The InBetween Collective is a space for ideas to sprawl and spawn. We understand that every thought emerges from a context and that every voice is political. The InBetween Collective therefore aims to inform, politicise and bring forth change through knowledge-sharing. Together, we will read, listen, take in, scrutinise, question, create, share, collaborate.
We do this by picking a thematic topic which will serve as the focal point of our collective for several weeks. Through workshops, book clubs, a podcast, articles, and more, we will explore the topic through different lenses. Our last theme left us asking, how is art used to retrieve what was lost, to recover what was destroyed, and to reclaim what was once ours?
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Karma Abudagga
COFOUNDER
Karma is an artist, researcher and curator from Gaza, Palestine, currently based in Offenbach/Frankfurt. As a researcher, Karma is exploring sites of reclamation and future-making practices. As an organising member of the Palestinian Sound Archive, she is dedicated to decolonial storytelling, hosting listening sessions and workshops on the archive as a site of resistance to colonial erasure. As an artist, Karma is experimenting with sound, whether it is through percussive-heavy songs on the dancefloor or intimate listening sessions, as well with word, whether it be a poem, a piece of prose, or an essay. As for curating, it is her love for bringing people together that led her to this medium. Check out some of her work here.
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Meg Elliot
COFOUNDER
Meg is a writer, zine-maker, and mountain biker from the border of North Wales, UK. She is fascinated by story, folklore, and the way memory lives in landscapes. Meg co-creates -scaef, a zine exploring nature through art and writing. She is currently making a podcast on the way our identities are formed by stories and sites for BBC Sounds.
Meg’s interest in podcasting, writing, and interviewing is driven by a love of people; a drive to understand how we become who we are, and the legacies we leave behind. She loves writing, editing and supporting people to make projects they’re proud of – she’s always up for a chat so drop her a message on Discord to talk anything from life, project ideas to editing support. <3
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Victoria Kreikle
Victoria Kreikle is a researcher and curator at the intersection of art, science, and technology and an organizing director of the Collective. Victoria’s work explores the nuances of cultural interaction and technological advancements, informed through her research in Science and Technology Studies. Delving into Science Fiction and Sociotechnical Imaginaries, she explores how these narratives influence and reflect our understanding of technology and society. She is particularly focused on advocating for academic inclusivity, striving to create accessible and supportive spaces for disabled and other marginalized communities within academic and cultural institutions through an intersectional approach. Find out more about her POV here.
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Amanda Oiza Bucknor
Oiza is an artist, musician, and cultural researcher from Germany with Nigerian roots, currently based in Frankfurt and soon in Lisbon. Her work explores urban and decolonial memory studies, migration, social justice, and community-based decolonial practices. She contributes to international conferences and publications, bridging interdisciplinary academic research with community-based praxis.
Oiza expresses her creativity through not only through music and writing, but also in organizing cultural events, curating awareness concepts, and leading workshops. Her passion for bringing people together and creating spaces of care and resistance—particularly for BIPoC* and queer communities—drives her to connect, amplify marginalized voices, and strive for collective healing and empowerment.
RELCAIM EXHIBITION
After months and months of planning, our first ever exhibition took place in December 2022. Thanks to our collaborators and artists, Hartslane was filled with lots of warmth and good conversation. Credits to Ollie Lansdell for capturing these moments.
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Travel Blog by Meg Elliot
Join Meg as she archives her time in New Zealand in this travel blog. Read about her inner and outer journey as she allows herself to be changed.
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Book Club
For our next book club we will be reading Conversations from Calais: Sharing Refugee Stories. Sign up here.
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Inbetween Winter School
Our new studio at Zollamt in Offenbach allows us to finally host in-person workshops! We’d like open up the space to our community, use this form to register your interest in hosting a workshop.
Art Thought - The InBetween Collective, by Sarah Jackman for Poltern
‘Learning together’, ‘creating space’ and ‘sharing ideas’ are the values at the heart of The InBetween Collective. The growing platform is ‘dedicated to fostering critical thinking, community building, and nurturing our creative expression’. Led by two University of Leeds graduates, Megan Elliot and Karma Abudagga, The InBetween Collective is an open platform featuring conversations held over Zoom. Each free zoom session begins with an informal welcome by one of the two creators, avoiding and thawing the online clumsiness endemic to online conversations and fostering connections of the sort we’ve missed over the last year. This atmosphere and ethos of the calls open the space for sharing, listening, and connecting through writing sessions, idea workshops, conversations, and book clubs. During these sessions, conversations remain relaxed but expansive - from discussions of ‘radical love,’ ‘donut economics’ or Claire Denis’s Beau Travail. The collective’s sessions grow organically from one another, from a conversation about Beau Travail to a film screening introduced by a recent member of the collective. This is a sure sign that there are no implicit hierarchies in this collective; it is truly for all to contribute freely, fluidly shaping the collective together. Not only does the platform engage actively online, but the creators also have an InBetween Collective podcast built upon conversations with new creative voices focused on creating inclusive spaces in the fringes; The Girlford Collective, for example, talk about their inclusive skate community, encouraging ‘everyBODY’, particularly minorities within and outside of the community, to skate. The InBetween Collective platform aims to work together to ‘share ideas and inspire conversation,’ rejecting fixed binaries, and it achieves this with ease. The collective feels refreshingly inclusive, creating space for all opinions without judgement whilst still getting gritty with ideas.