Research

Over the past five years, I have explored, experimented, and now beginning to define pedagogical practice in the field of cooking and performance. As a MA graduate in Theater and Performance, my research interest began with investigating the intersections of cooking and performance. I understood the two intersect, but how and what lived in that space? 

What I discovered is that cooking is a central site where many other concepts and inquiries can generate and flower. Cooking is a ritual-practice that connects us to time and space, as well as through land, aesthetics and labour. This ritual-practice has become vital to my creative process as an invitation to express myself, heal myself and others, and engage with microbial futures. I interrogate the notions of care, ecosomatics and identity as these pillars of commodification that disrupt and displace. How we care for ourselves is how we care for the land is how we can for each other. 

Cooking is inherently nostalgic and active, as you coexist in the past, the present and the future. I am fascinated by how a mundane task can be amplified into a magical experience by intentionally creating an atmosphere that lives in multiple timelines simultaneously.  It demands everything and nothing from you at the sametime and is connected to spirituality and memory as you are able to bridge who you are culturally, ancestrally and spatially. Cooking is the embodiment of those who came before us.

My artistic practice is multi-disciplinary and co-creative. I am in consistent collaboration with the flow of my life. As I am often my own subject in my work, I have learned to utilize my curiosity as an anchor to create art that uses scale, the senses and duration. For many years practice has centered care and wellness as a mandate. Whether for myself or the community, I’ve asked the question: how do you want to feel? And after years of working as an actor, mover and deviser, I recognized the common element that made it all possible for me to do that work and ask that question, it is my relentless commitment to my relationship to food and cooking.