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I write, research, publish, and create scaffolding for collective reflection alongside friends and collaborators.
My practice is rooted in engaging with storytelling, memory, and knowledge through an embodied, multisensorial lens. Working across writing, publishing, participatory gatherings, literary performance, installation, moving image, I examine the interconnectedness of the visible and invisible realms through an open-ended process that begins with awareness of the body-mind in space. Lived experience, relationships, and literature guide my work as much as ancient schools of thought, synchronicities, and ungraspable forms of knowing — such as nightly dreams, bodily sensations, ancestral memories, and ecological patterns. I'm particurlarly interested in tracing the social, cultural, and historical forces that elevate certain knowledge systems and narrative forms while marginalizing others.
I also tend ONEIRIC SPACE, an ongoing research project delving into the relationship between nightly dreams and waking life, both at an individual and collective level. Through conversations, collaborations, and gatherings, ONEIRIC SPACE looks at dreams as a site for generative patterns of being, feeling, and imagining together.
I also work as an editorial consultant providing content writing and strategy services to companies, brands, and agencies.
Born in Toronto, I live and work in Berlin.
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RESIDENCIES, FELLOWSHIPS & GRANTS
2024. Canada Council for the Arts, Research and Creation grant
2024. Est-Nord-Est Résidence d’artistes. Quebec, Canada
2023. Stiftung Künstlerdorf Schöppingen. Schöppingen, Germany
2021. Temporars Susch residency/Muzeum Susch. Susch, Switzerland
GATHERINGS & READINGS
2025. Touching into Dream Waters with Marwa Zein. Workshop and shared meal. For the series ‘Through the Cracks,’ curated by Armeghan Taheri for Goethe Institut in Exile, at ACUD Galerie. Berlin, Germany.
2025. Dream Spheres with Laurel Schwulst and Nick Koppenhagen. Workshop at Trust. Berlin, Germany.
2024. the breath of water and wind. ONEIRIC SPACE participatory reading. Naive Yearly, organized by Kristoffer Tjalve, at the Museum of Architecture and Design Ljubjlana. Ljubjlana, Slovenia
2024. Dream Spiral: ONEIRIC SPACE with 0ct0p0s/Nick Koppenhagen. Dream-sharing session. ‘non-linear constructions,’ organized by Monika Dorniak, at Insola and Dammweg. Berlin, Germany
2024. Wading Thru Dreams, 2gether. ONEIRIC SPACE participatory reading. ‘There has to be smth in the room’ exhibition, curated by Alzbeta Cermakova, at ACUD Galerie. Berlin, Germany
2024. Wading Thru Dreams, 2gether with Siestaria. ONEIRIC SPACE participatory reading. Vorspiel at kwia. Berlin, Germany
2024. fluid as melting ice. dreamXchange Guided Sessions x ONEIRIC SPACE. On Discord.
2023. Wading Thru Dreams, 2gether. ONEIRIC SPACE participatory reading.
Burg Hülshoff – Center for Literature, as part of the Denkfabrik program. Münster, Germany
2023. Wading Thru Dreams, 2gether. ONEIRIC SPACE participatory reading. Stiftung Künstlerdorf Schöppingen, as part of its Curated for Advanced Practices: Beyond Literature program. Schöppingen, Germany.
2023. Dipping into Dreams. ONEIRIC SPACE reading-workshop. Stiftung Künstlerdorf Schöppingen. Schöppingen, Germany.
2021. Dreamscapes: DADDY Magazine x ONEIRIC SPACE. Collaborative event. Callie’s. Berlin, Germany.
2020. Anxiety Release Reading. ONEIRIC SPACE reading with Edna Bonhomme, Mert Akbal, Charmaine de Heij, Nadia Marcus. Haus am Lützowplatz, as part of the ‘It was all a dream’ exhibition, curated by Laura Helena Wurth. Berlin, Germany
2019. ONEIRIC SPACE launch. Readings & conversation with Anna Nowicka. The Black Lodge. Berlin, Germany
PUBLISHING EXPERIMENTS
Forthcoming. Circulations (@ Sunrise) 006 with neuroscientist Sidarta Ribeiro. Sign up to the newsletter.
2024. Circulations (@ Sunrise) 005 ~ Artist Daniel Godínez Nivón on Indigenous understandings of dreams and delving into nonhuman dreaming worlds. Newsletter.
2024. Circulations (@ Sunrise) 004 ~ Interdisciplinary scholar Sharon Sliwinski on the political potential of disclosing dreams to others. Newsletter.
2023. Circulations (@ Sunrise) 003 ~ Artist and researcher Mina Heydari-Waite on how dream-sharing can open up new perspectives into our collective waking realities. Newsletter.
2023. Dream Matter. Artist’s book published by ONEIRIC SPACE.
2023. Circulations (@ Sunrise) 002 ~ Poet and healer Goitseone Montsho on a series of dreams that led to reconnecting with the Sangoma traditions of her South African ancestors. Newsletter.
2022. Circulations (@ Sunrise) 001 ~ Writer and artist Manisha Anjali on the intimacy and imaginative potential of sharing dreams. Newsletter.
2022. Circulations (@ Sunrise). Ongoing newsletter series by ONEIRIC SPACE.
2019. www.oneiric.space. Online publication by ONEIRIC SPACE.
2016. Lit in Berlin. Newsletter.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Atmos
British Journal of Photography
C Magazine
NOON
Museum of Dreams
AnOther
Are.na Editorial
AIGA Eye on Design
The Creative Independent
Broccoli Magazine
Garage/Vice
DAZED
FOAM Magazine
mono.kultur
Newsweek
Kinfolk
FAR-NEAR
KING KONG Magazine
SELECTED BRANDED EDITORIAL &
CONTENT WRITING CLIENTS
AMBUSH®
Aeyde
Mytheresa
Fritz Hansen
GOAT
artek
Vyrao
Zalando
MINI
Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen
Helmholtz Information & Data Science Academy (HIDA)
Kickstarter
Factory Berlin
Startup Guide
One Click LCA
IGNANT Productions
A. Lange & Söhne
SELECTED PRESS
Friends of Friends
Clot Magazine
Flash Art
Sleek
Metal Magazine
MagCulture