2024 residencies – reflections
NYCxDESIGN Festival – Emerging Artist Residency 2024
During this 8 day residency, I hand-built vessels that were reminiscent of human bodies that fold, gesture and move in different ways. Using the coiling technique, I worked layer by layer upwards, pinching and bending the clay to develop swelling and bulging in the pieces.
UAR – Winter Artist Residency 2024
I spent 3 months with UAR program exploring acts of ritualizing, physicalizing, reproducing and ghosting to ask the question ‘is the body necessary to be human?’
Throughout my process, I experimented with mediums of performance, video, sculpture, installation, printing, clay, painting, drawing, liquid latex, rope design, 3D-scanning & 3D-printing. I immersed myself in texts of critical posthumanism, hydrofeminism, generational trauma, cyberfeminism, social reproduction, and philosophies of Deleuze and Guattari. I asked myself over and over again, what is the very essence of our humanness? Can I isolate moments of quiet discomfort and ask my spectator to sit in the point of the squeeze where ease meets resistance?