University of Kent

Faculty Member, School of Arts

Other Affiliations: University of Northampton, Division of Performance Studies

Associate Lecturer, Creative events

Thesis Title: Screen as site

About

My research is part of my body, so inevitably carries the history of it. A really specific history, of a body that has been trapped in liminal spaces for a really long period (both in a geographical/historical sense, but also in a metaphorical and metonymical sense. The link between my body, research and the tools/technology that I use have become the most significant element of my thesis, since it articulates a specific methodology which thrives between disciplines and theoretical frameworks. There is no possibility of outlining my arguments without offering snippets of my personal experience, both through reflective writing and autobiographical performance use of mobile digital media.
My research explores the production of the borders, examining how they engage bodies and spatial scales. Despite their seemingly confounding specificities, it is my intention to carry research with mobile digital media, between these borders in order to enable new terms of artistic and political engagement. In my practice, I am brining together Latour’s concept of body as (2004) assemblage; Bacon’s processual approach and Colley’s (2007) autobiometry. The aim is to explore in depth the borders that I have to cross continuously in my everyday life and how they are articulated performatively through the mobile screening devices.

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