creative labor is inseparable from daily life — making, moving, gathering, building and resting are acts of resistance, ritual and connection. as a multiform conceptual artist, curator, lecturer and labor leader, i approach art as a site of inquiry and invitation. my interdisciplinary, multi-modal practice creates spaces for reflection, participation and collective transformation.
working consistently since 1996 is its own durational project. the work outlasts its contexts, its funding, its audiences, its institutions. i keep building even when the structures didn’t recognize what is being built. my medium is continuity. installation, light, space, performance, pedagogy, writing — these are its forms. the conditions under which relation, care and shared time persist.
i work across a variety of media, determined by a response to a specific location or collaboration. i begin with what is nearby, what is discarded, what is forgotten. simple gestures become resounding movements — the ambient and found become meditative hums. the studio is both sanctuary and staging ground — a space to hold complexity, attend to what is unseen and move at the pace of care.
my process is relational and unfolds over time. i collaborate with others in quiet ways — through shared reading, conversation, co-making or simply being present together. trust is built slowly, shaped by attention, repetition and care. i respond to context — not just place, but who gathers, who leaves, what histories linger and what possibilities take root. these relationships shape the work as much as any material. performance enters as ritual — often unspectacular, slow or incomplete — centering everyday labor as a meaningful, visible process. authorship is fluid. roles blur. power shifts in the act of showing up, listening and making space for one another.
through installation and site-responsive gestures, i interrupt the everyday just enough to open space — to notice, to remember, to reimagine. these moments are about proximity, reorienting attention and building subtle shifts that ripple onward. each project is a proposition — a temporary structure for rethinking how we gather, move and build together. what i am building — have been building — is not only a body of work. it is a set of parallel structures: reading ecosystems, pedagogical frameworks, durational practices, community agreements, collective rituals, spaces where care is the operating logic and time moves differently. these are alternatives — fragile, underfunded, sometimes invisible, always ongoing.
this is about imagining something otherwise — and practicing it now, together, with urgency and intention. each project builds on the last, forming a sustained commitment to participation, agency and the collective work of making new ways possible. the work is an invitation. you do not have to wait for permission. you can begin with what is nearby, what is discarded, what is forgotten — and build from there. because transformation is not a theory — it is a practice.
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