I am interested in experiential research as a form of intuitive knowledge; radical and collective intimacies as a form of resistance; and performance as experimental and social processes that yield acute and sensitive information about the increasingly disenfranchised ways in which we chose to live our lives. 

Look Up! 

My work revolves around themes of Feral Tenderness, using extended voicework and improvisational structures to weave in and out of musical and theatrical languages. These actions may take place in both public and private spaces. I utilize the Poetic Image as a Musical Score, a concept taken from Hijikata’s vision of abstract, visceral and sensorial poetic images as powerful motivators for movement and expression– applied to the space (sweet crevice) existing between sound and music: the spoken and sung voice, and allowing for audiences to join in the chant/chatter, or simply watch as the semantic meaning of words is slowly dismantled and replaced by that of tonal or melodic languages, languages, la-nguages, lan-guages, langua-ges, lan-gu-a-ges, la-ng-uag-e-s. 

Lastly (?) I am interested in the active/passive nature of an audience as witness: 

the gaze as an action. 

How does this witnessing differ from college gallery to public gallery to music venue to public space: who is complicit in the work, and how? 

With the help of my violin, simple percussion and minimal electronic elements, I create choreographies and improvisational structures which bend language to emphasize its melodicities and incongruencies: slipperiness and sharpness. As in all life, Absurdity is everpresent. Along with the open-ness to determine the (lack of) meaning present in any poetic action, and allowing for substance to emerge elsewhere in the body: heart or bowel. 

Join in collective catharsis, or allow yourself to be swallowed by your own inhibitions, both merit examination and re-clamation. The silent scream is as potent as the breaching one.