Curatorial Practice
Participation-centered live art and performance curation for theatres, exhibitions, and public programs.
I curate from embodied research. Projects invite audiences to become co-authors of meaning, and participants choose how they engage.
Adaptive Ethical Participation
Creating frameworks where consent, safety, and intersectional access shape how participants choose to engage. I use facilitation tools drawn from conflict transformation such as mapping tensions and relationships, perspective-taking, and collaborative reframing to ensure each participant can set their own boundaries within the collective process.
Philosophy
A Dialogic, Pedagogical Framework for Assembly
Transdisciplinary Bridging
Merging visual and performing arts through participatory scores, installations, and performative lectures. This approach adapts methods from arts education, peacebuilding, and performance research to explore how collective authorship and curatorial process can coexist.
Sustained Engagement
Each project extends beyond the event through digital and dialogic tools:
Digital tools: post-event reflections via online voice journals or short guided videos.
Follow-up prompts: written or audio invitations that participants receive after an event to continue reflection.
Co-created documentation: collaborative notes, sketches, or short recordings that archive participants’ insights and feedback, forming an evolving public record of shared learning.
From Method to Encounter
Through performance-based methods and reflective writing, each project creates spaces where language and movement are reimagined as tools for inclusion and belonging. These methods invite participants to experiment with new ways of relating—first within the workshop setting, then through public encounters that extend those learnings into collective experience.
As exhibitions and performances unfold, dialogue, sensory awareness, and collaboration become both the process and the material of the work. The insights generated in rehearsal and reflection translate into gestures, scores, and shared actions that bring audiences into participatory relation.
By integrating theory and lived experience, this practice cultivates embodied insight, relational trust, and adaptive ethics within artistic and curatorial contexts. The outcomes are live works that invite reflection, expand perception, and model how social justice can be activated through creative, communal practice.
Autoethnographic sketches and writing by workshop participant, Ehsan Mehrbakhsh
Work with Me
I collaborate with institutions, artists, and educators to design theatre and dance performances, performance-led exhibitions, site-specific encounters, and public programs. Each collaboration begins through dialogue—listening to context, needs, and intentions—to shape a process grounded in care and participation.
Together we can develop projects that connect embodied research with curatorial design, transforming ideas into live encounters that invite reflection and collective engagement.