In August of 2021 I conceived and participated in a Residency called BRINK for LGBTQIA+ identifying artists, to spend ten days in the Nayland Rock Hotel and respond to the site and the concept of the brink.

In my practice the brink manifests as a threshold site, a liminal space between disposition and opposition, development and destruction. I began a conversation with the hotel, a site itself in transition, to create a research narrative around trans sites as the personal, cognitive and physical; and the public realm, societal and sub cultural.

Through movement, make up and pulling parts of the hotel around myself I became a number of spectral avatars, of the sites materiality, of previous hotel guests and my own experience of otherness in public space.

I produced three portraits, two films and a performance that layered these new pieces together through projectors, screens and live vocal performance