Review, September 2026
In She Flickered In and Out of History (2026), Elisa Giardina Papa traces the emergence and disappearance of a volcanic island between Sicily and Tunisia to explore the politics of refusal, the limits of historical knowledge, and the fragility of colonial claims to territory. Through fleeting, ungovernable forms of collective life, the work imagines refusal not simply as resistance, but as a way of remaining otherwise – allowing suppressed histories and alternative political futures to flicker into view.
Review, May 2025
What knowledge is erased when we fail to account for the multiple, embodied ways of understanding the world? Hygrosummons (iter.01) creates the conditions for a decolonial understanding of water, offering a way to engage with it that is not about mastery, but about reanimation—acknowledging the fluid, unknowable reality of the world around us.
in the Mekong Delta
Essay, 2023
This essay seeks to muddy the waters of conventional subject–object epistemology, reimagining human–environment relations through an analysis of Thao Nguyen Phan’s Becoming Alluvium. Exploring how the geological processes of the Mekong Delta unsettle the boundaries between body and landscape, human and non-human, it proposes a relational ontology of collective becoming in which the body is understood as fluid, mutable and inseparable from its environment.