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I write, research, publish, and assemble gatherings alongside friends and collaborators.
I’m interested in cultivating modes of storytelling and space-making that embrace openness and move beyond dualistic frameworks. My work emerges from daily contemplative practices—such as dream journalling, meditation, and deep listening—and explores their potential to nurture the mind-body connection and ripple outward into relationships with oneself, others, and the natural world.
Guided by both intuition and independent research, my projects have taken the form of writing, experimental publishing, multimedia installations, and participatory readings. At the heart of my work is my ongoing engagement with nightly dreams, Zen Buddhism, and Daoist thought.
I initiated and continue to tend ONEIRIC SPACE, an ever-evolving research project that reflects on how dreams intertwine with waking life, at both the personal and collective levels. It also examines the social, cultural, and historical conditions that elevate certain knowledge systems and narrative forms while marginalizing others.
I also provide editorial consulting, content writing, and strategy services to companies, brands, and institutions.
Born in Toronto, I live and work in Berlin.
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RESIDENCIES, FELLOWSHIPS & GRANTS
2024. Canada Council for the Arts, Research and Creation grant
2024. Est-Nord-Est Résidence d’artistes. Quebec, Canada
2023. Stiftung Künstlerdorf Schöppingen. Schöppingen, Germany
2021. Temporars Susch residency/Muzeum Susch. Susch, Switzerland
GATHERINGS & READINGS
2025. Touching into Dream Waters with Marwa Zein. Workshop and shared meal. For the series ‘Through the Cracks,’ curated by Armeghan Taheri for Goethe Institut in Exile, at ACUD Galerie. Berlin, Germany.
2025. Dream Spheres with Laurel Schwulst and Nick Koppenhagen. Workshop at Trust. Berlin, Germany.
2024. the breath of water and wind. ONEIRIC SPACE participatory reading. Naive Yearly, organized by Kristoffer Tjalve, at the Museum of Architecture and Design Ljubljana. Ljubljana, Slovenia
2024. Dream Spiral: ONEIRIC SPACE with 0ct0p0s/Nick Koppenhagen. Dream-sharing session. ‘non-linear constructions,’ organized by Monika Dorniak, at Insola and Dammweg. Berlin, Germany
2024. Wading Thru Dreams, 2gether. ONEIRIC SPACE participatory reading. ‘There has to be smth in the room’ exhibition, curated by Alzbeta Cermakova, at ACUD Galerie. Berlin, Germany
2024. Wading Thru Dreams, 2gether with Siestaria. ONEIRIC SPACE participatory reading. Vorspiel x kwia. Berlin, Germany
2024. fluid as melting ice. dreamXchange Guided Sessions x ONEIRIC SPACE. On Discord.
2023. Wading Thru Dreams, 2gether. ONEIRIC SPACE participatory reading.
Burg Hülshoff – Center for Literature, as part of the Denkfabrik program. Münster, Germany
2023. Wading Thru Dreams, 2gether. ONEIRIC SPACE participatory reading. Stiftung Künstlerdorf Schöppingen, as part of its Curated for Advanced Practices: Beyond Literature program. Schöppingen, Germany.
2023. Dipping into Dreams. ONEIRIC SPACE reading-workshop. Stiftung Künstlerdorf Schöppingen. Schöppingen, Germany.
2021. Dreamscapes: DADDY Magazine x ONEIRIC SPACE. Collaborative event. Callie’s. Berlin, Germany.
2020. Anxiety Release Reading. ONEIRIC SPACE reading with Edna Bonhomme, Mert Akbal, Charmaine de Heij, Nadia Marcus. Haus am Lützowplatz, as part of the ‘It was all a dream’ exhibition, curated by Laura Helena Wurth. Berlin, Germany
2019. ONEIRIC SPACE launch. Readings & conversation with Anna Nowicka. The Black Lodge. Berlin, Germany
INDEPENDENT RESEARCH & PUBLISHING
2025. Circulations (@ Sunrise) 006 ~ Neuroscientist Sidarta Ribeiro on sleep in animals, dream-sharing as cultural innovation, and dreaming for the common good. Newsletter.
2024. Circulations (@ Sunrise) 005 ~ Artist Daniel Godínez Nivón on Indigenous understandings of dreams and delving into nonhuman dreaming worlds. Newsletter.
2024. Circulations (@ Sunrise) 004 ~ Interdisciplinary scholar Sharon Sliwinski on the political potential of disclosing dreams to others. Newsletter.
2023. Circulations (@ Sunrise) 003 ~ Artist and researcher Mina Heydari-Waite on how dream-sharing can open up new perspectives into our collective waking realities. Newsletter.
2023. Dream Matter. Artist’s book published by ONEIRIC SPACE. Available at Printed Matter or by email.
2023. Circulations (@ Sunrise) 002 ~ Poet and healer Goitseone Montsho on a series of dreams that led to reconnecting with the Sangoma traditions of her South African ancestors. Newsletter.
2022. Circulations (@ Sunrise) 001 ~ Writer and artist Manisha Anjali on the intimacy and imaginative potential of sharing dreams. Newsletter.
2022. Circulations (@ Sunrise). Ongoing newsletter series by ONEIRIC SPACE.
2019. www.oneiric.space. Online publication by ONEIRIC SPACE.
2016. Lit in Berlin. Newsletter.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Atmos
British Journal of Photography
C Magazine
NOON
INDIE
FAR-NEAR
Museum of Dreams
AnOther
Are.na Editorial
AIGA Eye on Design
The Creative Independent
Broccoli Magazine
Mushroom People
Garage/Vice
DAZED
FOAM Magazine
mono.kultur
Newsweek
TWIN magazine
Kinfolk
KING KONG Magazine
Mildew Magazine
SELECTED BRANDED EDITORIAL &
CONTENT WRITING CLIENTS
AMBUSH®
Aeyde
Mytheresa
Fritz Hansen
GOAT
artek
Vyrao
Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen
Helmholtz Information & Data Science Academy (HIDA)
Kickstarter
Factory Berlin
Startup Guide
One Click LCA
IGNANT Productions
A. Lange & Söhne
Bucherer
Zalando
MINI
SELECTED PRESS
Friends of Friends
Clot Magazine
Flash Art
Sleek
Metal Magazine
MagCulture