PhD Researcher
markas fortunatas klisius (they/them) is an anti-disciplinary migrant learner, researcher and dreamer. seeking multiplicities and imaginaries that counterbalance the material and immaterial stratifications of colonialism(s) and its knowledge systems, their practice attempts to capture the spatial, educational and technological parameters of infrastructural and systemic inequality, state violence and environmental transformations.
their collaborative PhD research in partnership with Whitechapel Gallery aims to explore the use of digital technology(s) in shaping concepts of hospitality and communal belonging in an arts institution, defying and unlearning traditional bureaucratic affordances and their material conditions through various place-based cosmologies, spatial experimentations and stewardship practices with cultural technologies. by engaging with decolonial pedagogical traditions, divination systems and challenging the linear temporalities engrained in western technology, this research hopes to harness conceptual and epistemological tools for speculating upon contemporary cultural infrastructures and their relationship with technology, cultivating interoperable lifeforms and equitable modes of being, remembering and interspecies belonging.