Friday, January 16, 2026

Socioplastics and Unstable Agency * Selected Works

My practice operates at the intersection of architectural theory, nomadic materiality, and relational pedagogy. It is grounded in a transdisciplinary framework that understands the urban environment not as a static container, but as a living palimpsest—continuously shaped by processes of inscription, erosion, repair, and reconfiguration. This practice engages mobility, affect, and situated action as operative tools, addressing the ethical dimensions of intervention within contemporary spatial and social systems. Rather than producing fixed forms or solutions, the work activates provisional structures and relational situations that resist spatial homogenization, attend to marginalized narratives, and sustain cultural memory in the face of urban extraction and gentrification. Learning, transmission, and agency emerge here as distributed and non-linear processes, where body, archive, and city remain in constant negotiation.

The trajectory begins with the nomadic threshold of Blue Bags (2014–Ongoing), repositioning the artist as a translatorial agent in urban space. This fluidity finds structural anchor in the architectural legitimacy of The Trole Building and the theoretical weight of The Trans-Lighthouse Manifesto. The scale expands into the anatomy of Urban Taxidermy in London and the transcontinental labor of Re-(t)exHile at the Africa Biennial, further articulated by the nomadic Green Briefcase. The narrative deepens through the durational gaze of Positional Essays and the performative inquiry of Stage Series | Double-Sided. Supported by the radical simplicity of The Yellow Bag and the modular epistemic space of YouTube Breakfast, the synthesis concludes in the curatorial resistance of Socioplastics and the Urban Palimpsest, where collective agency emerges through the recovery of memory within the ever-shifting urban fabric.