Artist Statement

I am an intermedia artist: my artistic work is interdisciplinary, crossing over sound art, video art, movement, performance, and installation. My artistic practice is collaborative: I collaborate with artists, non-human bodies, spaces, and sounds around me. I am interested in the concept of agency and intra-action in improvisational practices and creating opportunities that hold complex entanglements between bodies, spaces, and multi-sensory experiences. 

My artistic process is deeply informed by both the Deep Listening practice developed by Pauline Oliveros as well as feminist queer methodologies. As a queer and migrant artist, the constant tension of being “in-between” spaces, between being “disoriented" and “oriented” has been a question in my consciousness and I am drawn to explore strategies to re-produce this conflict in my work. I am interested in exploring queer utopias in audiovisual practice and examining the concepts of dis/orientation (Sara Ahmed), agential realism (Karen Barad), and queer futurity (José Esteban Muñoz). The insights and theories that inform my work are gained through the practice itself––where the subject (I) and object (my research and collaborative practice) are entangled in phenomena. In other words, my embodied and intuitive practice lead me to the theories that I want to be in conversation with, and in return, those theories inform my practice of making.

I frame my improvisational practice as a diffractive practice: my collaborators and I read/listen to each other in a relational way, looking for creative and unexpected provocations. We entangle, engage, and change within each other. Those relations are not static, rather, they are active and they are performative.