UG, Ursula Richenberger, Hamburg von der Rolle, Alfred Toepfer Stiftung, Freunde der Viermastbark Peking e.V., and all more-than-human collaborators: Peking, saltpeter, desert, ocean, wind, birds, and underwater life. Research This project is based on the postdoctoral research of Melanie Garland and the doctoral research of Melcher Ruhkopf. © 2026 Melanie Garland &amp; Melcher Ruhkopf https://melaniegarland.com/WATER-NARRATIVES-CHILOE Tue, 18 Feb 2025 14:25:24 +0000 MELANIE GARLAND https://melaniegarland.com/WATER-NARRATIVES-CHILOE WATER NARRATIVES Field trip Chiloé-Chile February 2025 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; X Excerpt from the paper Water Narratives: Islands as Spaces of Possibility (Garland, 2025), published in Journeys Ocean Archive, “OCEAN / UNI's bárawa. Read HERE (in ES and EN) Chiloé's Consciousness In February 2025, my sister, biologist Rosemary Garland, and I traveled to Chiloé for a residency at the Chiloé Museum of Modern Art (MAM). We wanted to explore the long-term effects of one of Chile's worst socio-ecological crises. In 2016, a toxic red tide, exacerbated by decomposing farmed salmon (Armijo, 2020), devastated Chiloé’s coast, exposing its vulnerability to industrial exploitation. This disaster is part of a broader history of colonialism, extractivism, and ongoing coloniality. Since Spanish colonization, Chiloé’s ecosystems and indigenous communities have suffered from external economic interests. Today, the multinational-controlled salmon industry perpetuates colonial structures, commodifying land and sea under capitalist extraction. <img width="2711" height="3615" width_o="2711" height_o="3615" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b07a7bdb42a4e73575589ea907d0b3138ab61bfd9678ea0fa1896cc4fd11a46e/PHOTO-2025-02-01-19-14-26.jpg" data-mid="226782253" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b07a7bdb42a4e73575589ea907d0b3138ab61bfd9678ea0fa1896cc4fd11a46e/PHOTO-2025-02-01-19-14-26.jpg" /> Following the 2016 catastrophe, local movements emerged to raise awareness and conscience of the salmon industry’s damage. The crisis exposed the overpopulation of escaped farmed salmon and Chiloé's collapsing marine ecosystem. The industry's expansion, first led by Norwegian companies and now dominated by Japanese-Chinese corporations, is part of a larger extractivist network. Integrated into Chile’s economic model as “progress,” these industries reinforce economic dependence and environmental degradation. Viewing Chiloé through archipelagic thinking (Glissant, 1997) situates the crisis within postcolonial frameworks, highlighting how colonial legacies persist. It also underscores human and nonhuman struggles, resistances, and adaptation within ecosystems. <img width="2066" height="1558" width_o="2066" height_o="1558" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/78a0581b46bd4c69f7703132a87372b716f05c1bf26c046c5c8653ba5fac99ee/Screenshot-2025-04-09-at-5.07.52PM.png" data-mid="229557835" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/78a0581b46bd4c69f7703132a87372b716f05c1bf26c046c5c8653ba5fac99ee/Screenshot-2025-04-09-at-5.07.52PM.png" /> Listening to the South Pacific Ocean&nbsp;To explore the 2016 disaster's traces, my sister and I recorded Chiloé’s underwater sounds. Walking along its coast, we searched for a spot to use a contact hydrophone, capturing vibrations through materials in water. The Chilote rocks became our connection point.&nbsp;As sound artist Leonel Vasquez calls them, <img width="480" height="480" width_o="480" height_o="480" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6953524e58a0d7f2c16e88c2749e522e72b332fd1c3fa8ffedc0795b6114f033/Garland_3.jpeg" data-mid="229558226" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/480/i/6953524e58a0d7f2c16e88c2749e522e72b332fd1c3fa8ffedc0795b6114f033/Garland_3.jpeg" />Castro, Chiloé 2025 ©Rosemary Garland Canto de las Abuelas&nbsp; (Grandmothers' song), the rocks hold ancestral sonic knowledge and the layered histories of a changing archipelago. We listened as they conversed with the ocean, but the sound was often interrupted by vibrations of the distant hum of merchant ships—a constant presence in Chiloé’s waterscape. Could this be the sound underwater wildlife hear? Has noise pollution become their norm? To delve deeper into these water sounds, we listened to Catálogo de Olas, a sonic archive by chilean sound artist Fernando Godoy, capturing human and nonhuman struggle narratives of Chiloé 's 2016 ecological fragility. The analog texture deepened our experience, allowing us to feel the recurring narratives of the Pacific’s "slow death," which locals described as "bleeding" during the 2016 red tide disaster. <img width="1280" height="1280" width_o="1280" height_o="1280" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a0301d397f2d0f78d4c4b983462744a04e708667d28c18732f426e1ad225e96c/photo_2025-04-09-17.11.19.jpeg" data-mid="229558198" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a0301d397f2d0f78d4c4b983462744a04e708667d28c18732f426e1ad225e96c/photo_2025-04-09-17.11.19.jpeg" /> After these deep listening exercises (Oliveros, 2005), we asked: What is an archipelago and what is their conscience? These questions guided our poetic sonority contribution, exploring ecological and sonority dimensions. Ecologically, an archipelago is a group of islands separated from the continent, creating isolation that leads to biological speciation—species evolving independently with distinct genetic differences (Garland, R., 2025). But the concept extends beyond biology into philosophical and spatial realms. The poet Eduard Glissant describes archipelagos as “a space of diffraction,” where diversity fosters relations in harmony with the world. This idea applies to urban space, where urban archipelago helps us understand Chiloé’s fragmented yet connected landscape. The damage caused by salmon farming further reinforces this fragmentation, yet it uncovers the growing consciousness of a changing archipelago, one that embraces an eco-social justice movement advocating for the rights of nature. Thinking through an archipelago lens helps us reconsider Chiloé not just as an isolated region suffering environmental harm, but as a dynamic space shaped by shifting relationships. It offers a way to challenge the idea of separation—between land and sea, urban and rural—emphasizing instead how these elements are interconnected, fostering a more-than-human consciousness. https://melaniegarland.com/ANARCHIVING-OCEAN Wed, 23 Apr 2025 10:42:54 +0000 MELANIE GARLAND https://melaniegarland.com/ANARCHIVING-OCEAN ANARCHIVING OCEAN MARGINSRedefining Maritime Museum Narratives This research project was selected for the Global Connectivity in Maritime Perspective Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Deutsches Schifffahrtsmuseum and the Leibniz Institute for Maritime History (DSM) in Bremerhaven. The fellowship took place between August and November 2025. Afterlife project, such as talks, articles, and an audio museum guided walk, soon! In alignment with the fellowship theme, Global Connectivity in Maritime Perspective, this project seeks to enrich international dialogues on maritime heritage. Focusing on the relationships between Germany, South America and the sea,&nbsp; DSM’s diverse collection offers a valuable resource for this inquiry. By investigating the provenance, layered meanings, and global significance of its artifacts, the project will address colonial and ecological dimensions while foregrounding silenced narratives. This work will reimagine the collection as a platform for transcultural perspectives, employing innovative, multisensory, and collaborative methods to highlight marginalized stories that challenge Eurocentric frameworks. Ultimately, it will contribute to new understandings of humanity’s relationship with the sea and foster deeper connections between past/present maritime histories. https://melaniegarland.com/POETIC-CARTOGRAPHY Wed, 23 Apr 2025 21:30:59 +0000 MELANIE GARLAND https://melaniegarland.com/POETIC-CARTOGRAPHY POETIC CARTOGRAPHY FESTIVALCounter Mapping Project Fragment from the (forthcoming) paper:&nbsp;Traces of Counter-Mapping: Rethinking Berlin after the Berlin Conference by Garland, M., Maier, J. C., Lyonga, Hn., Person, N.(2025) ︎ More infromation about Counter Mapping project visit HERE Tracing Beyond Borders By Melanie Garland On November 15th 2025, we opened the three days of the Festival Poetic Cartography Berlin in the Amo Salon* together with the curator, poet and dear friend hn. lyonga&nbsp;with a joint recitation of our poem ‘This Is Where We Are’. This poem served as a poetic manifesto, reflecting our festival’s curatorial questions: Who We Are, Where We Come From, and Where We Are going. Rooted in our narratives as people from the Global South, the poem embodied traces of counter-narratives —aspirations and histories interwoven with post-migrant European landscapes.&nbsp; <img width="2400" height="1601" width_o="2400" height_o="1601" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fd1e4f64e3811a99c3a80ae7bed0a633e782f6b5f55ed94f41be9bdd1ac6d5d6/201411_Poetic-Cartographies_webpablohassmann_Intigallardo-295.jpg" data-mid="230611579" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fd1e4f64e3811a99c3a80ae7bed0a633e782f6b5f55ed94f41be9bdd1ac6d5d6/201411_Poetic-Cartographies_webpablohassmann_Intigallardo-295.jpg" />November 16th 2025, 2nd day of the festival, performance The song to the melting of the ice&nbsp; by artist Daniela Zambrano, photo by Pablo Hassmann In curating the Berlin Poetic Cartography Festival, we explored the possibility of counter-cartographies through poetry, allowing us to reconnect with the notion of “trace.” The “trace,” as Jacques Derrida remarks, is not merely a remainder of thepast but a sign of absence—an interruption that challenges linear interpretations of time and history (Derrida, 1967). In this context, the trace is both a mark toward the past and a force for reimagining the future. Poetic counter-cartography amplifies this notion of trace, subverting dominant narratives to reveal the silenced and erased histories of colonized and marginalized communities. As an artistic method of resistance, poetic counter-cartography transforms the idea of the map from an authoritarian tool into a collaborative process. It reclaims personal and collective histories, allowing narratives to emerge in a fluid and interconnected polyphonic mode that counters the forms of separation and division that shape our world today. Tracing Collective Geographies through poetry Our curatorial process, as well our migratory journeys, has been deeply shaped by traces. Traces that reflect the places we have called home, the relationships that have defined us, the cultural intersections that inform our polifon-identities, and the enduring colonial imprints in our ancestral histories. These traces do not exist as static memories but as dynamic narratives, shaping how we navigate and interpretour worlds. Poetic-counter-cartography, in this sense, is an embodied practice—one that acknowledges the impermanence of memory while celebrating its transformative potential. <img width="2400" height="1601" width_o="2400" height_o="1601" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3cd254141dd1d53110e9f7da8bbcfb0c92d174ef474c6445fcfa05e74f561272/201411_Poetic-Cartographies_webpablohassmann_Intigallardo-171.jpg" data-mid="230611856" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3cd254141dd1d53110e9f7da8bbcfb0c92d174ef474c6445fcfa05e74f561272/201411_Poetic-Cartographies_webpablohassmann_Intigallardo-171.jpg" />November 15th 2025, 1st day of the festival, photo by Pablo Hassmann For the Poetic Cartography Festival, we invited ten poets and artists whose work honors their cultural traces while critically engaging with the colonial legacies that persist in their collective contemporary identities. For instance, the autobiographical poetry of Afro-German Savannah Sipho reflects the intricacies of Afro-descendant people in European cultures. Similarly, Daniela Zambrano brings the ice rituals from South American Andean epistemologies, reimagining the high-altitude ice traditions of Quechua peoples. Rami Shalati’s modular textile installations weave together traces of Arabic migration, creating counter-narratives of identity through fabric interpretation.Through these poets and artists, we sought to amplify multi-voices that challenge Western-centric approaches to mapping. By re-centering diasporic perspectives in the heart of Berlin-Mitte, the festival created a counter-narrative that critically engaged with colonial structures. It foregrounded transcultural and multivocal perspectives, illustrating how diasporic and post-migrant communities are pivotal to decolonial thought. Throughout this curatorial process, poetry emerged as a tool for counter-narrative. It invites openness to our surroundings, cultivating spaces of connection and transformation. As a counter-narrative, poetry has the power to reshape dominant and fixed spaces into spaces of caring solidarity through emotions, feelings, and community. In this way, thanks to poets, artists, and the public, we succeeded increating a space where poetry serves as a force to break dominant spatial barriers. By amplifying voices normally excluded from historical narratives, we collaboratively created a space of care, solidarity, and neighboring. This festival shows us that tracing excluded histories is not just an act of remembering but a collaborative practice of co-creation—a way of reimagining futures rooted in shared histories. In the interplay between trace and becoming, poetic-counter-cartographies offer a path to building more inclusive spaces, forging connections that transcend borders, time, and place. <img width="2400" height="1601" width_o="2400" height_o="1601" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cb7bcda017c465f01a5ad765899f7071ff3243b904532a200bbbd093947e83ba/201411_Poetic-Cartographies_webpablohassmann_Intigallardo-266.jpg" data-mid="230611863" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cb7bcda017c465f01a5ad765899f7071ff3243b904532a200bbbd093947e83ba/201411_Poetic-Cartographies_webpablohassmann_Intigallardo-266.jpg" />November 16th 2025, 2nd day of the festival, performance The song to the melting of the ice by artist Daniela Zambrano, photo by Pablo Hassmann *The Amo Salon is a publicly accessible space in the center of Berlin that brings together artists, researchers, and members of the civil society to reflect on the city’s colonial past, its impact in the present, and implications for the future. Located at Institut für Europäische Ethnologie Anton-Wilhelm-Amo-Straße 40/41 (formerly M-Straße) 10117 Berlin. https://melaniegarland.com/ABOUT Wed, 29 Jun 2016 14:19:36 +0000 MELANIE GARLAND https://melaniegarland.com/ABOUT My work spans critical museum and anarchival practices, as well as postcolonial and postmigrant urban space. I engage with border regimes, critical feminist geography, and decolonial approaches through artistic-ethnographic methods. I work at the intersection of art, anthropology, and cultural heritage, engaging with object-based installations, performance-based sound art, and curatorial processes grounded in feminist ethics of care.&nbsp;I am particularly interested in collaborative and transacademic exhibition-making and urban-walk interventions that draw on multisensory and collective practices to challenge conventional ethnographic and museum display methods. More recently, my research has turned toward multispecies studies, with a focus on the sonic dimensions of oceans and deserts, approached through archipelagic, postcolonial oceanic, and exhausted ecologies perspectives. I am an artist, researcher, and scholar based in Berlin. I am the co-founder and curator of NomadicArt and NomadicRadio, platforms that explore themes of migration, neighborhood, and community storytelling. I am also a member of the Amo Collective, which has been involved in the campaign to rename Berlin M* Streat as Anton-Whilmen-Amo-Streat and envision a space for collective memory addressing Urban colonial history in Berlin.&nbsp; I hold a PhD from the Institute of European Ethnology at Humboldt University in Berlin, supervised by Regina Römhild and Bonaventure Ndikung. I also hold a Master’s degree in Restoration and Conservation of Cultural Heritage from Palazzo Spinelli, Italy,&nbsp; and a Bachelor’s degree in Visual Art from the University of Chile. My work has been presented internationally in both solo and group exhibitions. I have curated collaborative exhibitions across Germany, Italy, and Chile, and have received several prizes and research grants, including the Global Connectivity in Maritime Perspective Fellowship at the German Maritime Museum / Leibniz Institute for Maritime History (2025, Postdoc), Culture Moves Europe (2025), Urban Praxis / Department of Culture and Social Cohesion of the Berlin Senate (2024, 2023, with Amo Collective), the Elsa Neumann Fellowship (2020–2023, PhD), Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (2021, 2022, PhD), the European Commission / Magic Carpet (2018), and the European Cultural Foundation / Compagnia di San Paolo (2017). My artistic participations include the Magic Carpet Landed in Kaunas Biennial (2021), Ojo Andino at Fondazione Giorgio Cini&nbsp;in conjunction with the 56th Venice Biennale (2015), Berlin Refugee Memorial / ASI at Maxim Gorki Theater (2015), Berlin Art Week, ZK/U Center for Arts and Urbanistics (2013), et al. My works are also part of Imago Mundi Luciano Benetton Collection, Italy, Lite-Haus Gallery Berlin, Amo Living Archive Berlin, and private collections. <img width="5000" height="3336" width_o="5000" height_o="3336" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/552a66444eb8b30947817837bf153f629141d4aae64e4ff6c3dbdc54d4d20b9a/_DSC0930_o.JPG" data-mid="209255189" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/552a66444eb8b30947817837bf153f629141d4aae64e4ff6c3dbdc54d4d20b9a/_DSC0930_o.JPG" />© L'Aquila Reale Current academic collaborations:&nbsp; (2026) Guest artist-researcher&nbsp;at the Berlin-Brandenburgische Landesstelle für Alltagskultur (Office for Everyday Culture), in cooperation with the Institute for European Ethnology and the Center for Cultural Technique at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Recent collaborations:&nbsp;(2025) Guest artist-researcher at&nbsp;RTG Postcolonial Neighborhoods, DFG project. Institut für Europäische Ethnologie Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin(2025) Guest artist-researcher at&nbsp;Deutsches Schifffahrtsmuseum, Leibniz-Institut für Maritime Geschichte, Bremerhaven Affiliations &amp; Memberships: ︎Deutsches Schifffahrtsmuseum, Leibniz-Institut für Maritime Geschichte, BremerhavenOcean comm/uni/ty TBA21 Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary︎ BBK Berlin Berufsverband bildender Künstler*innen Berlin︎ Laboratory: Anthropology of Environment | Human Relations | IfEE&nbsp; |&nbsp; University Humboldt BerlínLaboratory: Critical Europeanization and Migration Studies | IfEE&nbsp; |&nbsp; University Humboldt Berlín Laboratory: Amo-Salon/Amo collective Berlin: antiracist and decolonial studies |&nbsp; IfEE&nbsp; | University Humboldt Berlín︎ Centro Studi Postcoloniali e di Genere | L'Orientale | Università degli Studi di Napoli Georg Simmel Center for Urban Studies | University Humboldt Berlín︎ ZK/U Center for Arts and Urbanistics in Berlin © Melanie Garland 2026. All rights reserved https://melaniegarland.com/CONTACT Sat, 26 Nov 2016 15:16:00 +0000 MELANIE GARLAND https://melaniegarland.com/CONTACT For commissions, sales, copyrights, collaborations, and teachings, please contact: ︎ m@melaniegarland.comCONTACT FORM Feel free to write in EN, ES, IT, or DE Represented by LiTE-HAUS Galerie Ad Finem GmbHMareschstraße 4 12055 Berlin, Germany www.lite-haus.net/melanie-garland https://melaniegarland.com/Front-page-website Tue, 04 Jul 2023 22:23:23 +0000 MELANIE GARLAND https://melaniegarland.com/Front-page-website <img width="300" height="450" width_o="300" height_o="450" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6ed996b8a569ba61817a876b0ad20b41b330be41404592944c1db528dbfcd602/ChatGPT-Image-Nov-14--2025--10_10_45-AM-1.png" data-mid="240963250" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/300/i/6ed996b8a569ba61817a876b0ad20b41b330be41404592944c1db528dbfcd602/ChatGPT-Image-Nov-14--2025--10_10_45-AM-1.png" /> ︎ ︎ ︎ https://melaniegarland.com/ARTIFACTS-OF-NEICHBORING Mon, 04 Mar 2024 14:56:03 +0000 MELANIE GARLAND https://melaniegarland.com/ARTIFACTS-OF-NEICHBORING ARTIFACTS OF NEICHBORING Public Art intervention produced by Amo collective in the context of the urban walk Decolonial Flânerie 2023. Performed in September 2023 in the streets of Berlin-Mitte. <img width="846" height="568" width_o="846" height_o="568" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/15f440c30f9846921b6a2165b433fb8e8c9730388b738b48ed2b97860bc9111a/Screenshot-2024-03-04-at-15.44.07.png" data-mid="209255195" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/846/i/15f440c30f9846921b6a2165b433fb8e8c9730388b738b48ed2b97860bc9111a/Screenshot-2024-03-04-at-15.44.07.png" /> © Inti Gallardo The signs-artifacts were part of a public intervention inspired by placards from past anti-racist movements. They guided the Decolonial Flânerie walk, connecting historical struggles to present-day activism. They highlight key events like the fight to rename M*Straße and the Haitian Revolution, bringing together the main themes and stops of the Flânerie. The signs were created by Amo Collective members Melanie Garland, Ingri Pavezi, and Eryn Staiblin in 2023. <img width="1260" height="805" width_o="1260" height_o="805" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6eb3589c4f41c10f367c4ccbfad71bce335732a2bfec301d811e5adcd9659dab/Screenshot-2024-03-04-at-15.51.19.png" data-mid="209255196" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6eb3589c4f41c10f367c4ccbfad71bce335732a2bfec301d811e5adcd9659dab/Screenshot-2024-03-04-at-15.51.19.png" /><img width="1255" height="807" width_o="1255" height_o="807" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5db06320f3d0daf40708412bdf8ec566664dfc7048d209fc991cd37c36305932/Screenshot-2024-03-04-at-15.51.29.png" data-mid="209255197" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5db06320f3d0daf40708412bdf8ec566664dfc7048d209fc991cd37c36305932/Screenshot-2024-03-04-at-15.51.29.png" /><img width="1258" height="800" width_o="1258" height_o="800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b38517080634073223307e38778ef0f4637f5a95dec3ec84562f083f4ee3b466/Screenshot-2024-03-04-at-15.51.37.png" data-mid="209255198" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b38517080634073223307e38778ef0f4637f5a95dec3ec84562f083f4ee3b466/Screenshot-2024-03-04-at-15.51.37.png" /><img width="1257" height="804" width_o="1257" height_o="804" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cb8478a79d9563c01bd1a3eead8be9835a19596e580cdae6292cdeabdcfcf10b/Screenshot-2024-03-04-at-15.51.48.png" data-mid="209255199" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cb8478a79d9563c01bd1a3eead8be9835a19596e580cdae6292cdeabdcfcf10b/Screenshot-2024-03-04-at-15.51.48.png" /><img width="1264" height="805" width_o="1264" height_o="805" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/194c59ece64d661115901b477e16088cb0807b4bb9ecc8940fadeabc40fd8d3c/Screenshot-2024-03-04-at-15.51.58.png" data-mid="209255200" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/194c59ece64d661115901b477e16088cb0807b4bb9ecc8940fadeabc40fd8d3c/Screenshot-2024-03-04-at-15.51.58.png" /><img width="1265" height="808" width_o="1265" height_o="808" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a0038148f740012f8ce097375f5bab6c8374dc5dcccde2f5b0e55a82c54cfdef/Screenshot-2024-03-04-at-15.52.07.png" data-mid="209255201" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a0038148f740012f8ce097375f5bab6c8374dc5dcccde2f5b0e55a82c54cfdef/Screenshot-2024-03-04-at-15.52.07.png" /><img width="1251" height="810" width_o="1251" height_o="810" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/33d1fc2c0b5f9f34200b767a5b5d9908a227107a7dccff26561ab2043e89c86f/Screenshot-2024-03-04-at-15.52.16.png" data-mid="209255202" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/33d1fc2c0b5f9f34200b767a5b5d9908a227107a7dccff26561ab2043e89c86f/Screenshot-2024-03-04-at-15.52.16.png" /> https://melaniegarland.com/OCEANIC-RUINS Mon, 04 Mar 2024 15:11:03 +0000 MELANIE GARLAND https://melaniegarland.com/OCEANIC-RUINS OCEANIC RUINS Site-specific sonic performative exercise held on May 22, 2023, at Horace's Villa—a large ancient Roman villa complex near Licenza-Rome, Italy. This ruined villa is associated with the Roman poet Horace and his numerous poems about the place. The special elaborate architectural features and location of the villa correspond to the descriptions in the poetry.Oceanic Ruins was a site-specific performance as part of the L'Aquila Reale art residency in Licenza, Rome-Italy © Camera: L'Aquila Reale In crafting the Oceanic Ruins performative exercise, my aim was to create an intertwining between the past and the present. Through the resonance of the mobile megaphone transported through Horace's Villa, the timeless echoes of today's Mediterranean sound resonated and vibrated with the Roman imperial heritage infrastructure. This act served as a sonic-tension between ancient imperial heritage and the contemporary complexity of the mobilities of people passing through the same sea. The performative action was intended to evoke a nuanced understanding where the waves of the past and present converge in the same urban landscape. https://melaniegarland.com/SOMEWHERE-INBETWEEN Sun, 31 Jul 2022 21:09:43 +0000 MELANIE GARLAND https://melaniegarland.com/SOMEWHERE-INBETWEEN SOMEWHERE INBETWEEN part I&nbsp; As part of the Somewhere Inbetween, I am reflecting and questioning how and why to exhibit ethnographically —the anthropological method on which some of my research is based. I am interested in stressing the boundaries between artistic practices and ethnography, going beyond the mere duality, and reflecting on the possibility of transdisciplinarity and other methodological ways for the research design within the arts and social sciences.The exhibition was held from June 30th to July 23rd 2022 at LITE HAUS Gallery, Berlin. Afterwards a further elaboration of this exhibition was shown at Chilean Conexión Art festival, Monopol Gallery Berlin. September 1-3, 2022.&nbsp; <img width="1600" height="1200" width_o="1600" height_o="1200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ce2cf8836559b2409d4e098d0a045a512301cf16ce99ed9c2a5c355fc8a2fc54/202207_Garland_webpablohassmann-6.png" data-mid="209255205" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ce2cf8836559b2409d4e098d0a045a512301cf16ce99ed9c2a5c355fc8a2fc54/202207_Garland_webpablohassmann-6.png" />©Pablo HassmannThe exhibition Somewhere Inbetween was part of my PhD research on border regimes in Europe and South America, especially Italy, France, and Chile. I reflect on three informal and self-managed camps, which have been resistant and resilient in the face of the current border regimes, transforming abandoned areas into sociable places. <img width="1600" height="1200" width_o="1600" height_o="1200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d73720dcf18a984e10cf6685abd6713687457c04be83fb5c43c9660efa0bf161/202207_Garland_web_group1pablohassmann.png" data-mid="209255204" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d73720dcf18a984e10cf6685abd6713687457c04be83fb5c43c9660efa0bf161/202207_Garland_web_group1pablohassmann.png" /><img width="1600" height="1200" width_o="1600" height_o="1200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7eccf03800dca24c985197b43563176c03bf246441cd6dd1cf6d9286733080d5/202207_Garland_webpablohassmann-11.png" data-mid="209255206" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7eccf03800dca24c985197b43563176c03bf246441cd6dd1cf6d9286733080d5/202207_Garland_webpablohassmann-11.png" /><img width="5000" height="3750" width_o="5000" height_o="3750" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/55c024d7e2a7ea6691081d1f10c2d0b6aaac0604016ff1446d6b68b0ea439561/200smallerwebjpg202207_Garland_print_Island-3pablohassmann-2_o.jpg" data-mid="209255221" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/55c024d7e2a7ea6691081d1f10c2d0b6aaac0604016ff1446d6b68b0ea439561/200smallerwebjpg202207_Garland_print_Island-3pablohassmann-2_o.jpg" /><img width="1600" height="1067" width_o="1600" height_o="1067" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7f04e55319b10ab9cc72eaf8bd943ce5db721692c18208da7b3bd2b7cbae3760/202207_Garland_webpablohassmann-16.png" data-mid="209255207" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7f04e55319b10ab9cc72eaf8bd943ce5db721692c18208da7b3bd2b7cbae3760/202207_Garland_webpablohassmann-16.png" /><img width="1600" height="1067" width_o="1600" height_o="1067" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f3389e22408da17fbca2017866ef551eb54bb6208bda6875c128d48b45f807c5/202207_Garland_webpablohassmann-25.png" data-mid="209255210" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f3389e22408da17fbca2017866ef551eb54bb6208bda6875c128d48b45f807c5/202207_Garland_webpablohassmann-25.png" /><img width="1600" height="1067" width_o="1600" height_o="1067" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/69216ce1c7e0a2d6eba015026e2b0081bd02e2ce2e4c30fa120cc51ad33dc651/202207_Garland_webpablohassmann-38.png" data-mid="209255213" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/69216ce1c7e0a2d6eba015026e2b0081bd02e2ce2e4c30fa120cc51ad33dc651/202207_Garland_webpablohassmann-38.png" /><img width="1600" height="1067" width_o="1600" height_o="1067" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8f1280266fb05e1f37b09bb7c6937a671cda819f77ff9119c5ee83abfb97c614/202207_Garland_webpablohassmann-18.png" data-mid="209255208" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8f1280266fb05e1f37b09bb7c6937a671cda819f77ff9119c5ee83abfb97c614/202207_Garland_webpablohassmann-18.png" /><img width="1600" height="1067" width_o="1600" height_o="1067" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/16e56e958865bde8bade5596ae4899970b4d8f11caa6e2a771328eec8858d2ef/202207_Garland_webpablohassmann-23.png" data-mid="209255209" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/16e56e958865bde8bade5596ae4899970b4d8f11caa6e2a771328eec8858d2ef/202207_Garland_webpablohassmann-23.png" /><img width="1600" height="1067" width_o="1600" height_o="1067" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7e56fd64f09465d0458c5955e8908f58a22e1affd70b4a8a76ebc3a0bb1003ce/202207_Garland_webpablohassmann-31.png" data-mid="209255211" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7e56fd64f09465d0458c5955e8908f58a22e1affd70b4a8a76ebc3a0bb1003ce/202207_Garland_webpablohassmann-31.png" /><img width="1600" height="1067" width_o="1600" height_o="1067" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/733ba9e00fab2fe4073e962424f3a101dff397e87ad8c8b72fa684b44c6bcc23/202207_Garland_webpablohassmann-32.png" data-mid="209255212" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/733ba9e00fab2fe4073e962424f3a101dff397e87ad8c8b72fa684b44c6bcc23/202207_Garland_webpablohassmann-32.png" /><img width="1600" height="1067" width_o="1600" height_o="1067" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/410d5ff7d95ff34931555fad457be82fdcd92573e626ec7eaceb298a31e3a3ba/202207_Garland_webpablohassmann-42.png" data-mid="209255214" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/410d5ff7d95ff34931555fad457be82fdcd92573e626ec7eaceb298a31e3a3ba/202207_Garland_webpablohassmann-42.png" />