artist + designer + curator

Current

Site-specific Kinetic Garments

PREMIERING SEPTEMBER 2012, CANADA
The Tree Museum, Ontario

A new media series of hi-tech wearable sculptures created for specific locations worldwide. The garments are constructed with local materials and the latest technology in scientific couture (interactive interfaces, smart textiles, motion and temperature sensors, etc), in order to react, influence and document their environment/wearers. Their unique design instigates specific body movements and activities inspired by the site they were created for, remaining on location to be worn/experienced by the general public.

Unnatural Union

PREMIERING JANUARY 2013, BRAZIL
Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics
A collaboration with Johannes Zits (CANADA) and Jason Gaspar (USA)

Regarding nature as mirror and the city as science lab, the project aims to place humanness on an equal level with the surroundings. The artists will embody diverse physical states that blur the boundaries of what is everyday & non-everyday, right & wrong, cause & effect, audience & performer. The resulting hybrid expressions (textures, images, actions, sounds) have been conceptualized around personal reflections related to the origins of aesthetics, the ecology of body, gender roles in urbanism, and the relationship between spirituality and physical identity. Fulfilling the artists’ interest in the intersection of art, politics and urban life, the piece taps into the politics of space, matter and body, staging “natural” art actions in the tamed or “civilized” nature. Erotic overtones give way to questions regarding mankind’s liberties over nature and our own bodies, making a statement about how these liberties are restricted by aesthetic, social and political conventions.