ABOUT

Working across performance, sound, film, sculpture and text, I have a research-based practice that focuses on creating, dreaming, imagining embodied connection, coming back from dissociation. Recently, I have been exploring strong, soft, embodied sonic disruption as a way of challenging/queering dissociative, violent power hierarchies. The work takes place in universities (usually for Architecture/Fine Art/Social Practice/Sound courses), schools (mostly specialist SEND community schools), charities (often focused on disability justice and access), galleries, and in everyday spaces such as train stations, car parks, shopping centres, parks, libraries.

The work I do is inspired by and connected to work by artists, teachers, theorists, activists, usually within the areas of sound, performance art, liberatory pedagogies, disability justice, play. These include: bell hooks, Mia Mingus, Paolo Freire, Stuart Lester, Tehching Hsieh, Pauline Oliveros, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Lygia Pape, Lygia Clark, Angela Davis, Marginal Consort, Trisha Brown, Alice Wong, Lama Rod Owens, Joanna Grace, Stefanie Kaufman, Judith Butler. Other current research interests: death work.