Papaphilia/Fjorn Bastos is an artist, researcher, and community-event organiser. As an artist, she works primarily in sound and narrativised performance under the name Papaphilia. She also maintains a visual art practice that merges digital collage and oil painting, to interrogate the less visible visual-compositional tropes of colonial landscapes.

As a researcher, she is interested in how neoliberal forms of governance in the colony use racialised and sexualised discourses to shape the political; which then informs her writing on sound-poetics and the challenge they pose to anglophone notions of sound and music as property.

She has coordinated, managed and overseen community-based projects that cross disciplinary fields, including the facilitation of artist and sound workshops, advocacy campaigning and community building.
She is also a director of creative sector consultancy Future Tense, and co producer of Writing and Concepts lecture series.
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