Christos Galanis is an artist, researcher, and teacher who enjoys migration, facilitated by Greek/Canadian passports.
A PhD candidate in Human Geography at Edinburgh University, he is researching practices of walking and belonging within the Scottish Highlands by Munro/Peak-Baggers and Scots-Canadian ‘homecomers’.
His art/research projects have included a 200km memorial walk in Catalonia for an exiled Spanish Civil-War fighter-pilot (Sobre Las Huellas), and a performative year-long interrogation of institutional bio-ethics in collaboration with his donkey, Fairuz (Donkey Walking: Rituals of Progress & Domestication). He holds an MFA in Art & Ecology from the University of New Mexico, a BFA in Music from Concordia University, Montreal, and is an active member of the Edinburgh Environmental Humanities Network (EEHN) and RANE, the Research in Art, Nature and Environment research group.
A PhD candidate in Human Geography at Edinburgh University, he is researching practices of walking and belonging within the Scottish Highlands by Munro/Peak-Baggers and Scots-Canadian ‘homecomers’.
His art/research projects have included a 200km memorial walk in Catalonia for an exiled Spanish Civil-War fighter-pilot (Sobre Las Huellas), and a performative year-long interrogation of institutional bio-ethics in collaboration with his donkey, Fairuz (Donkey Walking: Rituals of Progress & Domestication). He holds an MFA in Art & Ecology from the University of New Mexico, a BFA in Music from Concordia University, Montreal, and is an active member of the Edinburgh Environmental Humanities Network (EEHN) and RANE, the Research in Art, Nature and Environment research group.
