I work across bioart and performance and also write a lot. I have a stubbornly transdisciplinary background: in fact, I studied political sciences with a focus on environment, trained in new media and composition, am a plant geek and self-taught symbiotic and ecological observer.
Today, my research hybridizes biolab practice, biotechnology, ecology, queer and death studies, with a healthy dose of hacking attitude. My installations and performances hunt the surging ecological complexity and talk about the way embodiment and environment are always imbricated.
I see my work as a garden crawling with genetically edited bacteria, cells extracted from my body, sex hormones, microbial biofilm, bovine blood, slugs, growing plants and decomposing biological remains. In such garden, I am only a guest.
I would not be the artist and researcher I am today without the many collaborations with practitioners from different disciplines in art, science and humanities. Together with Marco Donnarumma and Andrea Familari, I recently co-founded the artists’ group Fronte Vacuo to realize performances made of bodies, symbionts, sounds, machines and images.
In 2023 I finished a doctorate in Artistic Research at Aalto University on biological arts and queer theory, supported by the Kone Foundation. I am a member of the Finnish Bioart Society and the Queer Death Studies Network, and affiliated researcher of The Posthumanities Hub and the Eco- and Bioart Lab.