Research.
My artistic research explores perceptions of ecologies, and what it means to perform with the non-human. I am currently an Interdisciplinary Studio Art Lecturer at the University of Florida, where I am affiliated faculty with the Center for Arts in Medicine and the Center for Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies Research. Please see my Artist Statement for an overview.
Universities are legacies of colonialism. This legacy includes violent patriarchal, speciesist, misogynist and homophobic research traditions and cultures. I strive for rigor in my work while pushing disciplinary boundaries and norms, in part to disrupt these legacies.
Parallel to my formal research, I personally work to unlearn white supremacy and internalized hegemonies. That is: I try not to be an asshole to others and myself. I hold my colleagues 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 our formal work. My research parameters require I continually examine my own behavior in their context.
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, culturebot.org and other sites.
I am currently one of the editors of the Center for Sustainable Practice in the Arts Quarterly, and a core convener for Performance Philosophy, and am developing books on past artistic projects for Candor Arts and Routledge.
Below are a smattering of posts related to my research: for an updated list of publications, a bibliography of reviewed works, or a current Statement of Teaching Philosophy, please contact me .
- 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)
- CSPA Q15: Hyperobjects (2016)
- CSPA Q14: Cultural Vibrancy (2016)
- Review of SoilCulture (2016)
- CSPA Q13: On Social Equity (2016)
- First Annual Moscow Science Art Conference (2012)
- CSPA REPORT: Sustainability in Theater (2012)
- A + E Conference at the Nevada Museum of Art (2011)
- Considering Sustainable Design @ PQ (2011)
- Artport: 2 Degrees of Separation (2011)
- Healthy Parks, Healthy People conference. (2011)
- COP 16 Coverage from Cancun, Mexico (2010)
- I’ve been writing for Culturebot. (2010-2014)
- “Good Fix” at Green Stage Scratch Night (2010)