Artist talk by Dr. Trevor Borg
The Department of Performing and Digital Arts (DPDA) of the University of the Peloponnese welcomes Dr. Trevor Borg, artist and Head of the Department of Digital Arts - University of Malta, as part of the ERASMUS+, with an artist talk on Wednesday 19 March 2025 6.15pm, at SPACE9 (FOUGARO ARTCENTER).
The event is organized by the Department's faculty members, Vasilis Psarras and Athina Stourna.
The talk will be held in English.
a few words about the talk
Reading Place: Unfolding Layers Through Artistic Enquiry
Trevor Borg’s artistic practice engages with place as a dynamic and multilayered construct, shaped by time, history, and perception. In Reading Place: Unfolding Layers Through Artistic Inquiry, he explores how art can function as a mode of exploration, uncovering the hidden narratives, histories, and ecologies of place, and at the same time creating new ones. Through processes of walking, collecting, and reinterpreting, Borg approaches place as both material and concept, allowing its qualities and resonances to inform his artistic interventions. This talk examines how layered meanings emerge through artistic engagement with place, questioning how place is experienced, represented, and contested. By treating place as something to be read and rewritten, Borg’s work interrogates the intersections between the tangible and the ephemeral, presence and absence, and personal encounters and collective history.
Trevor Borg
Trevor Borg (PhD - University of Leeds, UK) is a multi-disciplinary artist, curator, and academic. His practice traverses place and space, delves into ambiguous territory, and oscillates between the poetic and the political. Borg’ s work spans a wide range of media from drawing, painting and sculpture to film and installations. His work has been shown in a number of prestigious venues worldwide including the Venice Biennale 2019, Beijing International Art Biennale 2022, London Design Biennale 2023, European Parliament (Brussels, Belgium), Spazju Kreattiv (Valletta, Malta), National Museum of Art (Valletta, Malta) National Library (Valletta, Malta), Manoel Theatre (Valetta, Malta), Malta Society of Arts (Valletta, Malta), Wignacourt Museum (Rabat, Malta), Oil Mill (Kalavasos, Cyprus), University of Leeds (UK), Sheffield Institute of Arts (UK), NRW- Forum (Dusseldorf, Germany), Stadsschouwburg De Harmonie Leeuwarden (The Netherlands), Villa Claudia Feldkirch (Austria, Vienna), Tetley Gallery Leeds (UK), Museu Arxiu de Montblanc (Spain), Museum voor Moderne Kunst (Oostende, Belgium), Kunsthalle (Mannheim, Germany), MKM Museum Küppersmühle (Duisburg, Germany), Künstlerhaus (Vienna, Austria), Malta Biennale 2024 (Valletta, Malta) and the Carbon Tierra Biennale 2024 (Ptolemaida, Greece). Trevor Borg is Head of Department of Digital Arts at the University of Malta, a member of the creative practice-led research network LAND2 (UK), and an associate at Cut Contemporary Fine Arts Lab at Cyprus University of Technology. He curated various exhibitions including Contemporary Inside 2018, Shifting Contexts I, II, III, and authored a number of articles and academic papers.
