As a scholar with a creative practice, my research explores the poetics of governance: the forms that governance assumes, and the types of engagements incited by those forms. The awareness of this poetic dimension has a subtle yet subversive power, able to denaturalize normative structures and to suggest new connections between abstract principles and everyday activities. For this reason, I investigate media and technologies that are experienced on an intimate level (webcam sex platforms, pornography, online domesticity, water governance), which present opportunities to observe and experience affective engagements,innovative uses, and resistances. Given the complex environment in which these arrangements unfold, a poetic engagement both attests to the impact of prescriptive discourses and makes room for alternatives.
I cultivate a practice where concepts have a potential for action. A disposition toward movement allows for the encounter between ideas and methods, which I apply to theoretical inquiries, artistic research, and academic settings. Formally, I engage with abstract matters through practices that disrupt habitual meanings, using humor, play, poetry, or performative interventions as methods, resignifying the seemingly stable through unexpected uses or contexts. Through an original combination of critical inquiry and creative practice, I have contributed to media studies and artistic research by investigating technologies of intimacy,the poetics of governance, and research-creation methods. These contributions have been expressed through publications, artwork and media outcomes, presentations, the establishment of international research net-works, and community engagement.