Through this residency I will be developing a body of work; paper-work, wasp-work, care-work– a series of videos as assembled digital fragments alongside live digital performance. Emerging from explorations in how institutional documentation can be metabolised through the body, metaphor, found materials and then re-scripted digitally, I will construct a counter-archive rooted in care and attention to smallness – engaging with loss, change, clumsiness and messiness. Incorporating glitch, disruption and incoherence, the work aims to question dominant structures of record-keeping and storytelling within institutions – with particular attention to care-system experience.
My practice centres lived experience and body-based approaches, using video, drawing and performance to explore questions of health, place and displacement, power, and relational dynamics. Themes of care, connection, tension and transition run throughout my work, alongside a commitment to dialogue as a means of shifting perceptions, practices and ways of being in community. I collect and create material fragments to tell incoherent, intimate and personal stories that engage socio-political research and collectivity.