Pulling from a practice rooted in modern dance and sculpture, I create installations that examine the perception of progress, ownership, displacement, and the potential of a body destabilized. Recent inquiries have focused on cumulative structures influencing environmental instability – political ecology’s pursuit of critical natural assets, political economy’s increasing governance of bodies, and the paradoxical relationship between Polar and Space exploration amid climate collapse.
The projects submitted for consideration are collisions of current and historical data, merging visuals from Polar and Space expeditions, survey and mining equipment, territorial markers, speculative technologies, and waste. Utilizing interdisciplinary practices spanning sculpture, digital fabrication, photography, and video, they explore the cascading effects of the Anthropocene in abundant compositions that posit the illusion of plenty. Utilizing industrial materials to reference the increased competition for natural resources, they question the idea of progress, the built environment, and their impact on vulnerable ecosystems.
Simultaneously, these projects defy logic, showing patterns and anomalies that do not align with our current understanding of physics and the natural world. Physical and sensory illusions, those in which the body and objects appear displaced, are employed. Collectively, they envision a threshold between accelerating worlds – a moment of equilibrium offering generative potential.