I am an interdisciplinary artist, researcher and educator. Using performance, installation and text as an instrument I explore spatiality in relation to my own body. My research and practice deal with poetics and politics of the body in space, embodied ecology, temporal geographies, home, addresses and addresses. I graduated from Utrecht School of the Arts, HKU, the Netherlands with a master's in performance art/artistic research. My thematic interests include the process of becoming, expanded identities, environmentalism, land art, protest, resilient bodies, social engagement and participation.
My journey as a mind-body psychotherapist has shaped my current approach to art making, borrowing from ecopsychology and the grief that stems from humanity's disconnection from the natural world. This exploration also engages with gendered ecologies, examining how our relationships to nature are shaped by gendered perspectives and the ways in which both bodies and landscapes are controlled, nurtured, or marginalized. I investigate how can embodied, site-specific, and dialogic performative practices with nature be used as pedagogical tools in the arts and education to cultivate healing, empathy, and ecological awareness.
Through my practice and research, I aim to redefine what it means to be human by exploring an expanded identity that is interwoven with the inner, inter, and ecological realms. I create choreographies of empathy and love for other than humans. Inspired by the wisdom of trees, the earth, water, and mountains, my art and life are deeply intertwined with nature.