About

I am an artist-researcher, based in central Portugal and collaborating researcher with i2ADS, University of Porto and CEIS20, University of Coimbra. I use digital mixing practices to create audio-visual performances, interactive installations, participatory events, sonic experiences and sound walks. I hold a practice-based PhD in intermedial performance-making and have worked on more than 20 artistic research projects over the past 10 years.

I use my artistic practice and research to explore and interrogate our engagement with the other-than-human world and to prompt new perspectives of that world. The works and experiences I create express and activate feeling connections with the landscapes, lifeways and ecosystems with which we are entangled.

You can see examples of all these types of practices in the Projects section of the website. For all the latest news about what I’m working on, go to the homepage.

As an artist-researcher, I am committed to embedded, sustainable and relational modes of engagement in my research and creative practice. This means that I make and investigate in response to what is around me and use this immediate, felt, embodied experience to spur inquiries, projects and collaborations and to reach into wider philosophical ideas, material practices and socio-political issues.

In recent years, I have focused on exploring the qualities of wild nature, the relationships that humans form with their immediate lived environment and what influences those relationships – how we value and become attached to places. The next phase of my research and practice is focused on exploring human relationships with precarious, changing and damaged landscapes, as we confront the effects of the climate crisis, in the form of a warming planet, more extreme weather events, biodiversity and habitat loss.

Alongside this artistic research, I am also an academic researcher with a broad interest in performance practices making creative uses of digital technologies, particularly when those technologies are integrated into the meaning and feeling-making of the work. To see a list of my academic publications and presentations, visit the Publications/Presentations page. My full academic CV is also available here.

Research Areas

Ecological arts practices

Multispecies studies

Artistic research

Sound walks and sited sonic experiences

Digital technologies in live performance-making

Creative field work methods

Damaged landscapes and industrialised natures

Changing and precarious landscapes and ecosystems

Creative technoogies