-Can you tell us about your practice – what are you working on at the moment?

I have a transdisciplinary practice that evolves, mutates and combines several medium throughout the making process. I like to look at it from a performative perspective with a focus on navigating between physical and digital ways of productions. I am influenced by feelings of shame and guilt related to performing (un)productivity, and use my studio as a laboratory for self-explorations and -experimentations based on lived experiences. Today, I focus on body exhaustion, digital fatigue and mental breakdown as a starting ground, and I am currently preparing a self-initiated residency with João Roxo taking place in Maputo, Mozambique in March and April 2022, using craft as a tool for self-exploration and as an act of resilience.

It made me reconsider many aspect of my artistic practice and methodology, its rhythm, work ethic and connections and, what do I stand for in my work and life in general.

-What is your take on Amsterdam art scene? Did WOW Amsterdam help you to facilitate new connections?

Speed Series are Speed-date like residencies, collaborations and reflective moments taking the shape of online interventions on several digital platforms. They take their root from Xenofeminism ideas « reclaiming cyberspace from a trans-, queer- and feminist perspective » that helped me co- and re-connect with peers I was inspired by. WOW Amsterdam gave me a space to rest, heal and connect with peers like Maisa Imamović with whom I worked on one of the Speed Series related to the notion of Boredom.

-What kind of alternative models of networking did you observe in the artistic settings during pandemic?

I initiated my own way to connect and bring people together within digital environments while we were in lockdown. It reclaimed existing platform I hijacked and changed the usage to created opportunities to share and explore digital intimacy. I worked with peers, chatbot and performed AI via Instagram, Googledocs, Telegram, Discord, Twitch and Onlyfans.

As a response to the Speed Series, I am programming chatbots as assistants to slowly take over my online presence and to fully focus on the physicality of my art practice.

-Please name five essential aspects necessary for you to keep your practice sustainable?

create or initiate contexts

exchange with people you trust

reclaim your space time and rhythm

-What is your strategy to recharge?

         s l o w  d o w n.

-If you would be reincarnated as some other plant or animal what would it be?

An undiscovered specie coming from the abyss.

Photography by Roman Ermolaev