Research.
MY WORK.
My artistic research explores perceptions of ecologies, and what it means to perform with the non-human. I am currently an Assistant Professor in the Theater & Performance department at Concordia University, with a focus on Ecology & Performance Design. Please see my Artist Statement for an overview.
My work has been published in the Journal for Artistic Research, Performance Philosophy, World Futures, and the Unlikely Journal for the Creative Arts, I have previously been a writer for inhabitat.com and culturebot.org, and was formerly a convener for Performance Philosophy, where I acted as an occasional peer reviewer.
I am currently one of the editors of the Center for Sustainable Practice in the Arts Quarterly, the Creative Works editor for interconnections journal of posthumanism, and have created books on past artistic projects for Candor Arts and Routledge.
Below are a smattering of posts related to my research and teaching: for an updated list of publications, a bibliography of reviewed works, or a current Statement of Teaching Philosophy, please contact me .
Here’s what I’m reading lately.
- Pulse: Entanglements of air and light in pandemic academia (2021)
- Breath^Work (2022)
- Blind Spots (2022)
- Performing Resilience for Systemic Pain (2022)
- Terms that Serve Us (2021)
- Systems of Pain/Networks of Resilience (Nebraska) (interconnections) (2021)
- I.D. Performative Collective (2021)
- Unitled (Hinkley) in UNAFRAID (2021)
- A Lab for Apologies and Forgiveness / Candor Arts (2021)
- Performing Public Health (2020)
- CSPA Q29: Silence (2020)
- Systems of Pain/Networks of Resilience (Moment 2) (World Futures) (2020)
- The Artist as Facilitator: being present with & loving the unknown (2019)
- CSPA Q22: The Unknown and Uncertain (2018)
- CSPA Q20: Self-Care (2018)
- CSPA Q17: Sense and Sensuality (2017)
- Elements of Multimedia (2023-)
- Designing for Public Performance (2023)
- Introduction to Scenography (2022-)
- CSPA Q15: Hyperobjects (2016)
STUDENT WORK.
Universities are part of the legacy of colonialism. This legacy includes violent patriarchal, speciesist, misogynist and homophobic research traditions and cultures. I strive for rigor in both my teaching and research while pushing disciplinary boundaries and norms, in part to disrupt these legacies.
In all aspects of my work, I personally strive to unlearn white supremacy and internalized hegemonies. That is: I try not to be an asshole to others and myself. I hold my colleagues and students humanely accountable, and expect to be held accountable in turn. I say this explicitly because academia enables a cruel hypocrisy that believes itself to be rigor: an ability to isolate our values to that which is codified by the institution. My research parameters require I continually examine my own behavior in their context, and facilitate difficult conversations amongst my students when our collective prejudices emerge.
Pedagogically, I specialize in contemporary foundations and time-based media (including performance, video, sound etc) as well as explorations of technology, site, sustainability, bodies, identities, ecologies and the non-human. I thrive on supporting students in finding their own voices, regardless of medium, process or context. I have taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Grand Valley State University, the University of Florida, and Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec.
- Elements of Multimedia (2023-)
- Designing for Public Performance (2023)
- Introduction to Scenography (2022-)
- Workshop for Artistic Research and Practice (2019-2022)
- Interactive Studio (2017-18)
- Time Studio (2016-19)
- Making and Meaning (2016-19)
- Introduction to Performance (2015)







































