Stephanie Misa

Jay Albaos explores how migrants—workers, students of color, undocumented people—create place and selfhood in foreign environments. His method, artistic immersion, uses collaboration, participation, and dialogue to foster artistic creation and engage migration (policy) contexts. A former community worker with Indigenous Peoples and a theatre performer, he later studied Live Art in Helsinki and earned an advanced MA in Cultural Anthropology at KU Leuven. He is now a doctoral candidate at LUCA School of Arts/KU Leuven while working full-time at Decathlon. His work entwines anthropology, ethnography, and performance – moving between solo pieces and (community) collaborations. Born in Tacloban, Philippines he is based in Gent, Belgium.