My artwork inhabits the intersection between science and art, focusing on interspecies relations. Working directly with slime mould (physarum polycephalum), this non-human collaborator shapes my work across performance, film and sculptural installations that explore the intricacies of ecological coexistence.

 

Can performance art provide a non-verbal language between species?

 

Can sharing a space enable interspecies communication?

 

These questions led me to live in a tent with slime mould for seven days, continually adjusting the humidity, light and food sources. The resulting footage contrasts the slime mould’s slow, rhythmic, branching patterns with my hand's tentative responses. I also stage human group performances exploring whether humans can responsively, wordlessly and collectively navigate spaces without top-down hierarchies. My ceramic sculptures unite my hands, slime mould, and clay. I encourage slime mould to grow over the clay terrain and have developed a technique that preserves, through firing, the traces of its movements.