My practice is both multidisciplinary and research based. It roots in collective collaborations, practices of encounter, questions on participation, scenography and the design of environments that enable dialogues. My mediums include performance, audio recording, podcasts, pedagogy, wood construction, activism, practices of horizontal governance and writing. My projects focus on vulnerability, intimacy and social ecologies.
Since the beginning of my masters at Kask, I was intent on joining or starting a collective and investigating different collective tools and practices. I was able to begin this research during my internship with Constant vzw where I was given the task to coordinate the updating of their âCollaborative Guidelinesâ. I gained an understanding of the power of guidelines in creating respectful and ethically engaged environments. Since then I became a core group member of School of Love, a collective that opens questions and initiates practices of critical love in pedagogical contexts. Moreover, I joined State of the Arts (SOTA), a small organization that does activism in the Flemish art sector, to support their progression into a structure that can host both a laboratory for activist/artistic practices as well as being a countervailing power for the Flemish government.
In these collectives, I commit myself to practicing horizontal governance and thus I research and experiment facilitation tools, collective decision making, imagining collaborative organizational structures that distribute power, include peopleâs skills and limits as well as practice care.