Constellations of shared air, radical friendship, public practice, and living archives

In Brief:
This page gathers the residencies, collaborations, invitations, teaching contexts, research networks, and community spaces that shape my practice. Rather than seeing these as separate activities, I understand them as part of a wider ecology of relation: a constellation of people, places, texts, institutions, and shared atmospheres through which the work develops.

My practice grows through gathering. It is formed in artist residencies, workshops, listening and reading groups, public presentations, university classrooms, conversations with scholars, collective research, and informal exchanges that continue across distance. These encounters shape the work materially and ethically, allowing it to move between artistic practice, pedagogy, public engagement, research, and friendship.

Across these contexts, I work with breath, memory, Irish diasporic inheritance, maternal relation, correspondence, shared air, and radical friendship. Residencies and collaborations are where these concerns become lived: through reading together, cooking together, walking, listening, writing, presenting, breathing, and forming temporary archives of relation.

The work is not produced alone. It is held by an expanding constellation of collaborators, students, artists, researchers, friends, hosts, and communities.

A Practice Built Through Relation

Collaboration is central to my practice.

I work through socially engaged artistic methods that create spaces for collective reflection, embodied listening, shared study, and public encounter. These spaces may take the form of workshops, reading groups, performances, archival installations, sound works, lectures, conversations, or temporary gatherings.

Each context changes the work. A residency in Bulgaria transforms a reading group into an exhibition of handwritten fragments held in the mountain air. An invitation from a scholar at Western University opens a space for thinking maternal memory and shared air across Canada. A conference panel in Argentina extends the work into international memory studies. A workshop with students becomes a way of asking how knowledge is held in bodies and atmospheres. A conversation after a session becomes the beginning of a future collaboration.

This is how the practice gathers.

Research Invitations and International Constellations

Recent invitations have become important sites for developing the public and transnational dimensions of my work.

At Western University’s Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism, I was invited by Paria Rahimi to present my research on maternal memory, embodied methodologies, and shared air. This invitation created a generous space for dialogue around Irish diasporic memory, breath, pedagogy, and socially engaged artistic practice.

In 2026, I will present at the 10th Annual Memory Studies Association Conference: Memory and Democracy at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires, Argentina. My paper, From the Relation of Two to Communal Air: Embodied Maternal Memory and Resistance, will extend my research into international conversations on memory, democracy, embodiment, and resistance.

I am also contributing to a research and cultural programme in Germany connected to correspondence, and archival knowledge. This work continues my interest in the letter as a form of delayed address and the archive as a living, relational space.

These invitations are not simply moments of dissemination. They are part of the practice itself: spaces where the work is tested, questioned, translated, and carried into new relations.

Radical Friendship and Collective Study

The Radical Friendship Listening and Reading Group is one of the central gathering structures in my practice.

The group brings together artists, researchers, writers, and practitioners across countries and disciplines through shared texts, artworks, fragments, sound, and discussion. Each session is hosted by a member of the group and unfolds through slow reading, listening, silence, annotation, and collective reflection.

Radical Friendship is both a project and a method. It asks how we might remain in relation across difference, uncertainty, discomfort, and distance. It is a way of practising care without demanding sameness, and of thinking together without requiring resolution.

The group has become a living constellation: a place where collaborations begin, methods are tested, and future workshops, exhibitions, and archival forms emerge.

Artist Residencies and Site-Responsive Practice

Tsarino Foundation Artist Residency

Tsarino, Bulgaria | September 2024

At Tsarino, I facilitated a week-long series of breath-led listening and reading groups in the outdoor kitchen, woodland paths, abandoned village spaces, and around firelight under the stars.

The residency gathered local collaborators, visiting artists, volunteers, texts, songs, memories, and multiple languages into a shared practice of textual and bodily breath. It culminated in Tsarino Textual Breath, a communal exhibition at Razklon Gallery, where handwritten fragments were held in a glass box and suspended in the mountain air.

This residency became a formative model for how my practice understands the archive: not as a fixed repository, but as something created through encounter, landscape, breath, and relation.

School of Materialist Research Summer School

The Feminine in an Age of Anthropological Transformation, Greece | September 2024

At the School of Materialist Research Summer School, I presented an embodied scripted reading that explored maternal breath, diasporic shame, and the transformation of the feminine.

The context allowed me to test how performance, voice, breath, and feminist philosophy can meet within an academic and artistic gathering, opening questions around discomfort, embodied inheritance, and collective listening.

Bidston Observatory Artistic Research Centre

Liverpool, UK | June 2024

At Bidston Observatory, I developed an embodied circular reading shaped by breath, voice, movement, communal living, and the architecture of the site.

The residency unfolded through shared meals, conversations, housework, care, and readings that moved between rooms. It deepened my understanding of public engagement as something that also happens through ordinary gestures: cooking, cleaning, listening, dwelling, and staying with one another.

Counterfield Writing Residency

Brighton, UK | September 2023

This residency with members of the Counterfield research and practice collective supported the development of writing, breath-led performance, and embodied research methods. Conversations around a kitchen table became part of the work, shaping scripts and workshop structures that continue to inform my embodied practice.

Research and Practice Collectives

My work is shaped by collective research environments that blur the boundaries between art practice, theory, friendship, and pedagogy.

Selected collectives and research networks include:

Radical Friendship Listening and Reading Group
A transnational gathering for collective study, listening, reading, and relational practice.

Counterfield
A research and practice collective associated with Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, where I developed embodied research and movement workshops, collaborative writing, and experimental feminist methodologies.

Feminist Breath Collective
A collective context for thinking through breath, embodiment, feminism, and shared practice.

Radical Reliance Collective
A research collective exploring care, interdependence, reliance, and feminist forms of relation.

Gold Practice-Based Research Forum
A CHASE-funded forum supporting interdisciplinary practice-based research and exchange.

These groups form part of the wider social and intellectual infrastructure of my practice. They are spaces where ideas are held, challenged, and transformed collectively.

Teaching, Facilitation and Socially Engaged Practice

Teaching and facilitation are central to my artistic practice.

With over 20 years of experience across community, school, undergraduate, postgraduate, and adult learning contexts, I create spaces where art, theory, lived experience, and embodied practice can move together.

As a Visiting Lecturer in Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London, I have facilitated workshops and seminars across modules including:

Feminist and Queer Technoscience
Ocean as Archive
Histories of Art LAB
Situated Knowledges

These teaching contexts are not separate from my art practice. They are part of my socially engaged methodology. They allow me to develop forms of collective learning where knowledge emerges through breath, movement, reading, silence, shared attention, and the atmosphere of the room.

My facilitation practice is grounded in feminist ethics of care, consent, access, opacity, and co-presence. Workshops are structured as brave spaces where participants can engage without pressure to disclose, perform, or resolve.

Collaborators and Ongoing Dialogues

My practice is shaped by ongoing dialogue with transnational collaborators whose work moves through sound, textile, film, somatics, ecology, oral history, and feminist memory.

These include:

Melina Flaviana Di Fabrizio — textile artist, art therapist, anthropologist, and documentary photographer, whose practice engages material memory, embroidery, therapeutic image-making, and transnational feminist approaches to care and inheritance.

Angelos Streklas — musician, artist, and scientist, whose work with sound, improvisation, breath, and site-responsive music opens dialogue between sonic resonance, embodied memory, and ecological relation.

Rhona Eve Clews — artist, ecologist, and somatic practitioner, whose practice brings together ecofeminist methodologies, embodied movement, poetic gesture, and ecological attunement.

Sara Simić — researcher, film critic, and scholar working with oral history, feminist film, and intergenerational trauma through Jewish Croatian women’s narratives.

Louisa Kamrath — PhD student in the Graduate School for Intersectionality Studies at the University of Bayreuth, Germany. Coming from a background in political and feminist theory, her research explores categorical thinking and agency across cultural theory, embodied cognition, and psychoanalysis. Her current PhD project is a qualitative sociological study on precarious motherhood in Berlin.

Guilherme Giantini — independent researcher with an M.Sc. in Computational Design and an MA in Industrial and Product Design. His research moves across architecture, design technology, design philosophy, and critical design studies. Drawing on continental philosophy, feminist, posthuman, and queer theoretical frameworks, his work approaches the Anthropocene as a site for interdisciplinary critique, artistic practice, and speculative design.

These collaborations extend the work across Ireland, Greece, Argentina, Croatia, Spain, the UK, and beyond. They allow shared air, sonic practice, material memory, and archival relation to move between different geographies and histories.

Exhibitions, Screenings and Public Presentations

Selected public-facing presentations include:

Shared Air: Sonic Fragments, Maternal Echoes
Radio Elsewheres [re.03], Art Windsor-Essex, Windsor, Ontario | 16 October – 5 November 2025

Tsarino Textual Breath
Razklon Gallery, Tsarino Foundation, Bulgaria | 23 September – 23 November 2024

Filmic Breath – Hydro Feminine
Choreo Archive, Skewed Gallery | November 2022

These works move between sound, film, text, installation, and participatory archive, asking how fragments can remain alive through shared encounter.

Conferences, Lectures and Workshops

Selected recent presentations and workshops include:

From the Relation of Two to Communal Air
Invited presentation, Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism, Western University, Canada | 2025

Embodied Methodologies in Memory Studies
Mnemonics: Network for Memory Studies Annual Conference, Ghent University, Belgium | 2025

Breath as Resistance
Everyday Resistance: Thinking, Making, and Living in the Material World, University of Brighton | 2025

Stream Organiser: Interweaving Embodied Practice and Critical Theory in Transnational Feminisms
London Conference in Critical Thought, Birkbeck, University of London | 2025

Embodied Research, Filmic Breath and the Feminine-to-Come
School of Materialist Research, Greece | 2024

These events have allowed the work to move between presentation, performance, workshop, and collective inquiry.

Publications and Interviews

Selected publications and interviews include:

Apparitions
tent.press | 2025

Counterfield II
2024

London Artists Interviews, Episode 1
2021

Market Tales: A Geopolyphony
2011

These publications reflect the relationship between writing, artistic practice, collective research, and experimental forms of knowledge production.

Community Engagement

Closing Line

My practice is built through gathering: through invitations, residencies, workshops, reading groups, conversations, shared meals, public presentations, and the fragile constellations of relation that continue after the event has ended.

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