Research Focus

Drawing on affect theory, constructed emotion, and psychoanalytic thought, my work understands emotion as a form of lived knowledge (Barrett, 2017). It arises through the body’s interaction with its environment—shaped by memory, culture, and prediction, yet capable of slipping beyond them.

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Catharsis & Awareness

Rather than seeing catharsis as release or purification, I approach it as a moment of heightened awareness: a shift in perception where suppressed or unarticulated feeling becomes tangible. Catharsis is cyclical, emergent, and bodily.

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Serendipity & Disruption

Serendipity plays a central role in my practice. Unplanned sensory events—an unexpected vibration, a shift of light, a fragment of sound—interrupt habitual patterns and open emotional thresholds. These moments often appear before thought, and only later become meaningful.

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Liminance

At the heart of my research is the concept of Liminance:
a threshold state where serendipity, sensory awareness, and the limits of language converge to form embodied catharsis.

Liminance describes:

- the resonance between self and environment

- the moment when perception becomes expressive

- when the unsaid becomes felt

- where emotion moves freely between body and space

This framework guides both my artistic methodology and my understanding of art’s social function.

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Methods & Experiments

Embodied Workshops

I created Experimental Laboratories where participants are invited into nonverbal forms of expression. These sessions explore:

• movement and stillness

• vocalization and breath

• touch, balance, and spatial sensitivity

• generative instructions based on symbolic–emotional language

These experiments reveal how artistic processes can expand emotional granularity and activate expressions previously out of reach. The Experimental Laboratory will continue in further research.

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Collaborations

My research is shaped by long-term collaborations with dancers, musicians, videographers, photographers and scenographers. Their embodied responses bring the conceptual framework into lived form, allowing theory to unfold through gesture, rhythm, and atmosphere.​

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Site-Based Practice

My upcoming work will be presented in May 2026 at the historic ENCI Silo in Maastricht.
Its raw concrete architecture, industrial past, and resonant acoustics create a naturally immersive setting—one that amplifies concepts of Liminance, catharsis, and sensory threshold.

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Purpose

My artistic research aims to create spaces where:

- emotion becomes perceptible beyond language

- sensory experience becomes a shared form of understanding

- individuals can encounter themselves and one another with renewed awareness

Through sound, movement, light, and serendipity, I investigate how art can restore our capacity to feel, connect, and recognize each other in ways that words cannot reach.