RECENT PROJECTS
Work developed through participatory practice,
installation and performance
“Art is a state of encounter.” — Nicolas Bourriaud, Relational Aesthetics (1998)
“The right to the city is a right to shape it.” — David Harvey, Rebel Cities (2012)
“To be truly visionary we must stay rooted in everyday life.” — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress (1994)
A PARADISE OF DISPLACEMENT (2025)
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A large-scale participatory installation and research project developed at Ingenuity, Cleveland. Across four activations, the work invited the public to contribute stories, memories and values, building a collective, living archive of the city.
Over three days, more than 1000 contributions were gathered, revealing a strong shared focus on love, belonging, care, mutual aid, education and cultural memory.
Participants mapped lost spaces, named places of care and expressed collective values through writing, drawing and public interaction.
The project demonstrated a clear appetite for creative civic participation and showed how listening, gathering and sharing community knowledge can shape cultural development.
It established a working method: listening → prototyping → public sharing → return, forming the basis for ongoing work.
“All that you touch you change. All that you change changes you.” — Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower (1993)
“All that you touch you change. All that you change changes you.” — Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower (1993)
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ARE WE NOT STRANGERS? (2025)
A participatory performance developed with Cleveland Public Theatre as part of Soft Launch 2026. Photos by Emmanuel Wallace.
Framed as a secret gathering, the work invited participants to read, exchange, listen and respond together, creating a temporary community through shared attention and small acts of connection.
Developed in response to increasing social isolation and the erosion of shared public space, the work draws on research around connection, care and third spaces — asking what it takes for people to meet meaningfully in the present.
This iteration functioned as a beta-test for participatory theatre methods that could support:
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community gathering
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social cohesion
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representation
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deliberative exchange & collective action
Drawing on principles of legislative theatre, the work explored how performance can act as a space to rehearse collective thinking and shared decision-making.
It established a framework for future projects, in which communities transition from participation to co-authorship and civic voice.
