21st Century Art practices can be hard to define, especially as an artist when you work in interdisciplinary or transdisciplinary ways. As artists, we often work in a place where we do not know (Fisher, Fortnum, 2013) during our processes. 

Using my Body as research includes documentation of art and life alongside multiple artistic mediums, performance art practices, curation and writing.  Additionally, through this process, the Body's lived experience and medical narratives are included, and specific knowledge, connections, and understandings are produced. 

To understand this more profoundly, I have been documenting all of the above in my archives since 2017. This process is a dysmorphic archive of practice that documents a collective universal yet personal understanding of the Body in the 21st Century. 

In my archive and practice work is critically examined as art and no artistic medium is privileged over the other, yet viewed as a holistic practice approach to embodied research. Additionally this approach includes reflective theoretical and philosophical research. 

The Artist's Body is an Archive is based on my belief and practice of the mind-body connection, using my Body as research and material, as well as the accompanying learnings, experiences, theory, exhibition visits, talks, workshops and reading in the arts and humanities. 
This Archive is the beginning of bringing it all together. While attempting to continue to document each Body of Work as I make it, why and what I am researching at the time. Which artists, writers, and events have impacted me and why? 

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