The long-neglected industrial wastelands of Romania present themselves as heterotopias in need of help.

Fata Morgana. An Essay Journey explores the optical phenomenon of the Fata Morgana and its mythical namesake, Morgain Le Fay, as a figure of thought to explore transcultural and transgeographical relationships between landscape and identity.

Welcome to Galaxy Revolution, the space station of Historical Spiritual Vibrations space agency.

The photographic image has always historizised; an artifact of the past, photographic moment. But just as it is conditioned by the temporal and material context of its making, its essence – if there is one – is conditioned by how we encounter the image.

There are moments within a performance where destruction and deviation from reality allow an alternative scenario to reveal itself. I argue that these moments can be called ‘brieftopic’, fleeting glimpses into a possible future (Behzad Khosravi Noori, 2024).

This Exposition is a brief ironic comment on the ongoing degradation, commodification, and colonisation of food and its many dimensions—recipes, ingredients, context—and a reflection on the territorial definitions that shape identity, in this case of South Asians and the Global South.