29.10.2026

10.00–11.30 am

Jay Mar Albaos

Anthropologist and artistic researcher

On Artist? Talk? Conversing with the Other

Join Jay Mar Albaos in a conversation on how does a migrant body present its position in relation to the world it is navigating in? What are the artistic, theoretical, and cultural implications when such a body is assigned as the Other? Along performance and migration contexts, what does the migrant Other’s body mean within relevant/relative European spaces? In the session, Jay – together with the (online) audience – will exchange about lived experiences as well as bodies of works as artistic/conceptual reflections alongside being constant border crossers.

Jay Albaos (1991) explores how migrants—workers, students of color, undocumented people— create place and selfhood in foreign environments. His method, artistic immersion, uses collaboration, participation, and dialogue to foster artistic creation and engage in migration (policy) contexts. A former community worker with Indigenous Peoples and a theatre performer, he later studied Live Art and Performance Studies in Helsinki and earned an advanced MA in Cultural Anthropology and Development Studies at KU Leuven. He is now a doctoral candidate at LUCA School of Arts/KU Leuven while working full-time at Decathlon. His work entwines anthropology, ethnography, and performance – moving between solo pieces and (community) collaborations. Born in Dipolog, Philippines, Jay is based in Gent, Belgium.

Jay Mar’s is invited by Olga Spyropoulou.

W: https://jayalbaos.com/

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