My work explores relationships between the body and technology through performance, interactive installations, and playful objects. My experience as a trained dancer frames my relationship with technology. I am constantly seeking novel somatic approaches to engage my body and the digital realm. Somatic practices and embodiment drive my performance work, as both research and content. My performance art is framed by the vulnerability of being seen, the agency in choosing to be seen and move my body on camera, and being visible as a queer, genderfluid artist.

There is a severe lack of feminine perspectives in the fields of computing and fabrication. My work articulates aspects of my experience being feminine-presenting in these pervasively male-dominated fields. As a small genderfluid femme who works with electronics, codes, and works as a Student Shop Manager at a Technical Sciences machine shop, I’m interested in the political and social implications of my labor in these spaces. I investigate the implications of my body’s labor in a space of industry through using mixed industrial media and performance in Material Girl. In my Untitled (thesis) video, I explore encasing feminine materials such as glitter, visually similar to metal shavings, inside the industrial form of gears. I present machining with a pink color palette, progressively revealing my feminine moving body behind the plane. In a collision of my identities that may initially seem unrelated, I perform as the machinist, dancer, and video editor.

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