Sandra Sara Raes Oklobdzija

Sandra Sara Raes Oklobdzija holds a PhD in the Arts (RITCS/VUB), titled The Self in the Otherness. From bureaucracy to performance – an artistic epistemology: two-sided integration and possible worlds. She is a Serbian artist, artivist, and philosopher, based in Brussels since 2012. Her work explores the complex web of migration and integration, with a particular focus on (collective) identity and (mis)representations. She combines her artistic practice (ROBIN vzw) with a position as a theory lecturer at RITCS and her engagement as a community builder, programme maker, and cultural entrepreneur (KOROW vzw). Her PhD project was supervised by Free De Backer (VUB), Klaas Tindemans (VUB-EhB), and Sarah Vanhee (artistic supervisor).