I'm a writer, curator and educator working with sound, visual art, and material culture, with a focus on musical instruments as political and historical agents. I am currently a PhD researcher and FWO fellow at LUCA/KU Leuven, where I study the ideological and material histories of musical instruments, particularly bells, across shifting colonial and post-Soviet geographies.
From 2021 to 2023, I curated You Can’t Trust Music (YCTM), a digital program at e-flux, commissioning texts and performances by artists including Ryuichi Sakamoto, Nicolás Jaar, Felicia Atkinson and Steve Reich. This took place in the framework of a longer research trajectory around sound, time and place: In 2022, I co-directed The Weapon of Theory as a Conference of the Birds with Ayesha Hameed, Suzanne Kite, and Jota Mombaça at the Banff Centre for the Arts. In 2025 I co-organized the symposium THE RING at the Hague which concerned musical instruments as timekeeping agents, and in 2026 I curated a program for Sonic Acts biennial around overlaps between organology and the corporeal. I give regular lectures and seminars about sound and music, for example at the Tate, Bard CCS and Kunsthall Trondheim.
I write about art for Frieze, Texte zur Kunst, and e-flux. I also write about music, for The Wire. Recent projects include a research fellowship at the National Gallery of Canada (2024) on the colonial histories of carillons and bell towers, and a research fellowship at Harvard University focused on pre-christian bell ringing in 2026. Some books are coming out soon too: On Glass, Metal and Worms (Wolke Press, 2026) and See Through Music (Silver Press, 2027).
