Research.
My current research focuses on attempts to obliterate and transcend the human body in performance, and intersections with post-humanism, cyborgism, transness and AI. This research has its origins in my lived experience as non-binary.
In 2021, I gave a talk entitled ‘No Bodies Here’ for the Manchester School of Art Research Centre, and as part of my research I am currently making The Extinction Trilogy, my largest scale work to-date.
My unpeopled installation, Caretaker, which occupied the Royal Court main stage for 6 months during the first UK Covid lockdown, has been written about in French journal Théâtre/Public and Critical Stages.
My work has also been written about in Performance Research, TLS, as well as in Women in Performance: repurposing failure (Gorman, 2020). I have contributed to publications including The 21st Century Performance Reader, DIY and the Live Art Almanac.
My research also includes slippage of language, age and gender (cf. my non-binary drag child Shorty), the 'pathetic epic' as a mode of Queerness, and transness of forms.
I was Thinker-in-Residence at the Live Art Development Agency from 2015-17, focusing on Young People, Gender and Live Art.