a b o u t
"I draw inspiration from the premise that human living is performed and performative; to activate this process through the vocal-body and its memory, contextualised within its geocultural history. As an open-disciplinary performance deviser and vocalist since 1999, I expanded into the practice of spatial-body relationship through choreography, influenced by BodyWeather and Pancha Tanmantra 5 Element principles. In 2010, I began formalising a spirit-corporeal vocabulary generated through contemplation on mortality. Building a line of inquiry through research residencies and witnessing of rituals, whilst devising for locations across Indonesia, Malaysia, Japan and Thailand, I secured a research grant which led me to female shamanry communities in Sabah (Malaysia) and Hanoi (Vietnam). This culminated in a 2018 participatory performance-installation, the subtle beings.
Increasingly, I have ventured into participatory, durational and/or material installation to capture the traces, the aftermath of a performance; to evoke a landscape for witnesses to inhabit before and after the performance sessions. These works search out the interrelatedness between the body as a moving vessel for history and memory, materiality in human culture, and the psycho-philosophical culture of space and place.
Ritual, imagery-work and accoutrements distilled into performance locate my visceral vocalbody. The concept of communing with the space of performance and coalescing an architectural relationship between body, voice/sound and site is key in my performance-creation research..."
