Leigh Kotsilidis is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, and researcher whose work explores the entanglements of science, art, and environmental perception in the Anthropocene. She is currently a PhD student in the Individualized program (INDI) at Concordia University under the supervision of Florian Grond, Darren Wershler, and Alice Jarry. Central to her PhD research is Mobilizing Knowledge-Making Networks in the Anthropocene (MK-MN-A), a research-creation project that investigates how scientific knowledge about climate change is constructed, communicated, and experienced across human and more-than-human scales.
Blending methodologies from Art/Science and Technology Studies (A/STS), Sensory Studies, and ecopoetics, MK-MN-A engages with the social and sensory dimensions of climate science. Kotsilidis’s forthcoming ecopoetic text, Some of Us May Live (Coach House Books, 2026), serves as both inspiration and artifact in a speculative and multi-sensory museum-lab installation designed to rethink ecological responsibility and climate entanglement.
Through MK-MN-A, Kotsilidis reinterprets scientific rhetoric via poetic practice, conducts ethnographic research in climate science labs, and stages multisensory assemblages of Anthropocenic objects. Drawing on theoretical frameworks such as Actor-Network Theory, sensory ethnography, and vital materialism, her work intends to challenge anthropocentric paradigms and make space for transdisciplinary, collective responses to environmental crisis.
Kotsilidis’s research-creation practice foregrounds collaboration, speculative design, and embodied knowledge-making, with the goal of transforming abstract climate data into relational experiences that foster awareness, accountability, and action.
Kotsilidis holds an Honours BA in Anthropology and Creative Writing from York University and an MFA in Studio Arts: Intermedia from Concordia University. She has published two books of poetry, both with Coach House Books, Hypotheticals (2011) and Some of Us May Live (forthcoming, 2026); and her solo and collaborative artworks have been presented in Montreal, Toronto, San Francisco, Basel, and Paris. She lives and works in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory.
