Beyond What Drifts Us Apart
a MagiC Carpets project

Beyond What Drifts Us Apart (BWDUA), is a multi-year research project uncovering the less dominant narratives of the environments surrounding historic coastal towers in the Maltese Islands. As colonial legacies have dispersed over time, the relevance of these coastal towers beyond their cultural significance has faded. Aside from challenging the colonial histories associated with these sites of cultural significance, BWDUA aims to initiate investigations and understand the consequent relationships developed/developing between their surrounding impacted landscapes and non-human communities. Employing decolonial and post-anthropocentric perspectives, BWDUA acknowledges the exploitation of natural systems leading to a climate collapse and an overabundance of technological systems. It reconsiders the dichotomies between the visible and the invisible, addressing new materialisms, extractive capitalism and contestation of seemingly untouched landscapes.

2025

Residency Dates
10 September - 9 October

Artists
Giulia Iacolutti, Martina Farrugia, Indiġikċina in collaboration with Noah Fabri

Beyond What Drifts Us Apart is part of the MagiC Carpets Platform, co-funded by the European Union’s Creative Europe program. The MagiC Carpets Platform brings together 21 European cultural organisations, coordinated by Kaunas Biennial in Lithuania, offering opportunities for emerging artists to explore little-known areas and to create - together with local communities - new works that bring to light regional particularities and traditions.

Credits

Emerging Curator: Elyse Tonna
Lead Partner: Kaunas Biennale
Co-funded by: European Union’s Creative Europe programme,
Collaborators in Malta & Gozo: Din l-Art Ħelwa and the volunteers