From the beginning, I have been concerned with creating visceral, corporeal environments where the body offers a wealth of materiality and resource. Sweat, skin, blood, tears, and breath are my primary materials.

I perform in consecutive durations, without taking breaks, barefoot, often fasting, in silence, and without a timepiece. Additional materials are minimal, found or generated through collaborative processes, and always specific to site and taste, sound and environment, specters and rigorous research.

I am committed to an overtly queer and feminist durational practice that challenges masochistic tropes of endurance. It is a practice of risk, struggle, vulnerability, connection, presence, and possibility.

My work has been included within The Marina Abramović Institute’s Immaterial archive and presented at Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik (ZK/U) in Berlin, Cité internationale des Arts in Paris, SOMArts in San Francisco, grüntaler9 in Berlin, The Northern California Performance Platform, Stanford University’s Department of Art and Architecture, Berlin Art Week, Performance Studies International, and Heizraum Concert Series in Berlin. I have additionally performed at Centro Negra with AADK in Blanca Spain, Dance Theatre Workshop in New York City, the Performance Arts Institute in San Francisco, and Grace Exhibition Space in New York City. My recent work includes Citation, which I performed for 37 consecutive hours at CounterPulse in San Francisco, Sloughing, which included 35 performers and occurred across 19 different locations in the Bay Area over 28-days, Underway: En Cours a practice-based research project based on research conducted at Centre Pompidou as part of a residency with Cité des Artes in Paris, and a 76-day piece, Stay in Place, that was performed in my living room during the onset of COVID-19.

I received my PhD from The Department of Theater and Performance Studies at Stanford University and hold an MA in Performance Studies (NYU) and an MA in Gender Politics (NYU). I previously developed and taught courses in Performance Art, Performance Theory and Practice, and The Art of Duration in the Critical Studies Department at California College of the Arts. From 2020-2023 I was Mellon Post- Doctoral Fellow in the John B. Hurford ‘60 Center for the Arts and Humanities and Visiting Assistant Professor of Visual Studies and Gender and Sexuality Studies at Haverford College.

I am currently an independent artist and the founder of ON DURATION, an intergenerational and international platform that supports durational artists to engage in collective creative research and public praxis.

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photo by Patrick Morarescu