TABOO - TRANSGRESSION - TRANSCENDENCE

On behalf of the Ionian University, we are pleased to announce that Kim Doan Quoc will be developing research as part of a mobility grant awarded through the Rewilding Cultures project. Selected from over 80 applicants, Kim is one of eight artists and researchers chosen by a panel representing all partner organizations of the Rewilding Cultures network. This grant supports transdisciplinary exploration and critical practices across Europe, and we are proud that Kim’s work will contribute to this vibrant and timely initiative.

Ghazal Ramzani, a Berlin-based Iranian dancer and choreographer, has completed groundbreaking research connecting indigenous dance practices to anti-colonial and ecological movements across Europe supported by Ionian University. Ramzani, who received funding through the Rewilding Cultures Mobility Conversation program in 2024, traveled by train across Europe to interview practitioners of indigenous dances rooted in resistance movements. Ramzani holds a Master of Fine Arts in Contemporary Performative Arts from the University of Gothenburg and received formal training in Kathak dance at the National School of Kathak in New Delhi. She was previously awarded the Indian Council of Arts and Culture recognition and the Artisens Vanner scholarship.

TTTfellows: Art and Science Residency II, March 18th to 29th, 2024, featured artists developing projects that examined artificial insemination, in vitro fertilization, germline gene editing, and zombie studies, in the islands of Othonoi and Corfu, merged art and technology to critique ectogenesis and its entanglement with state biopolitics, highlighting ethical and aesthetic dimensions of these practices. Artists Clarissa Ribeiro and Robert Lisek participated as fellows, with Dalila Honorato and Adam Zaretsky serving as art and science coordinators for the program.