“"No one has yet determined what the body can do..." (Benedict De Spinoza)In an age of environmental collapse that threatens to end human existence, the questions I raise with my work include; what does it mean to be a body in the world, what are the forces acting on it, and what can a body hope to do? An immersive installation that combines gesticulating anthropomorphic sculptural objects and video of natural and artificial events, suggest the embeddedness of the body in the world, underscoring the enmeshed becoming of body and world through perpetual dynamic motion. In combining the two mediums with dramatic music in humorous and absurd ways, the lameness of the human vis-a-vis universal and earthly forces is exposed. Revealing the vanity of a relationality marked by dominance, control and competition. At the same time, the repetitive mechanical gestures of the anthropomorphic figures reinforce the propensity of human social, historical, cultural and material assemblages to resist change. But if the body is a guide, then I hope my work also suggests that any part can be a genesis for being otherwise. In creating moments of strange relationality between the body-objects and video through rhythms, gestures, oscillations, I allude to the body’s abundant possibilities to make kin with other species, entities, beings, objects. The body’s desire to relate and expand the possibilities for life. ”