As an artist, I employ an inquiry-based practice to investigate labor, technology, and socioeconomic conditions through solo performance, immersive installations, and socially engaged projects. All of my work draws on my experiences of solidarity and alienation as a worker under late stage capitalism, and intends to stir a form of creative class consciousness in its audience. My work is always site-specific and informed by a process of co-creation with the particular community I am engaging with, and my artistic methods of ideation and collaboration are informed by design thinking methods sourced from my day job. Not only are these works site-specific, but they are also what Tania Bruguera calls Political Timing-Specific, a term signaling that an artwork is deeply rooted in a particular political moment. While these works are highly personal to my experiences of alienation and solidarity in the workplace and the world, they also speak to a collective desire for community ideation and co-creating an equitable future together.
Currently, my primary interests lie in how resources are distributed through individual and collective means, and how socially engaged art and technology can provide material access to resources and reframe them in a creative way. This ongoing artistic research is inspired by the concept and praxis of mutual aid as well as examples of solidarity economies globally. As governmental aid is revoked and infrastructure crumbles around us, it feels imperative and urgent to me to build systems of care outside of institutional models of support. Art is one means to do so.