Is this the right thing to be doing?’ is a lecture performance, fungal-fantasy, and love story. Set mutably at an ecology conference, I play a rotating cast of shapeshifting characters: a fumbling academic facing technical error, a lamenting cargoship, a keynote speaker-turned-mushroom, and myself caught between facts and fiction. Each character/version of self grapples with the uncertain grief and hope of  siloed living amidst disaster. Featuring wearable sculpture, miniatures, surreal storytelling and physical theatre the work humorously questions humans’ entangled place in the world and asks what might we learn from the non-human networks growing beneath our feet, and circulating around us.

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The project was first presented by Risk/Reward Festival in 2024 at Portland Institute for Contemporary Arts, and will have its full premiere in Vancouver, BC in 2025.