Christos Galanis: artist, researcher, and teacher who enjoys migration, facilitated by Greek/Canadian passports.
Visit my Podcast and Blog @ The Donkey and the Bridge
A PhD candidate in Human Geography at The University of Edinburgh, I am researching practices of walking and belonging within the Scottish Highlands by Munro/Peak-Baggers and Scots-Canadian ‘homecomers’.
My first book - Mountain Threnody: Walking, Freedom, and Belonging in the Highlands of Scotland - will be published in mid-2019 by Vernon Press. It's a poetically-contemplative and critical study of our complex relationships with walking, mountains, ancestors, and belonging.
My 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 my donkey, Fairuz (Donkey Walking: Rituals of Progress & Domestication). I hold an MFA in Art & Ecology from the University of New Mexico, a BFA in Music from Concordia University, Montreal, and am an active member of the Edinburgh Environmental Humanities Network (EEHN) and RANE, the Research in Art, Nature and Environment research group.
Visit my Podcast and Blog @ The Donkey and the Bridge
A PhD candidate in Human Geography at The University of Edinburgh, I am researching practices of walking and belonging within the Scottish Highlands by Munro/Peak-Baggers and Scots-Canadian ‘homecomers’.
My first book - Mountain Threnody: Walking, Freedom, and Belonging in the Highlands of Scotland - will be published in mid-2019 by Vernon Press. It's a poetically-contemplative and critical study of our complex relationships with walking, mountains, ancestors, and belonging.
My 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 my donkey, Fairuz (Donkey Walking: Rituals of Progress & Domestication). I hold an MFA in Art & Ecology from the University of New Mexico, a BFA in Music from Concordia University, Montreal, and am an active member of the Edinburgh Environmental Humanities Network (EEHN) and RANE, the Research in Art, Nature and Environment research group.