Breakwater

With mutual interests in counter-narratives of ancestral/indigenous knowledge and queer methodologies, Breakwater’s practice centres around the socio-politics of neo/colonialism, climate justice and migrants’ live experiences.

Breakwater is the recipient of the ACE Project Grant (2020-22) for the diaspora healing project Becoming Forest which proposes mental health as a collective responsibility and adopts a folk healing approach that engages cultural common ground, seasons and nature as critical healers.

Following the trajectories of neo-colonial extraction, their current projects explore how trauma instigates building blocks of community-led healing, resilience and collective intelligence. In 2021, Breakwater founded the research-practice working group Decolonising Botany, which challenges the processes and methodologies around nature-bound knowledge production.