Works

Selected Performances, Shows and Publications

Hljóðeyja Soundwalk – VIS artistic research exposition, forthcoming, 2026
To Listen Without Owning – SICK magazine (UK), forthcoming, 2026
Cos-Play – Short film premiere, Vienna (AT), September 2025
Achiamma – Performative lecture, London (UK), August 2025
Group Exhibition – Festival of Cultures, Bern (CH), 2025
Nicht Ich – Poem published in Frankfurter Bibliothek des Zeitgenössischen Gedichts, 2025
Lines – Public performance with the unfra-me ensemble, Zurich (CH), July 2024
Home II – Solo performance, Festival of Cultures, Bern (CH), March 2024
Home I – Solo performance, Night of Museums, Bern (CH), March 2024
Filters – Solo performance, Biel (CH), November 2023

Link to more Live Performances & Publications

Individual Works

Hljóðeyja: The Art of Listening Otherwise (work in progress) – sound, body, and environment as co-listeners in non-extractive listening

Achiamma (launched 2025) – a digital grief map tracing diasporic memory, colonial legacy, and multisensory storytelling

Lines (performed 2024) – a poem and a series of performances exploring traces of memory and connection

Dis-Place: A Performative Archive (launched 2024) – an artist book connecting artefacts and memories through performance scores

Discrimination: A non-definitive Botanical Guide (exhibited 2025) – a commission for the Festival of Cultures (Bern, 2025)

Filters (performed 2023) and Cos-Play (short film, premiered 2025) – works exploring the tension between visibility and self-representation, exploring intimacy and memory

Zum Erlkönig (performed 2023) – a performance about violence, identity and memory

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