My artistic practice explores the mediation of bodies and movement through performance, installation, and video. Working across live, live-streamed, durational, and one-to-one formats, I create situations in which perception shifts with our position, attention, and access to mediated representations. Surveillance and biomedical technologies become materials for exploring intimacy and the limits of bodily measurement and control.
Since 2013, I have collaborated with composer and computer scientist John MacCallum, now working as Friction Field Collaborative. Our work includes III, a series of performance-installations exploring the materiality and musicality of the heart, and Im/mediations, which investigates how we exist together in mediated and virtual contexts. My recent practice extends these inquiries into synthetic media through experiments with AI-generated movement.
Artistic Works:
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2023
III: Once Replete · 6 h
Durational performance beneath plaster casts onto which video from Once Returned is projected; heartbeats sonified live. SomoS Art Gallery, Berlin.
2022
Im/mediations: 9x9x9
Nine live-streamed 90-minute solos, nine performers, nine cameras, click-track score. Atelier III, Berlin.
2022
III: Regard · 7′
Video; three performers in extreme close-up, three cameras each. Created in residence at Experimental Film Virginia, USA.
2022
III: Once Returned · 72 h
A six-hour choreography repeated twelve times without stopping, live-streamed from a 12-camera array with live audio from two ECGs. Atelier III, Berlin.
2021
Im/mediations: REMAINS · 15′
Solo with live electronics, set within a nine-camera surveillance system. Live-streamed premiere, Lake Studios Berlin, December 2021.
2021
Im/mediations: VOID · 15′
Video and spoken-word composition. Live-streamed premiere, Lake Studios Berlin, December 2021.
2021
Im/mediations: IDLE · 12 h
Forty one-on-one online encounters in silence and stillness. Live-streamed premiere, Lake Studios Berlin, December 2021.
2020
III: Once Removed · 10′ stage / 30′ installation
Duet with heart-rate sensors and video projection, premiered at the FORUM gala, HfMT Hamburg; installation version with a dissected heart, Petersburg Art Space, Berlin.
2018
III: Circulation · 30′
Three dancers wearing ECGs, with video and live electronics, for three guests at a time. Created in residence at C-DaRE, Coventry; Lake Studios Berlin.
2018
III: Portraits · 18′
Two short films shown simultaneously. Lake Studios Berlin; Synthesis Center, Arizona State University.
2017
III: Tangente · 30′
Three musicians, three dancers wearing ECGs, three breathers. Created in residence at Tangente Danse, Montreal.
2016
III: Cœur de cochon · 7.5′
Short film. Weisslich 10, London; Lake Studios Berlin; Synthesis Center, Arizona State University.
2016
III: Respire · 10′
Three breathers; sonic and haptic installation. Created in residence at Djerassi, California; Weisslich 10, London; Lake Studios Berlin.
2015
Synchronism · 3–4 h
One-on-one performance, sound installation and sound sculpture. SummerWorks Festival, Toronto; Arsenal Gallery, Montreal.
2012–2015
Experience #1167 · 15′
Solo in an interactive video and sound installation. Tangente / Monument-National, Montreal; Hemispheric Institute Encuentro, Montreal; Rapid Pulse, Chicago; ReNew Digital Arts Festival, Copenhagen; EMMA Lab, Columbus.
2013
Dirt: cyber solo · 10′
Live-streamed solo. TimeWave International Festival, London.
2013
X: Kinect, 10′
Interactive sound design by Adrian Freed and John MacCallum. ReNew Digital Arts Festival, Copenhagen (2013); CNMAT, UC Berkeley (2012).
Additional Works
2013
Beneath the pavement, an ocean · intermedia dance, group, 25′
Spectrum Dance Faculty Concert, Sam Houston State University, Texas (2013); Hexagram Black Box, Concordia University, Montreal (2012).
2012
Retrace, Reroute, Replace · contemporary dance, solo, 12′
Series 808 Choreographic Performance Workshop, Toronto; Experimental Media & Movement Arts Lab, Columbus.
2011
Gently between us · multimedia dance, quartet, 25′
Media design by Shawn Hove; sound design by Tristin Seufert. Sullivant Hall Theater, Columbus.
2010
Exposure · multimedia dance-theatre for ten performers, 30′
Sullivant Hall Theater, Columbus.
2009
The Muse · contemporary dance, solo, 10′, to a poem by E. E. Cummings
Columbus Dances X Festival (2009); Cedarvale Ravine, Toronto (2008).
2009
After the Rain · site-specific dance, duet, 10′
Sullivant Hall Theater, Columbus (2009); Cedarvale Ravine, Toronto (2008).
2008
Gust · contemporary dance, solo, 10′
Original music by Cassie Norton & The Incredibly Clever Flying String Quartet. Guelph Contemporary Dance Festival (2008); Hemispheric Institute Encuentro, Buenos Aires (2007); Montreal Fringe Festival, Tangente (2007).
2007
Exit Logic · contemporary dance, duet, 15′
Studio 303 Vernissage-Danse, Montreal; Series 808 Choreographic Performance Workshop, Toronto; Montreal Fringe Festival, Tangente.
2007
Just Friends · contemporary dance, duet, 6′
Choreographed with Stéphane Gladyszewski. Guelph Contemporary Dance Festival (2007); Toronto International Dance Festival (2006).
2006
Upstream · contemporary dance, trio, 15′
Vue sur la Relève Festival, Montreal (2006); Montreal Fringe Festival (2006); Studio 303 independent production, Montreal (2005); Toronto International Dance Festival (2005).