How do embodied experiences of individuals within the institution shape institutional practices?

My work centres around voice. I connect with communities of practice and scholarship, such as botany and medicine, where claims of objective knowledge meet lived experiences and community expertise.

I engage embodied methods to facilitate practices and conversations (public forums or intimate settings) with specialists across different knowledge backgrounds. This generates questions around the values placed on different forms of knowledge; the power supported by these values and the hierarchies they produce; and the subjects that become other in these structures.

I access archival objects and materials to situate current thinking within an historical lineage. Institutions invite me to help them reflect on the ways that they co-opt and appropriate knowledge.

My multi-modal approach externalises established norms to support open conversations about embodied personal, professional and institutional experiences. My work aims to create dialogues across audiences and experiences; finished works present in art galleries, community spaces and film festivals, academic contexts and the specialist fields of practice they connect with in production.

I also curate screening programmes, symposiums and assemblies for expanded discussions: The Agent RiA; New Mothers’ Assembly; Say-So; Viewing Voices.