I’m an anthropologist focusing on musicking, musician, and music educator. My research explores the value of actively engaging with music among asylum seekers sheltering in receptions centres in Greece. It considers how different expressions of musicking interlace with the traumatic experience of displacement, and the uncertainties and precarity that asylum-seeking limbo induces. Through focusing on musicking, it produces new understandings around migration, refugeehood, and living in legal and existential limbo. I’m particularly interested in the concepts of encounters, including, sharing, non-belonging, and how musicking facilitates them.

When not researching, reading, writing, or teaching on such topics, I experiment with the liminalities of my personal contradictions and senses of non-belongings and practices of sharing through free improvisation with QUBe.

Some outputs:

Article on Estrangement and Senses of Belonging through Music (Open Access)

Video and Poster on Sound, Arts and Ownership of Public Space, with artists Alejandra Jimenez,  Katarzyna Musial, and Runze Feng

Unmuting Migration -Part 1 and Part 2. Lessons from studying music and migration and Lessons in Practice. An interview with Assoc. Prof. Dr. Eckehard Pistrick.