work

For a more complete list of works, please see my CV.

Recent work: a poem in Semipermeable Press' zine The End and Split Ends, a reading at Centre A (the culmination of the 2024 Art Writing Mentorship).

Soft tongues: a bioacoustic opera

"The tongue of the frog is of the softest known biological materials on this planet. It is this softness that yields the stickiness needed to pluck a fly from mid air, slough skin in perpetual acts of self-consumption, and stretch voice in promulgating chorusing networks. Joined by bioacousticians, Jami’s field recorder, and an amphibious choir, Soft tongues invites full swamp submersion as a small audience listens episodically through the shapeshifting life (and afterlife) cycle of the frog."

Text Credit: Jami Reimer

Vitreous Bodies

Live Acts Festival April 2024 [show link/full credits]

An original work of performance and expanded cinema. Vitreous Bodies explores fluid states of self via the story of three cult-cinema superfans and their favourite queer cannibal horror movie.

Image Credit: Siqi (Suki) Xu

Serving Justice

November 2023 [project site/full credits]

"A subversive and colourful interpretation of the legal trial Little Sister’s Book and Art Emporium vs. the Ministry of Justice." An experiment in disobedient, playful re-enaction. Our research included visiting the folks at Little Sister's, combing through trial footage from the BC Gay and Lesbian Archives, and calling border security. Our performance included garbage-bag robes, lip-sync, and lingerie.

Skin and Bones

dir. James Long and Margaret Dragu, SFU, November 2023 [show link/full credits]

"Skin and Bones explores the "middle spaces" between theatre making, choral acts & performance art. Eleven students join performance/visual artist Margaret Dragu, sound artist Jami Reimer and theatre maker James Long to collaboratively create a performance that considers shared spaces and social contracts. The primary source material is a collection of short texts Dragu wrote about her own experiences negotiating public transit while recovering from two hip replacements."

Text Credit: James Long; Image Credit: Nico Dicecco

Strange Joy

Dir. Erika Latta, SFU, March 2023 [show link/full credits]

"Set on an indoor film set, the story follows the director and the team in the process of making a film. Taking the audience through the landscape of the movie set, we glimpse into the spectrum of desires, following the team both on and off the screen. The film crew becomes increasingly deranged as the days go by in his search for perfection, while they desperately try to find their way out of the obsessive loop, take after take and finish the film they set out to make.

Blurring the lines between installation, film, dance and theater, and taking inspiration from Day for Night / Le Nuit American by François Truffaut and documentaries of film set environments of legendary film directors, STRANGE JOY explores the behind-the-scenes of making a film."

Text Credit: Erika Latta; Image Credit: Diane Smithers

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