Headlands Center for the Arts

Artist Statement

My work exists at the intersection of performance, curation, and embodied research, deeply informed by Black studies, queer theory, and diasporic memory. Through interdisciplinary forms—including poetry, movement, sculpture, video, and installation—I explore the rituals, griefs, and celebrations embedded in Black and queer life. Central to my practice is the consideration of rest, metamorphosis, and how bodies serve as archives of experience, holding within them genealogies of survival, rupture, fugitivity, tenderness, and joy.
I approach the body not simply as an instrument of expression but as a living repository—an ever-evolving site where history, imagination, and desire converge. My work asks how we might tend to what has been erased, disinvested, or rendered illegible, and how performance can function as both a practice of remembrance and a rehearsal for imagining futures otherwise. Through the creative use of textiles, mixed media, performance installation, and poetry, I delve into how bodies, especially Black bodies, exist within expanded notions of time, shrouded in histories, silenced knowledge, and speculative possibility.

While At Headlands

Following the premiere of my work at Lincoln Center this summer, I will arrive at Headlands seeking a period of intentional retreat and excavation in preparation for a forthcoming performance exhibition slated for 2027. My practice approaches performance as a living repository, and I am interested in how memory, erasure, and desire surface through embodied research. At Headlands, I hope to slow down enough to listen to what my archives are asking of me now: what wants to be reactivated, remain opaque, and emerging. Maintaining a studio will allow me to experiment with spatial arrangements of textiles, text, video, and movement scores while developing the conceptual architecture for my next body of work.