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The performances I make are often presented in contexts at the intersection of visual arts and performance.
My artistic practice is rooted in research—academic research, embodied research, and participatory research.
My writings range from academic to poetic essays, and text for performances.
I also work as a performer, and dramaturg, holding graduate degrees in literary and performance studies, and I am a certified somatic practitioner.
PERFORMANCES
Slow Visit
Solo performance for exhibition spaces, 2024
I respond to the time required to make the artworks of an exposition, and the time we usually spend watching them. By moving very slowly, I enter a state of presence and deep perception that can be contagious.
Creatures at rest
Durational performance, 2021
On a slowly turning platform, three performers explore a slow movement practice. In whatever position they find themselves, they search for as much rest and comfort as possible, while deeply listening to inner as well as outer movements.
WRITINGS
Slow Spatial Reader: Chronicles of Radical Affection
Publication edited by Carolyn F. Strauss, Valiz Summer 2021
Like its predecessor, Slow Reader (Valiz 2016), this new publication is intended to spur meaningful dialogue between disciplines and cultures, inspiring not only a different velocity of engaging the world but also critical shifts in consciousness.
I contribute with a chapter called "Space as Atmosphere: Floating in a Molecular Bath", in which I share my recent research on atmosphere, slowness and perception, starting from my experience with Stav Yeini's The Senders.
Aesthetic Boredom: Investigating the Experience of Slow Dance in a Society of Haste
Master’s Thesis, Contemporary Theatre Dance and Dramaturgy, Utrecht University, March 2020
Drawing on publications by Hartmut Rosa, Byung-Chul Han, Jonathan Crary, André Lepecki, Bojana Cvejic, Bojana Kunst, Ana Vujanović, Gernot Böhme, and Alva Noë, I explore how a rencent tendency in contemporary dance, coined ‘slow dance’ by Hana Lee Erdman and Louise Dahl, answers to a societal context of haste. I develop the concepts of ‘molecular thingness’ and ‘atmosphere’ to approach slowness beyond easily identifiable compositional choices; and ‘deep perception’, ‘aesthetic boredom’ and ‘atmospheres of resonance’ to indicate a distinctive way in which slow performances organize collective spaces of spectatorship, namely spaces that, by calling attention to a realm that ontologically precedes all kind of individuation, bypass individualistic as well as anthropocentric modes of engaging.
RESEARCH PROJECTS
It's Good To Talk With You, Mother
Research on birth, slowness and textile crafting, November 2023 - January 2024
As the 6th Belgian artist to benefit from LE18 MARRAKECH's partnership with the Flemish government, I researched the use of embroidery and meditation as a way to initiate intimate conversations. My project evolved into collaborative crafting and discussions with the Gifted Mothers of Dar Bellarj, as well as involving a larger group of collaborators for translation and mediation.
The work presented on January 26 and to be visited at LE18 until April 2024 is an ongoing outcome of this conversation.
Slow Experiments
Slow research exercises with Rita Hoofwijk, 2022-2023
Slow Experiments is a series of exercises through which I attempt answering the question: “what can help us slowing down?”
The answers take the form of short audio tracks that take us on an embodied journey to slow land.
They are exercises for myself in giving shape to my research on how to take visitors along in embodied experiences of slowness. And they are exercises in slowing down for whoever will try them out.
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