Contributors
The Fall 2025 edition of OCEAN / UNI, titled Spaces of Collaboration, is curated by Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll and Verena Melgarejo Weinandt, two thinkers and practitioners deeply engaged in the intersections of art, colonial history, and cultural restitution.
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Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll is an artist, writer, and professor of global art at the University of Birmingham. Her work explores the entangled legacies of empire through performance, film, and visual research.
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Verena Melgarejo Weinandt is a Berlin-based artist, curator, and scholar whose work draws on Afro-diasporic and Latin American feminist perspectives to challenge dominant narratives and reclaim embodied ways of knowing.
Together, they have shaped a semester that gathers powerful voices from across the Atlantic and Pacific worlds.
Program Schedule
Venue: Zoom, Ocean-Archive.org & ocean comm/un/ity
All sessions take place live online via Zoom, biweekly on Wednesdays at 6 pm CET
(1 pm AST // 7 pm SAST // 12 pm EST // 10:30 pm IST // 2 pm BRT)
Wednesday, October 22, 6 pm CEST
PROLOGUE – Session 1: Saltwater Filmmakers
Guests: Britten Syd Andrews, Kasimir Burgess, and Joel Kaudife Haikali
Wednesday, November 5, 6 pm CET
Session 2: Interfacing the Ocean
Guests: Karmen Franinović, Roman Kirschner
Wednesday, November 19, 6 pm CET
Session 3: Collective Construction of a Sculptural Monument with the Ocean
Guests: Liliana Gómez, Alfredo Ledesma Quintana
Wednesday, December 3, 6 pm CET
Session 4: Exploring Interconnectedness with Water
Guests: Seba Calfuqueo (additional guest TBC)
Wednesday, December 10, 6 pm CET
EPILOGUE – Session 5: Crossing the Ocean Back and Forth, or the Scripting of Shared Histories
Guests: Sènami Donoumassou, Adéwolé Faladé