SciArt Talk Show for CosmoQuest Community Coffee
This year I somehow managed to sign myself up to create and host a weekly live sciart talk show on astronomy and art. Here’s the behind the scenes story on how it all happened! I stumbled into the CosmoQuest community…
Artistically Speaking: A New Series with Thinker Guide
One of the themes that has been coming up recently in my life is the need to talk about art. It’s something that is definitely lacking in Pakistan. It only happens about once a year at the Lahore Literacy Festival,…
First Contact: A Collaboration with Milivoj Šegan
First Contact is a multimedia performance, blending digital light paintings projected onto the body. It is an experiment more than anything, but the story behind it is full of odd connections and good timing. Unexpected Collaborations One of the things…
Post-Colonial Approaches to Cultural Fusion
When I lived in Cambodia, I heard a lot about “fusion” pieces when international choreographers came and worked with Cambodian dancers. Fusion is an exciting word and promises something new and innovative. The Holy Grail of cross cultural choreography, one…
The Wormhole: Reflections on Deep Cultural Shifts
The body moves quickly, but the soul is slow, catching up only after time. There is obviously more to say about cultural shifts. Today, I’m just talking about the wormhole. In astronomy, a wormhole is a theoretical structure that connects…
The Glitch: A Science Fiction Short Story
Excerpt of The Glitch: A science fiction short story. Read the full story in my short story collection! Hex and me weren’t rich, never had been. We lived in the slums by the docks, rumbling all night as the rockets…
Explorer Ready (Or Not): Art and Astronomy
I have always loved art and astronomy. When I was little, I loved reading Seymour Simon’s picture books about the planets. When my sisters and I started a newsletter called “Girls Express” for our homeschooling, I researched and wrote articles…
Quarantine Qreations: Performing in Lockdown
When the lockdown hit, I was in the fragile and fraught liftoff stages of getting my own production off the ground. I was about to lock a huge sponsor, I had confirmed my cast, and rehearsals were two weeks into…
Vida and The Void – Gallery
Vida and The Void was performed for a special edition of Sway With Us at Olomopolo. The occasion was Remembering Jahanara, in memory of a young dancer who was killed. The piece was about someone coming to terms with their…
With Love From Gillian at The Colony – Gallery
With Love From Gillian is a piece about courage and loss and resilience – but mostly, it’s a piece about performance. It is a piece that requires me to give all of myself to the audience – everything that I…