Thank you! The website builds on ideas of layers and cut-outs. I wanted the website to be an extension of what I was thinking about in the videos, installations and performances and another place my videos can be experienced. However, it is a constantly evolving process and I am about to re-make my website completely. So I think of it as an online sketchbook.

When I was 18, I made a video where I interviewed a butcher –that was the beginning, and from that moment I was addicted to the medium. This was at the same time that video / photography on mobile phones was beginning to be better quality so the idea of recording became more accessible and instant. I remember that at this time, I printed out every photo on my phone and made a physical photo album. This is something I would never dream of doing today because I take up to 50 images a day and so the limits of memory are completely redefined through web 2.0 and technology.

I think the instant and the spontaneous is really appealing. I like the idea of a single moment that is either shared or missed. I explore ideas around the “instant” in my installations: I have a very short attention span and would never want other people to be bored when watching my work. I like the idea of moving quickly (get in, get out, move on). However, many of my videos are also slower-paced with complicated and layered narratives. So, some of work is meant to be watched more slowly. I also write a lot, which has a different time and I make monoprints which although are quick, are hand-made and not ephemeral.

For me, screens work as skins. They are the closest technology to the body, mirroring a corporeal technology that happens inside.

These women are all experts in their field and this is inspirational and powerful. I include producers more than I include consumers and I ask them to work with me in order to highlight contemporary strength in different forms. I think of these women as being versions of myself but to retain their sense and purpose of self so that they become characters within a narrative. They have to perform a certain role when they become part of work –it is a scripted process although collaborative. The process is collaborative but I am still the author of the work.

Princess Belsize Dollar is a formal way of thinking through my concerns around the messiness of sound, text and visual pleasure. PBD is my rapper name –when I rap I feel sexy and in control but, at the same time, awkward and alien.

Sushi, sex, nails, pregnancy, insomnia, saliva, sweat… The raps were audio versions of the installations, performed and embedded.

I am interested in the presentation of the visceral tensions between performance, body and brain in online and offline spaces. I find the overlapping of virtual and real space really exciting and this excitement becomes a material I play with within the work. Bodymapping, profiling, hyper technology and imagined territories are all constantly reworked, remodelled and then broken down.
I am constantly on my phone documenting the real: sending pictures of my body across the world, looking up medical symptoms online, inputting personal data into an app, etc. This crudeness is problematic as well as seductive.

I really enjoyed the public aspect to the program at Site Gallery –the model that the working studio became a site for live rehearsals, performance and video, print and sculpture. I also appreciated the duration of the project, which meant that the research was able to develop over the time of the residency in an organic way. My residency culminated in a large-scale performance and an installation that saw all my research during the residency come together. The process at the Irma Stern was the exact opposite, very intimate and quiet, where the filming took place at the museum –I worked alone and edited the footage once I was back in my studio in London.

I feel that there is no difference in the way people respond to the representation and performance of the female body within online space and real space. All over the world, people are experiencing their own mediation of body through technology and this is something that is shared.