HI THERE, I AM
Luisé
Drawing on public fluidity interventions, I create interactive works, such as wearable sculptures and audience-activated installations, that explore how the body is politicized through themes of migration and gender. My current research is an exploration of water, migration and belonging as a dynamic happening across indigenous cosmologies, including the work of Leanne Betasamosake Simpson and Robin Wall Kimmerer, queer ecological thought as Cleo Wölfflin Hazard, and the politics of migration through the work of Helen Ngo and Judith Butler.
The interrogation identity within my practice reflects the relationship to a place through both how it orients the individual and is thus embodied, as well as how it facilitates and prohibits a sense of belonging.At the centre of my practice is the concept of belonging, but not an expression of identity so much as a questioning, dissection, and scrutinization of it.
