I'm a Canadian 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 KU Leuven in Brussels, where I study the ideological and material histories of bells across shifting colonial and post-Soviet geographies.
This project began with research grants from the Canada Council for the Arts in 2017 and in 2021, when I produced the manuscript The Sky’s Like a Bell—the Moon Is Its Tongue , which became the title of my PhD. It further developed at the Tate in 2023, during my War Art Fellowship at the National Gallery in 2024 and through the Orpheus Fellowship in 2025. Some research was also published as a chapter in Bodies of Sound (Silver Press, 2024). In 2026 it continues at Harvard University, where I am a Davis Center fellow focused on the choreographies of bell ringing.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. I'm coming back there in 2027 with Kathryn Yusoff and Elina Waage Mikalsen for Sounding Like a Mountain. 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 Bard CCS and Kunsthall Trondheim.
I often write about art for Frieze, Texte zur Kunst, and e-flux. I also write about music, for The Wire. Recent book chapters include Coming Through in Listenings (2025), edited by Candice Hopkins and Dylan Robinson and Transmissions from the Radio Midnight, with Aki Onda in La Materia de Sonido (gris tormenta, 2026). Some books are coming out soon too: UNDERPLANET : some collective materialities (Wolke Press, 2026) and See Through Music (Silver Press, 2027) by Annea Lockwood for which I wrote the introduction.
