Carolyn Defrin

Carolyn Defrin is an artist-researcher-facilitator, originally from the US and based at the University of Graz in Austria. In collaboration with local communities and other artists, she works across installation, video, theatre, sound and poetry to express issues related to migration, borders, social cohesion, health and housing. She is currently completing a Marie Skladowska-Curie post-doctoral fellowship exploring the role of art in imagining migration futures beyond current narratives of securitization and division in Samos, Greece and Tenerife, Spain. She is also co-founder of 'Kissing Project', a multimedia platform that brings people together through stories that begin with a kiss. Learn more: carolyndefrin.com