Pride Month did not arrive polished and corporate. It arrived at the end of a truncheon. A history of Stonewall, the first UK Pride march, and how Second Pride in Second Life carries that lineage into virtual space.
This last year has been one of the most intense and formative periods of my art life. Not just because of what I made, but because of what the practice became. It stopped being a collection of pieces and started being an ecosystem: physical, digital, written, performed, archived, and very much alive.
This past year has been about selfhood under pressure: the strange labour of staying human while surrounded by noise, screens, memory, illness, grief, digital intimacy, and the constant demand to perform a version of yourself. My work has circled presence, attention, and survival. I have been exploring how identity forms in fragments: through virtual worlds, … Read more