I make collaborative, ⁐ collective ⁐ and participatory artworks that experiment with how people negotiate social relationships in a more-than-human world. This work is responsive to specific social and material relationships, and grapples with art’s practical and theoretical engagement with new materialist, multispecies, and ecological thinking. It takes the form of conversational events and collaborative making and performances, among other things. ⁋
HERE'S TO THEE involves experimenting with the ways in which people and microbes come together through cider-making. It takes the conventions of wassailing as its starting point to explore human-nonhuman relationships through a joyful, raucus, popular materialism. More information about my work is available at
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