I work with video, drawing, collage and painting, activating the intersections between these disciplines in installation contexts. My practice pays close attention to personal, national archives and social encounters that centre marginalised and misunderstood subcultures. I have worked with amateur wrestlers, drag queens, publicans, genderqueer punk musicians, translators, writers and poets to develop collaborative, multilingual installations that combine moving image essays with cut-and-paste collage interventions. I tend to embrace a lo-fi, experimental approach to shooting and editing, favouring handheld footage, abrupt montage and glitched images. This formal vocabulary allows the work to remain porous, reflecting process, rumour and misremembering, rather than the compliance of cinematic polish.
My approach to making is queer in form and method. It legitimates desire, parasociality, fannish attachment and non-linear association as valuable modes of knowledge production. Rather than aiming for narrative authority or tidy historiography, the work seeks out slippages, contradictions and informal archives where unofficial histories are held.