Emily Sarsam

Emily Sarsam is an artist and researcher who works with sound, poetry & fiction, performance, and sculpture. Her research mainly looks at the impacts of colonialism and extractivism on commoning, farming and local cosmologies. 
She is a co-founder of Broudou, a research collective and publication dedicated to the future of food in Tunisia, and a team member of Tunis-based artist residency & project space, Mouhit. She is a candidate of the PhD in Practice program and currently lecturing at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna.

Emily Sarsam’s residency is realized as part of an ongoing collaboration between La Boîte Tunis and philomena+. It hosted and funded by La Boîte Tunis.