Margaret Tilk

Civic activism is accompanied by a perceived boundary of despicability or shame, which influences whether and how individuals dare to intervene in public space. Margaret Tilk proposes a workshop format inviting participants to reflect on and diffract with their experiences of activism, or with the lack of it, and explore their personal boundaries in relation to using their body as a tool for social and environmental justice. She has developed a process positioned in-between activism and non-activism that supports participation in activism at individual and interindividual level. Tilk is investigating which design and artistic intervention strategies help to reveal and, if possible, expand one’s internal boundaries of social shame and despicability in public space.

About

Margaret Tilk (1999) is a young artist-researcher born in Estonia and raised in Finland, who is currently interested in the role of the body in activism, the interweaving of sociology and art, and posthumanist feminism. Tilk has obtained a master’s degree in cultural sociology at KU Leuven in Belgium, a bachelor’s degree in semiotics at the University of Tartu. At the moment she is studying social design at the master`s program of the Estonian Academy of Arts and is a member of The Young Contemporary Art Association (ENKKL). In addition, she is working as an editor of the feminist online magazine Feministeerium and as the creative director of the 2026 Tallinn Feminist Forum. Tilk has written essays, reviews and articles, curated, produced and conceptualized