I (she/her) am a white American-Canadian artist based in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. As an artist, I am concerned with how my work emerges in relation to space, histories, and other people, and how to maintain an awareness and acknowledgement of these relations. I have a situated practice both materially and conceptually; I work with what I am in close vicinity to in order to develop a dialogue from my current position historically, geographically, and economically. I am conscious of my role as a maker in a context of excess, and use capitalist culture's flotsam and jetsam to create work that radically reflects a dependency on the present.
My research focuses on personal and political lineages of information: specifically on improvisational and dialogue-based methods of knowledge transmission. I work alone and with other people, with tactile materials and with performance, sound, and video. Right now, I am interested in storytelling, character building, personal archives, humour, repetition, revision, and singing.
A .PDF version of my CV can be found here.
In 2019, I started a project space called Available & The Rat from an apartment in the Charlois neighborhood in Rotterdam Zuid, which has been and is being run collaboratively with many others: Pascale de Graaf, Niloufar Nematollahi, and Maoyi.
Since 2021, I broadcast some of my practice and process through episodic sound via WORM Radio. Currently, I collaborate with Angelica Falkeling on Desperate Hobbies, an improvisational musical project where we use our one-hour broadcast to share vocal techniques, attention, and emotional support. Recently, we started writing our own songs.
On Packing Light was a podcast that speculated, with others, the ways in which capitalism has shaped our relationship to and understanding of our personal belongings, specifically through the personal and political sentimental capacities of textiles and clothing. This project was broadcast live in Rotterdam via WORM Radio, and archived online.I'm (not)working on a perpetually unfinished project called System of Radical Dependency (first commissioned through a research position at Index Foundation in Stockholm in 2018, and later elaborated with School of Commons in 2022) that aims to acknowledge the dependencies in an artistic practice in order to redefine how artistic practices are represented through online distribution systems. An ongoing and unfinished essay on this work can be read here.
Zalucky Contemporary, a gallery in Toronto, Canada run by Juliana Zalucky.
The header typeface on this website is G.B.Jones designed by artist Nat Pyper. The font is based on the title sequence of Toronto aritst G.B. JONES' 2008 film THE LOLLIPOP GENERATION, which was made with a Lite Brite toy.