What are you working on at the moment?
I have been busy with our residency; we took over an old building in the Alps and set up our visual atelier and music studio there, and are now inviting collaborators, organising concerts, artist residencies, and a cafe for locals… putting energy into building a mountain community and finding new meaningful ways of being together with friends, artists, and strangers.
Other than that, I am working on music for a new EP! I have interwoven a lot of anger and sadness into my natural surrounding landscapes here, read about old local rituals, let the swamp / forests / seasons around here affect me deeply—it’s sometimes a bit like in a Studio Ghibli film… and all this nature that entangles is flowing back into the EP.
My current parallel visual work mainly focuses on imagining new creature identities for these new songs; thinking about what shapes, textures, elements and emotions I want to physically transform into for the upcoming concerts.
And then I’m writing lyrics for the next album; a very lustful, playful, sentient sci-fi world into which I throw lots of desires…
Do you have a daily ritual?
Going singing outside. I arrive in the day fully when my body and voice can resonate together with the weather and ambiance and my senses open up fully. I also move my body briefly every day to check-in, make it soft where it has become stiff.
On good days, I find 20 minutes to sit down and read, to invite in outside perspectives and get inspired by someone else’s thoughts. Excited to learn and grow every day a little bit into a direction I care about…
What do you listen to while working?
Constantly changing. I usually listen to the same music for a couple of days on repeat and try to archive my life phases through songs by connecting experiences and feelings to them.
I want to get more into the habit of sending songs to friends, receiving their music in return, and listening to the radio more often to discover new artists. Also getting back into vinyls…
Which book do you like to gift?
Barely ever done! But I’ve been sharing pics of paragraphs of books with friends, at the moment mainly from texts about relationships, poetry about slime and moss, myths, and broader texts that try to explain and dissect human behaviour to make it feel less overwhelming…
Which art work would you like to have at home?
I actually haven’t been in a position to build a home before now. My life has been too nomadic and DIY and so I really enjoyed visiting other environments and looking at art in places where it’s put into context. The idea of building one’s own nest and finding symbolic elements for it is beautiful though.
Your favourite exhibition venue in Berlin?
I’m really into special locations, undiscovered corners, repurposed spaces, and unexpected combinations…
What accessory or object could you not be without?
Headphones! So I can listen to music whenever I want to. A little sketchbook to capture thoughts as they appear in order to remember them. A voice recording option, usually my phone, to record spontaneous ideas or soundscapes around me…
What keeps you going?
I’m a dreamy person… so always something floating around my head!
I think the lust for expressing and sharing emotions. I find it moving to invite people into my inner worlds. Also, a big wish for connection in an authentic, vulnerable way. I crave to build bridges into alternative worlds.
I really enjoy working with people, and diving into creative practices together is a very fulfilling social interaction to me.
Who would you like to meet?
Björk, Patti Smith… gosh, the witches of the olden days, hypersensitive people who felt nature and the world around and themselves radically, adventurers who found inspiring ways of life…
What do you look forward to after you’ve finished work?
I enjoy the deep calm relaxing moment that follows the adrenaline rush from a show. Once I’ve done my part, I feel curious to see people interacting with my work… I like the activity of cleaning up the mess, let the experience resonate in me, taking time to digest what just happened and reflecting about what I want to do differently next time. Often, I also feel a bit sad that it’s over… then I start imagining new work and focussing on what’s coming next.