I am a movement-based performance artist creating close-up, site-specific, participatory encounters. My projects invite collaboration, exchange, and intimacy between performer and spectator, activating the performance space as a site of critical action.

At various moments playful, ironic, and unsettling, interactive works such as Witness (a performance for one person at a time) and Your Photo-Op with Abby Ghraib (in which I pose with audiences for torture-themed tourist photos) invite viewers to insert themselves into the event, and then make moral decisions about how to act. In Birthing a Nation, media artist Erika Katrina Barbosa and I invite viewers to rub our touch-responsive “pregnant” bellies, triggering vibrations and audio recordings of NRA leaders, clergy, and police officers who praise their weapons with religious zeal from within the womb.

I am inspired by the histories and communities of Los Angeles, the city I've called home since 2008. My site-responsive projects In the Current and Sibling Rivers reference the complex social histories embedded in the relatively forgotten wild spaces of the Los Angeles River. From 2014-2015, I curated performances for Play the LA River, a public art project encouraging residents and visitors to creatively explore the river’s 51 miles. I was born in Northern California, but my parents grew up here in the LA area. One of my grandfathers built the iconic Rose Bowl sign, and the other worked on silent movies for Mack Sennett in the neighborhood I now call home.