Research Catalogue

It is a foundational human trait to long for miracles. We yearn for the unexpected, something new to transcend our everyday life. As anyone who has planted a seed might know, the world is already brimming with wonders. Why, then, is this not enough? Why does it sometimes feel like we have lost the connection to something larger than ourselves, something supernatural or more-than-human? In this text I am exploring the human need for miracles through a queer lens. Through my live performance “The Weeping Madonna” (2025) I am investigating alchemy as a method to acquire knowledge about the world, and whether it is possible to use our imagination as a starting point for collective rituals in order to call forth a new reality; a futurity.

Preparatory work for art installation, 2016-present. Happening, 2016. Participant's empirical research, including improvised full recorded interview with first generation Albanian immigrants to Greece, images, and thematic text. The research was conducted for the workshop, "Logics of Worlds", inspired by Alain Badiou's work and organised by architect Filippos Oraiopoulos, at Athens School of Fine Art (ASFA), Master of Visual Arts (Marios Spiliopoulos, Giorgios Xiropaides), December 2016. Adopting on own initiative the political approach of Badiou's "L' Organisation Politique", to apply direct intervention for societal problems, including immigration and labour, I used play as a method to facilitate improvised discussions. People share and respond more freely when participating in structured, but playful interactions, such as those a game involves. Albanians speak three languages, Albanian, Italian and, only a few of them, Greek, so I wasn't able to translate parts of the conversation. Avlona is an English now obsolete name for Vlore, an Albanian seaport and former ancient Greek colony Aulon. Albanians came as non-EU refugees in Greece initially in the 1990s, after the fall of communism in their home country. Religion was banned in communist countries; nowadays, Albanian-Muslims consist of 59% of the Albanian demographics, with other religious denominations, such as Christian Catholics, taking smaller percentages of the country's population. The democratisation of Albania began shortly afterwards, in 1994, when Albanians started protesting for political and religious pluralism in their country. At the beginning of the transition period after communism, under the Democratic Party government, Vlore became a port through which smuggling, mainly from Italy, was taking place. Notably, the men I spoke to didn't want to be visualised. Hence, the exposition aims to juxtapose the experimental and the conceptual in the fine arts; and to make the 'invisible' visible. Badiou is also known for his philosophy of metaphysics of the four "truth procedures": Politics, Science, Love and Art. The workshop was slightly interrupted by a performing arts student, who brought a live hen to slaughter in the studio. This can be taken as a metaphor for scapegoating non-EU refugees, by symbolically re-assigning the gender of male, or female persons, who are not non-EU refugees. I don't have any personal or other familial connections with Albania - or Kosovo, or North Macedonia, which are both former Yugoslavian countries; all the nationalities, including Albanian, shown on fifteen (15) fake non-EU passports, used illegally in the UK from 2013 and 2014, until 2023. I had never even visited those countries before the summer of 2024. I found out those countries are a completely different world, as ex-communist countries. For instance, in Albania, they only have state television, they don't sell Western music, they rarely play it in bars that most close at midnight, even in the summer on the coast. The 2016 ASFA project was for the purpose of researching and documenting, in an artistic and ethnographic manner, the refugee and immigration crisis, as I experienced it in my native Greece, as well as to voice my opinions on this topic, from my perspective as a native Greek. I spoke to non-EU economic refugees, who must not be confused with political asylum seekers: those are people who encounter persecution for political and ideological reasons from their countries of origin and citizenship; unlike illegal or legal economic immigrants, such as the men I spoke to, who immigrate purely for economic reasons. Albania, Kosovo, and North Macedonia, all the nationalities on the fake non-EU passports, including Albanian, used in the UK successively, from 2013 and 2014 until 2023, when they were cancelled by the UK Home Office, are non-EU countries. Greece, my native, my parents' and grandparents' native, has been in the EU since 1981. I have also been a British national, by naturalisation, since 2011, for the purpose of voting and for political participation in the UK, where I have spent most of my adult life. Paradoxically - or not so paradoxically, because I had also been investigating this case - the project's political outcome, since 2020 and 2023, was that three fictitious "daughters" of mine had been on the Met police's databases, as born in 2007, 2002 and 2001, Italian and Albanian female sex offenders; as well as two fictitious Albanian "sons" of mine, both thugs, as born in 2003 and 2004, on the National Police's databases. This was until recently, summer 2024 and spring 2025, making it a total of six (6) and five (5), as well as two (2), with the latter still pending. Based on counterfactual thinking, when we hypothesise with false antecedents, supposedly, I must had given birth to a daughter, of an unknown father, in Albania: 2001, 2002 and 2007: the "prostitutes"! Likewise, with the counterfactual thinking about me supposedly giving birth to two "schizophrenic" sons, Panagiotis Nigiannis, both, Albanians, born in Albania: 2003 and 2004! Let alone the son from Kosovo, born in 2009, in Kosovo! All of unknown fathers, because children take their father's surname, pointing at a sheer smear campaign of impossibility against myself. The above is NOT believable, because I had not been to Albania or Kosovo, before the summer of 2024, while I don't even know whether someone just being born in Albania or Kosovo automatically qualifies them for that citizenship. Even that wouldn't be possible, because I don't have Albanian or Kosovo nationality myself. The above simply reflects Golden Dawn's, the BNP's (the XRW UK component), the NRM's, and others', bizarre cultural "imagination", with regards to Albanians and Kosovo-Albanian citizens, scapegoating them, for the explicit purpose of causing me a serious case of digital identity fraud, tied in with a Golden Dawn known crime, the assassination of Greek left-wing, anti-fascist rapper Pavlos Fyssas, aka Killah P. Even as we speak, the 2020 police files were corrected with the persons' legal details since September 2024; however the relevant databases were updated and cleared in early spring 2025. What were the reasons? As far as the 2023 records are concerned, which were created when I was living in London and the fraud case first became known. Saying the above, it hadn't crossed their minds that it's not possible to have more than three citizenship, which is also dependent on the countries of citizenship. I only have two. Factually speaking, in 2002, I was living in Athens, Greece, engaged to be married to my former husband, a Greek left-wing national, while I was working at MOB (Mauve) Architects, as an architect designer, with an international cohort of colleagues. I got married in 2003. I lived in Athens until 2004, where I also worked for R.C.Tech architects. In 2001 and the period after 2004, I lived in the UK, working as an architect and in higher education. I don't have children. Women go through nine months of pregnancy, with medical records of pregnancy, before going into child birth. I gained my first practical experience as an architect in the UK, working in private architectural practice from 1999 until 2002. I didn't have children. The police files (2018X2, 2020X2), created with fake IDs, were finally corrected by September 2024, including records of falsely alleged children of mine born between 2002 and 2004, when I lived and worked in my native Greece. The police databases were corrected by early spring 2025. What were the reasons and why was the Met "misbehaving"? And what has happened with the (2023X1) police files of a trafficked teen, like the above? Notably, in 2007, I was living in London since 2005, working as an EU/Greek university lecturer. When the G20 summit demonstrations took place in London, in 2009, with the known criminal case of the death of Ian Tomlison by a police officer, named Simon Harwood - the journalist, Paul Lewis, conducted the investigation and Sir Keir Starmer was the prosecutor. No, I didn't give birth to a child called "Chrysanthi Nigianni", Albanian; neither a "Panagiotis Nigiannis" from Kosovo: there are simply NO children in my medical records in 2009. By that time, I had lived in the UK since 2005, working as an EU/Greek lecturer at the University of East London, where I was also known as Betty Nigianni (aka), by my students and colleagues. I never participated in any public demonstrations in the UK. However I have attended demonstrations in my native Greece and, in 2019, in the Netherlands, without ever having any interactions with police. It is not uncommon for politically minded cultural producers and left-wing academics, to participate peacefully in public demonstrations about causes they support, such as anti-racism, anti-capitalism, anti-austerity, environmentalism, and the nuclear arms disarmament. This is also the tradition and political legacy of the so-called "other Greek left", who are cooperative with all sorts of people, on mutual agreement that some things are given to all, such as security and liberty, and should be safeguarded in civil and democratic societies. There are no children in my medical records, which would include pregnancies, during the whole time I have lived in the UK, which is a total of seventeen years, plus: twelve of those being a British citizen. Greek children (Italian, Albanian, almost all children, besides those of British parents, who take whatever name) take their father's surname; fathers are also almost always tracked. Greeks don't have many (or any) children; they're suffering from a shrinking population for economic reasons, despite being in the EU since 1981. The offensive hate campaign against someone like myself, who has never been a mother, but cares about children and young people. Following on the above, because aspects of the propagandistic rhetoric are to instill fear of immigrants, EU nationality supersedes all non-EU nationalities. This means that EU nationals simply CANNOT be non-EU immigrants; or, even worse, so-called non-EU refugees, meaning illegal immigrants, who go to the UK and other EU countries in boats and are summoned at the border. NO ONE CAN HAVE FOUR NATIONALITIES, like one of the lot, also a mother, was purporting, because she had four fake passports with four different nationalities: two non-EU and two EU. My concerns about serious international organised criminal activity, not even honouring children's and teens' basic rights, were reported and confirmed by the Greek, Scandinavian (though some are lagging behind, mainly in Sweden) and Albanian state authorities, as evidenced in documents that I made part of this exposition. The British authorities have been lagging behind for a long time; intentionally, with their impossible, unverified and unsupported by evidence, "stories", bashing the left and the liberals, or whatever is left of them, as well as whoever is decent, whatever has been left of that, too. The Greek police confirmed in 2024 that all claims about children of mine, also between 2002 and 2004 when I lived in my native Greece, have been dismissed, including false claims about myself having a child with Loucas Papadimos (recently flipped to the father being Keir Starmer); they wanted to know what details of mine had been stolen. The Greek Golden Dawn - with their "Big Idea" (Megali Idea) of conquering foreign countries, like North Macedonia and the Southern part of Albania, as well as their chronic attacks on immigrants and refugees in Greece - was convicted as a criminal organisation in October 2020, after a five year long public prosecution, which started in 2015, with the then left-wing SYRIZA government, while it was concluded in autumn 2020, under the 2019 elected New Democracy government. With regards to the Greek, centre-left SYRIZA party, as it was led by Alexis Tsipras, I note that Zoe Konstantopoulou, a lawyer and former speaker of the Hellenic Parliament, as well as responsible for the justice, transparency and human rights brief for SYRIZA,, compiled the "Black Book of Shame", a case study of Greek political and financial scandals, between 2012-2014. Golden Dawn invented the 'concept' of the 'Real Greek', dependent on any Greek's political orientation, which is not an ancestry or race root; it's just ideology. In fact, the Greek race is a separate, one of the most ancient races, but they have become intermixed, over the centuries, like other ancient races, because of population movements, due to war, primarily in the past, and in modern times, due to immigration. The modern Greeks still have distinctive cultural characteristics, such as the Greek language and the Greek Orthodox religion, which sustained the Greeks during the four centuries of Ottoman occupation. People may also find distinct to other Mediterranean people Greek racial characteristics that have survived over the centuries. Based on a twisted notion of the 'Real Greek', connected with political ideology, not race or cultural characteristics, Golden Dawn digs up their target's ancestry. In my case, covering three generations, there are seven (7) Greek ancestors on my father's side, plus one (1), who was an Italian ancestor, my father's grandfather, with the first name Gianni, surname unknown; and eight (8) Greek ancestors on my mother's side. All the Greek ancestors were Christian Orthodox; I do not know about the Italian ancestor, whether he might have been an Italian Jew, since they were persecuted by Italian Catholics at the time my ancestor moved to Greece from the North of Italy and became Hellenicised. Golden Dawn has been losing their sixty-seven (67) appeals and early releases, because of my international work that was very risky, due to the organised crime methods followed in this case and all of Golden Dawn's criminal cases. The pairs: "Panagiotis (Nigiannis)" (b.2003) - "Betty (Nigianni)" (b. 2001); and "Panagiotis" (b. 2004) - "Betty" (b. 2002); were resolved with the local government in Southampton and in Hackney, London, respectively, as well as in Camden and Haringey, London, just recently, spring 2025. This means there are no local government records, including council tax, housing, and social security, records in any of the above names and ages. I note that the "Betty" supposedly born in 2001 and 2002, as well as "Panagiotis", supposedly born in 2003, were adults, 17+, in 2020. With regards to the supposed "Panagiotis", born in 2004, who would be -17 in 2020. In 2021, the previous tax year to 2022, when someone did money laundering into my bank account, none of those would be -17 years old, which is the age threshold for those considered children, whose parents might collect child benefit in the UK. The conversation included in this exposition took place during the period Golden Dawn was prosecuted in the Greek High Courts of Justice (Areios Pagos). I was living in Athens at the time, from the summer of 2015 and remained in Athens until 2017, during the period of the second SYRIZA government, elected previously for the first time in Greek politics, which was historic on its own. Despite the fact that they were frightened, many non-EU immigrants to Greece provided testimonies in the courts during that same period. Manolis Glezos was the only Greek politician, who went to visit Magda Fyssa, Pavlos' mother, a simple seamstress, in the Greek courts. For Pavlos Fyssas, aka Killah P; assassinated at age 34. For Alain Badiou, a communist-Maoist political philosopher, and the OP. For the abducted Albanian and of Albanian ethnicity immigrants. For the Italian and Greek abducted. For Michalis Katsouris; assassinated at age 29. For the "Other Greek Left". For Chantal Akerman, deceased 2015 in Paris, France. Thanks to the Albanian embassy in London, the General Directorate of the State's Police in Tirane: some still call it "communist" police, though I must admit I didn't liaise with any Albanian police officers that appeared remotely communist - in my view, it's just not neo-liberalised - as well as the Durres police, mentioning I am not tax subject in Albania, and the Durres prosecutor, who took my case in autumn 2024. Thanks to Edi Rama and his Socialist Party, a coalition of left-wing parties, the government, for all the work that was done in the summer of 2024, during my first ever visit to Albania; they offered me an informal political asylum, based on my case that Rama's government found critical. Thanks to the Norwegian Labour Party of Jonas Ghar Store and left-wing coalition government; they offered me formal political asylum and a settlement with my Greek passport, since Norway is in Schengen. They also settled financially four fake Albanian passports with Albania. Thanks to Skopje police and Prishtine police; as well as to the newly elected, after my visit, Socialist Party in North Macedonia. Thanks to the Italian police at Bari. Last but not least: thanks to the Greek police chief, Marinos Stagakis, and the Greek police organised crime division, specifically Ioannis Papakostas, who spoke to me on the phone in the summer of 2022, offering a starting point. Thanks to the Swedish London embassy and the Norwegian London embassy that confirmed the identified and reported NRM male membership. Thanks to the US London embassy that came in late, in the summer of 2024; the work probably hasn't finished, although counterfeit were removed; the Chantal Akerman connection to the case is the link to the US, where the late filmmaker lived and worked as an academic. Thanks to the Oslo Greek embassy, autumn 2024, for handling my application for my new Greek passport within a short time frame. Thanks to the French police, autumn 2024. THANKS to the Swedish police, autumn 2024. Warmest thanks to the French police in Paris, 5 and 6 arrondisements, April and update in May 2025 (Gare du Nord police was disappointing with a robbery of my rucksack and laptop). Finally, thanks to the exceptionally few (counting on one hand) Met police officers, who eventually figured it out, as well as those British, such as the current British prime minister, Keir Starmer, since 2023, which is when I first got to know of him, by researching his profile online - special thanks, since we have never met, however his work has not finished yet, having inherited three years at least of inefficient, stop-and-start, public administration. Other British, working behind the scenes for the last three or more years; no one is flawless, keep it up. More recently, thanks to others, international, from Albania, Germany, Sweden and Norway. It would not have been possible without them. It has been a long process with many obstacles along the way, seemingly insurmountable, but as proven not. This hasn't finished yet, but I am optimistic there will be an end to it. For peace and for safeguarding democracy and everything that comes with it. Investigatory research on Golden Dawn and international affiliates, with legal and political activism, surrounded by artworks, 2016-2025. The text is written like a very long rap song. References: Fred C. Abrahams, "Modern Albania: From Dictatorship to Democracy in Europe", New York: New York University Press, 2015. Kyriakos Katzourakis, "O Dromos Pros Ti Dysi" (The Way to the West), 2001. Counterextremism Project, "Violent, Right-wing Extremism and Terrorism - Transnational Connectivity, Definitions, Incidents, Structures and Countermeasures", November 2020, available online. Barry Cox, John Shirley and Martin Short, "The Fall of Scotland Yard", London: Penguin Books, 1977. Havard Bustnes, "Golden Dawn Girls" ("Hatets Vugge", "Hate's Cradle"), 2017: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7690522/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Ian_Tomlinson https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/satanic-beliefs-criminal-actions https://www.middlebury.edu/institute/ctec-publications-0/dangerous-organizations-and-bad-actors-nordic-resistance-movement See also exposition "The Loot", under 'Art and Activism Exposed as Research Blog'.

50 A3 drawings black and coloured markers, including: 3 A3 collages on paper with newspaper cutouts and printed photos. 12 A4 drawings on paper with coloured markers, glued on A3 paper + 1 A3 with black ballpoint pen and markers, glued on A3 paper. 13 A3 drawings on paper with black marker, and red, pale blue, gold, pink and orange markers +1 A3 two-sided. 17 A3 drawings on paper with coloured markers. 1 drawing on sketchbook cover with red nail polish. 1 text drawing on sketchbook cover inside. 1 drawing on sketchbook cover back inside with black, orange and gold markers. 22 A4 drawings with ballpoint pen. 59 pocket sketchbook black marker and ballpoint pen drawings. Some of the above is preparatory work for 4 large prints and 13 paintings. The 12 A4 glued on A3 are preparatory work for a collage on panel. I made the art between 2023-2024, from the perspective of the observer. Most of the research material came out of crime and fraud reports. I started writing the blog afterwards, since the summer of 2024. I adopted the visual vocabulary of the graphic novel, which I partly studied and read a lot about, looking at different graphic artists' work, when I was attending classes at the University of Malmo, Sweden, in 2012, to familiarise myself with elements of game design. Much of this work is, amongst other, about children. I wanted to emphasise that, by intentionally applying stylistic elements from children's drawings, in a naive and loose architectural composition, using heavily the black marker and stick figures. Adopting this visual approach, I also wanted to evoke a comically sharp twist, as satirical comment, in the British tradition of political satire, to the otherwise dark subject matter. Finally, the artistic style refers to the populist character of actors, mainly far right of the XRW, but also others. The text is written like a trip-hop song. I use heavily popular culture signifiers, names of fictional characters from film, television, music and painting, as reference to actual individuals. Parts of the analysis is inspired by Saul Kripke's interpretation of Wittgenstein's example of mathematical calculation. I used plenty of popular and less popular literary and philosophical references, for the visual art and in the writing. Saul Aaron Kripke was the inventor of the possible worlds philosophical hypothesis, which was seminal for philosophers working in the area of contemporary analytic metaphysics, including the theory of counterparts and the theory of names. He died in 2022. Lauren Berlant was a cultural theorist and gender studies scholar. She died in 2021. The exposition is underpinned by an underlying Marxist interpretation that, in my view, is relevant not just to economists and political philosophers, but also to people working in different sectors of our modern economies of advanced capitalism, such as banking and cybersecurity. In the style of art, I was inspired by Jean-Michel Basquiat's drawings and paintings, which are laden with input from popular media sources, like jazz music and television, recorded in an automatic and naive drawing manner, turned into abstracted paintings. For Nikos ('Rama', 'Mr X'), Filip ('Philip'), and Brandon - August, September, and October 2024. For "Daddy G", 'Eric' ("Her Man") and 'Prudence' ("Georgie's Beau", or "Her Man's alter-ego") - December 2024, January 2025, May 2025. Who are not politicians, but are doing something political, so they must take care. See also exposition "The Loot", under 'Art and Activism Exposed as Research Blog'.

This exposition contains the documentation of Espen Aalberg´s artistic research project “Eastern Rebellion - with gamelan as inspiration for new musical expressions" "Eastern Rebellion - with gamelan as inspiration for new musical expressions" is focusing on a meeting point where Aalberg, as a musician and composer, has searched for inspiration in gamelan music, instruments, and concepts. Aalberg has a broad practice as a performer and composer/music creator with a professional career in both jazz and classical-contemporary direction. This experience, in collaboration with inspiration and instruments from gamelan, will be illuminated in different musical expressions and contexts.

"Expanding horizons" is an Artistic research project carried out between 2021 (August) and 2024 (November) at NTNU, Trondheim. The objectives were to contribute to knowledge on how different kinds of departure points can be useful for musicians when approaching 20th-century Western classical music through improvisation, an understanding of how one can navigate and negotiate the musical language of this repertoire, and insights into how the tension between different performance values can be navigated in this process. The research questions were: When applying improvisation to works of 20th-century classical music, 1. What role does the choice and preparation of musical representations play? 2. How can we navigate and negotiate musical structures such as melody, harmony and form? 3. How can we navigate the tension between fidelity to the work and creative expression? Based on selected pieces from this repertoire and practical explorations together with participating musicians, various approaches to creating improvisational frameworks were then explored. These included a wide range of scores, including lead sheets and indeterminate notation, as well as ear-based methods. From the perspective of integrating improvisation into the performances, approaches such as repeating elements, working with layers, creating transitions, and introducing open sections were examined. A key point was to use melodic material as a way of building strong connections with the source material, rather than relying on harmonic representations of the music. In terms of balancing respect for the original work with creative freedom, a “healthy dose of disrespect” pervaded much of the explorations, allowing deviations from the originals when they were musically justified. Throughout the work processes, an idea of focal points emerged, as aspects to focus on when reworking a classical work into an improvisational version. These focal points included the score, historical and performative contexts, expressive qualities, and the improviser’s personal voice.

By experimenting with the use of artificial intelligence and collaborative storytelling in public engagement with sustainability challenges, the Futuring Together group, through an interactive installation "Playing Future Narratives" at Artistic Research Week 2024 (22nd - 27th October 2024) at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, explored how AI-enhanced collaborative narrative creation augmented with a visual essay could facilitate understanding of energy transition futures in Trondheim, Norway. The installation utilized ScenSyn, a multiplayer interactive storytelling system combining AI-assisted narrative generation with human creativity, together with a visual essay highlighting the complexities and contradictions inherent in the energy transition. The project provided an opportunity to test how AI-enhanced collaborative storytelling might offer unique opportunities for exploring complex societal transitions and raised important questions about the role of artificial intelligence in creative processes and public discourse.