i am an artist-researcher working with theatre, video, ceramics, and sound exploring the body, language, and time.
PROJECTS
GLOSSARY
STUDIO
BIOGRAPHY AND CV
i am an artist-researcher working with theatre, video, ceramics, and sound exploring the body, language, and time.
PROJECTS
GLOSSARY
STUDIO
BIOGRAPHY AND CV
photos by sarah bodri
BIOGRAPHY
i am an artist-researcher working with theatre, video, ceramics, and sound to explore the body, language, and time. specifically, bodies that experience other ways of being in the world, dysfluent languages, and time that bends. i also carry lived experience with trouble with word finding from anomia after brain injury. i live and work in toronto.
i founded a theatre production company in 2009. early productions included A TASTE in 2010 — a multidisciplinary showcase of 7 plays and a short film involving 18 collaborators, presented at the department gallery mainspace in toronto. in 2011, i co-produced an award-winning mockumentary short film MILK BATH. in 2014, i adapted 13 works by charles bukowski into a play, called it A TICKET ON THE 4, and directed and produced it at aluna theatre in toronto.
following my brain injury in 2014, my practice evolved to include ceramics that explored trouble with word finding. between 2016-2018 I co-produced 2 short films for the 48-hour film project. in 2017, i wrote, directed, and produced 20 — an abstract short video composed of my own ct scans exploring aphasia — which premiered at toronto general hospital.
between 2020 and 2023, my practice formally began to include research and language-based sound with REMEMBER TO FORGET. REMEMBER TO FORGET was an international public call for submissions that invited participants to record phrases about memory, rituals of remembering, and language loss phenomena.
guided by the question, “what does trouble with word finding sound like?” i wrote, directed, and produced a sound and video art lab called 26 OR LESS at the charles street video maker space residency in 2024. in 2025, in toronto, i collaborated with visual artist rochelle rubinstein on DRAWING A BLANK, an installation that paired her accordion-folded books with a soundscape i created addressing voicelessness.
i will be drawing on all of these past experiences for my upcoming production HOW DO WE (SPEAK) LIKE A PALACE.
CV
education
2026 MA science and technology studies, research focused on social studies of neuroscience and sonic ethnography, york university, toronto, ontario
2013 BA (Hons.) social science, research focused on social studies of race, ethnicity, and indigeneity, york university, toronto, ontario
selected theatre writing, directing, and producing
2027 HOW DO WE (SPEAK) LIKE A PALACE an interdisciplinary dance-theatre production, the nancy and ed jackman performance centre, toronto, on
2024 26 OR LESS an interactive audiovisual lab, charles street video, toronto, ontario
2014 A TICKET ON THE 4 aluna theatre, toronto, ontario
2011 MAKING OTHER PLANS labspace studio, toronto, ontario
2010 A TASTE, the department gallery mainspace, toronto, ontario
selected group exhibitions
2027 SPEAK, MEMORY! an ongoing sound and ceramics installation, with graeme dyck, gallery to be announced, toronto, ontario
2027 HOW DO WE (SPEAK) LIKE A PALACE an exhibition of the dance-theatre production’s soundscape, with graeme dyck, gallery to be announced, montréal, québec
2027 A PERSON SSSPEAKING, to be announced
2025 DRAWING A BLANK, a dual-exhibition with rochelle rubinstein, open studio, toronto, ontario
2024 SPEAK, MEMORY! the clark centre for the arts, scarborough, ontario
selected solo exhibitions
2017 BALAENA ceramics, little sister gallery, toronto, ontario
2015 SCORE ceramics, mon ton window gallery, toronto, ontario
selected video production
2017 - 2024 20 an experimental video about aphasia, toronto general hospital and charles street video, toronto, ontario
2016 I AM A DOCTOR, sisu production, toronto, ontario
2015 LOCK JOB, sisu production, toronto, ontario
2014 I AM RESOLVED, sisu production, toronto, ontario
2012 MILK BATH a mockumentary short film co-produced with simona analte, peacock productions, toronto, ontario and la jolla, usa
2010 LOBSTER MAN, independent production, toronto, ontario
workshop facilitation
2027 HOW DO WE (SPEAK) LIKE A PALACE a deep listening session of the dance-theatre production’s soundscape, with graeme dyck, co-presented in partnership with designto, critical distance, toronto, ontario
2024 SOUNDING SPEEDBUMPS a soundscape workshop series facilitated by me, a situated neurology residency, toronto, ontario
2023 - 2024 YORKU ART THERAPY WORKSHOPS, sweet action theatre, toronto, ontario
research
2021 - 2026 GETAKIT research focused on social studies of sexual health, the university of ottawa, ottawa, ontario
2020 - 2023 REMEMBER TO FORGET research focused on memory, language, and the brain, online, earth
2017 AND BLOW IT OPEN research and essay writing focused on work by rochelle rubinstein, toronto, ontario
2013 - 2015 IMAGININGS research focused on art and science, the centre for imaginative ethnography, toronto, ontario
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