I am gonna keep my old 2011 profile here as a time capsule of a more energized me, holy cow. I'm logging in for the first time since then and it's strange to see. A good reminder not to let pragmatism exhaust me!

Anyway, headed to a conference on Embodied Cognition at UC Irvine, host me host me!

real profile 2016:
performance/video/installation artist, graduate student at UC Berkeley in Body Conscious Design, student of the Alexander Technique. Trying to get through my Saturn return with authenticity in the face of heavy burdens. SOS yall let us not grow weary.

ancient 2011 profile:
CURRENT MISSION
eating my own head

ABOUT ME
I like reading about design history, building things, working on collaborative projects, thinking about community structures and dynamics, watching movies, dancing, organizing things into systems, the way my mouth feels when i speak french, reading out loud to myself in Swedish.
I'm studying architecture, set design, & architectural or dance lighting design at Bennington College in Vermont, and hopefully I'll become a set designer extraordinaire for film and a lighting designer for public spaces.

PHILOSOPHY
currently aiming for optimism and honesty. seeking voraciously for an artform (?) to unite people in ecstatic moaning apocalyptic harmony.

also
THE IMMENSE JOY OF STANDING ON A CHAIR
current project: exploring the body in varied elevations and climbable dynamic spaces.
playgrounds, furniturescapes

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING
2016:
I live with my landlord so I can't host but this site changed my life in Atlanta 2011 so here I am again in 2016 for Irvine.

2011:
after february 23rd 2011, i'll have a couch for you to stay on in a big windowed common room at Bennington College.
700 kids alone in the woods...
my location is "pending" because i left for winter break before the post card came.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

i haven't surfed or hosted yet, but i became good friends with some surfers while they were surfing with friends of mine in Paris.

Interests

2016: somatics, learning and movement, Alexander Technique, Body Conscious Design, design history, performance, puppers, and everything I listed in 2010 but more mutely

2011:
furniturescapes, community dynamics and how they can be affected by lighting & city&bldg layouts, languages/sounds, etymology, film, food, animation, food, film, lamps, food, historical linguistics, couches, botany, birds, architecture, Luis Barragan, industrial design, clever cheap green design, Verner Panton couching changed my life, music music music SPACE installations and drawings. sixties mod looking verner panton rooms, dry empty buildings, finding funny nooks and crannies in cities, climbing things, kayaking, MY DOG.
the body in space, the body in costume, the body in light, dance, the voice, out of body experiences via chanting, via butoh, the physics of light and sound, poetry, the phenomenology of language. verner panton and 60s radical design, brazilian neoconcretism, Luis Barragan.

• poetry
• architecture
• design
• dancing
• movies
• animation
• etymology
• languages
• somatics
• alexander technique

Music, Movies, and Books

2016: I remember nothing

2011:
last movie watched and liked: Solaris by Tarkovsky
other movies:
Badlands, The Silence, Solaris, Through a Glass Darkly, A Clockwork Orange, Why Does Herr R. Run Amok?, Winter Light, Dirty Diaries, Natural Born Killers, Pom Poko, Gummo, City of God, The Marriage of Maria Braun, Blue Velvet, Soylent Green, Paprika, Lola, Harold and Maude, When We Were Kings, The Science of Sleep, The Triplets of Belleville, Metropolis, American Psycho, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Life Of Brian, The Life Aquatic, The Princess Bride

current books: The Flivver King by Upton Sinclair. books on shaker furniture, brazilian neoconcretism, luis barragan, mexican modernsim.
book i keep trying to read: The Poetics of Space by gaston bachelard.

MUSIC: the shangri las, little richard, miriam makeba, lil wayne, biggie, the violent femmes, lou reed, captain beefheart, miriam makeba, the cramps, booker t. and the mgs, caetano veloso, os mutantes, gal costa, de la soul, janis joplin, the beach boys, the beatles, The Velvet Underground, the black lips, david bowie, bobby vinton, brian eno, the brian jonestown massacre, cake, captain beefheart and his magic band, frank zappa and the mothers, cecil taylor talking, dan deacon and SUNY Purchase pride, Dave Van Ronk, Leadbelly, Deerhoof, Deer Hunter, Department of Eagles, Feist, Devendra Banhardt and Megapuss, Fela Kuti, Elvis Presley, Django Reinhardt, Jackson 5, James Brown, Jonny Cash, Nirvana, Nina Simone, Os Mutantes, Paul Simon, Queen, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, RAY CHARLES, little richard, miriam makeba, the rolling stones, sam cook, sly and the family stone, the stooges, sun ra, the supremes, syd barrett, toots and the maytalls, wolfmother

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

2016:
watched a cow be artificially inseminated :-/

2011:
peed in a poland spring bottle while driving
was an au pair for assholes for an ENTIRE SCHOOL YEAR

Teach, Learn, Share

2016: I'm a student of the Alexander Technique and Body Conscious Design. Excited to learn about whatever youre into if you love it

2011:
i'd like to learn about anything you're passionate about. i.e. search engines or artificial intelligence or leatherworking or welding or woodworking or farming or animal breeding or forestry or whatever, as long as you're passionate i'm happy to listen.

What I Can Share with Hosts

2016: my grace and snacks.

Countries I’ve Visited

Spain, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, United States

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