I create immersive experience, theater, interactive installations, large scale sculptures, and mixed media visual arts. I’m fascinated with the unique potentials of each form to achieve a common goal. I see art as our way of dreaming in group. Our sleeping dreams help us consolidate memories, revisit challenge, tend the limbic system, heal trauma, rehearse new learnings, and creatively iterate. All art forms hold the intrinsic capacity to facilitate group dreaming. Since I started working in immersive arts and gamified live experience, I see my whole artistic journey as culminating in trans-media live interactive story-making which provides unique opportunities for audiences and artists to collaborate in the moment.
Theater is my initial and core craft. I’ve worked as an actor, director, and scriptwriter. Creating interactive installations, I shifted my focus to include art direction and experience design, using visual art to create place and live facilitation to shape meaning-making interactions. With large scale sculpture, I see making these massive works as a sort of mega mnemonic. The shifted proportions activate our dream intelligence to attend to the moment with acute attention. This is how memories are made.
My recent works have been commissioned by large arts and music festivals and performed or exhibited all around the country.
I live on Chinook land in Portland, OR, near the shores of the Willamette River with my husband Fez BeGaetz and my daughter Calliope Kenna BeGaetz.