Uma Breakdown
I got nominated to submit a thing to this. Beyond happy to be asked. Brutal word limit.
Statement For Tetley Jerwood Commission, October 2020
My practice lives in the overlap between queer feminist philosophy and theories of literature, speculative horror, and the collaborative exchange of role playing games. As a disabled artist I’m interested in how each of these areas offer their own respective languages and approaches to instability, brokenness, love, and affect.
My work asks how uncertainty and the encounter with difference can be made welcoming and empathetic. I explore this question through open and experimental practices of writing and image making that welcome the audience as collaborator. From these collaborative processes I produce texts, games, diagrams, videos, sculptures, radio plays, lectures and performances. In each instance my work centres expressions of solidarity while inviting the speculation of horror
This year I made a plant sentience RPG for KIM? In Latvia, published an article on a Russian horror game and Hélène Cixous’s writing on death, and wrote a scifi story on trauma, SSRIs and Antonin Artaud. I also finished a PhD mostly about Deleuze, The X Files, and dogs.
Fig1: Planning Diagram for this commission proposal.
