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Christian Sirois

Christian Sirois

HDR Student
UNSW Canberra
School of Science

About

Christian Sirois is a curator, sessional academic, and cultural geography PhD researcher whose work sits at the intersection of contemporary art, cultural production, and geopolitics. His curatorial and concept‑driven research focuses on liminal geographies, cultural practice, and minoritarian identities. He uses ethnographic, creative, and multisensory research methods to examine how cultural production negotiates contested territorial imaginaries shaped by post‑colonial and post‑conflict conditions across the Balkans and the Near East.
Email

c.sirois@unsw.edu.au

Location

Building 22

Previous Study

Christian holds an MA in Arts, Culture and Society from Utrecht University (NL) and a BMus (Hons) from the University of South Wales (UK). Prior to his current role, he worked across curatorial production and cultural research within galleries, cultural institutions, biennales, and festivals, contributing to exhibition development and interdisciplinary cultural projects.

Research Area

Balkans, Post‑colonial and post‑conflict contexts, Curatorial and creative research, Liminal geographies.

Research Outputs

New Geographies of the Image, Royal Geographical Society with the British Institute of Geographers, 2025. (Session)

In Conversation with Denis Butorac, Internal Cultural Displacement and the Photographic Repatriation of Home, Balkanism, 2026.

Cruel Optimism, Exhibition, Canberra Art Biennale, 2024.

Speculative Materialism, Craft + Design Canberra, 2024.

Concepts in Cultural Geography, Curation, edited volume by Ben Anderson & Vickie Zhang, 2026.

Curation as Assemblage: Re signifying the Balkan Imaginary through Artistic Intervention, VERA, Geographical Society of New South Wales, 2025.