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Monograph in Development

An ongoing research project examining nonhuman agency, materiality, and communication in nineteenth-century theatre and performance. The project traces how moving bodies, objects, and technologies participated in emerging conceptualizations of touch and communication across distance.
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Last of the Rhinestone Cowboys:
Expo 67’s Sunset Years

A part-archival, part-fictocritical research project tracing the cowboy as a mytho-historical figure through questions of migration, nationhood, and cultural memory. Beginning with the elusive memory of a childhood performance of a South Asian band covering Glen Campbell’s hit song, Rhinestone Cowboy, at the Man and His World Summer Fair in the 1980s (Île Sainte-Hélène), which has proven difficult to locate in the archive, the project treats archival absence as a pivot from which to engage historical and creative practice. Supported by the Canada Council for the Arts.







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Dramaturgies of Distance: Sound, Itinerancy, and Epistolary Performance

Writings about letter-writing as a dramaturgy of delay, waiting, rerouting, and uncertain delivery. Moving between archival correspondence, contemporary installation, and recorded sound, it considers epistolary performance as a counter-archival form of intimacy across distance. Invited for presentation at PSI #31. Archipelagic Flows, Jakarta. The project emerges alongside a forthcoming Blood Heron recording, Pleasure Pier, with which it shares a conceptual terrain.




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