Artist Statement

I craft participatory projects, actions and experiences. I use play, hands-on collaboration, story-sharing and visual art to interrupt everyday paradigms, catalyze imaginations, and cultivate fresh narratives towards a world where more of us can thrive. 

My fascination with public space and collective activity stems from growing up in Montreal, Canada—a dense city with excellent transit, a vibrant street life and a little thing called socialized medicine. Then I moved to San Francisco during the height of the AIDS epidemic, and learned lifelong queer punk lessons in the power of culture to build liberatory responses to the dominant narrative. I know that cultural intervention can happen in a gallery, but I’d rather practice it in the streets, in community spaces, around kitchen tables, and in the weak points of hostile systems.

My most recent work explores absurdity, embodiment, and intimacy as foundations for resilience, creative subterfuge, and action—cultivating social and ideological mutations in urgent times.

I talk more in depth about my creative research on art, play and crisis in my MFA grad talk.