ARTIST STATEMENT

Why do I practice art?

To practice liberation.
To imagine beyond the dominant culture.
To bring people together.
To listen better.
To honor the body.

I practice art as a queer feminist divorced mother. Through these identities, I understand the experience of simultaneously fighting liberation and fighting for it.

My practice weaves performance, activism, dance, curation, facilitation, theater, lawyering, visual art, installation, improvisation, co-leadership, and writing.  Regardless of media or mode, I listen to sensation, movement, and desire.

I am an activist formalist. This means that I think about subject matter through form. This also means that I interrogate the basis of form.

My art and my activism are the same practice.