Maya Gulieva

Written on the 37 to Peckham, between Battersea Bridge and Solon Road — the only route deemed "essential" for travel in my circumstance.

ARC: Proxyerotics was born from a need to acknowledge the fragmented. A desire to destabilise the ‘norm’ and conventional practices, such as what a publication must look like and how we define identity through the multi-platform to question linear ways of thinking. Proxyerotics is ever-shifting- a force of division and unification, a primordial desire to verbalise the unpronounceable - the space between- in a sense. It is open to interpretation, as ‘Proxyerotics’ is newly coined.

Flashbacks of U (#1-10), an experimental auto-fiction, was selected for print in ARC: Proxyerotics Issue 5: Linger

With special thanks to Saumya Sharma for inspiring conversation, editorial advice and believing in my version of Proxyerotics.

The Satellite Event will be happening at the Ugly Duck, 49 Tanner st, London Sun 27 - Wed 30 June. Everyone welcome, please book a slot via Eventbrite link below

Role: Co-curator and Coordinator

"What you do with other people... talking and walking around with other people, working, dancing, suffering, some irreducible convergence of all three, held under the name of speculative practice." — Fred Moten and Stefano Harney, 2013

Fugitive Voices, led by Eleni Ikoniadou, is a series of conversations dedicated to studying alternative types of knowledge and communication that go beyond a culture founded in the European cogito. Read more

Between November 2020 - April 2021, I had the opportunity to be part of the Fugitive Voices team, designing, editing for and writing about the visiting lecturers (Abbas Zahedi, Elizabeth Price, Ifeanyi Awachie, Hamja Ahsan, Sung Tieu, Sophie Lewis, Banu Cenetoglu and more), whilst unpacking the notion of "fugitivity" — a concept that signals a divergence, a wandering, 'waywardness' from a specific social trajectory — and how it is embodied through a multitude of experimental practices.