Marija Nemcenko is a Lithuanian researcher and multidisciplinary artist with a practice in archival material, film, installation, creative and critical writing, and projects connecting socially engaged art to civic life. Her multilayered practice aims to activate the interlinks between migration, nature, and nation-states, while critically attending to the construct of a ‘periphery‘ especially when concerning CEE and SWANA geographies.

Marija is currently in the first phase of her practice-based PhD research “In the search for allies: geocultural ties between Baltic and Levantine regions in and through experimental cinema” at Vilnius Art Academy in Lithuania.  The project’s primary objective is to explore, through practice and theory, the potential of experimental cinema for social change within Baltic and Levantine regions and to re-establish a visual cinematic language between them while paying particular attention to the land practices that oppose exploitative, extractivist, capitalist, and geopolitical logics. Emphasizing the concept of 'geocultures' or rather ‘geophilosophy,’ as articulated by philosopher Oxana Timofeeva, I aim to focus on ‘eco-cultural’ subjects such as attachment to the land, street markets, crafts, modes of rural labor, and permaculture as expressed through the moving image works as tools for connectivity.