Performance

Choreography // Performance Art // Music Videos // Art Direction

Laura performs in Owl, a music video for She Keeps Bees.

An experimental dance film concerning grief. Created in collaboration with rose cherami, who provided the soundtrack and glitch art overlay through signal processing.

Live performance of Safe and Sound, a sound installation by Tomo Saito.

A meditation on the experience of being in lockdown during 2020. Hand2Hand is a short experimental dance film that was accepted into The Hague Global Cinema Festival, Portland Dance Film Fest and Third Coast Dance Film Festival.

Excerpts from the Church of Color and Light's live performance of INANNA, UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Analog Light Show Festival 2017.

Away from Home, a music video for North Home, filmed, edited, and co-directed with Jasmine Moser.

Improvised dance and score created as a part of The Soundscaped Coccon.

Filmed and edited by Francis Tatem, this mini-doc on Laura and their art practice is titled Happy Accidents.

Music

spoOokY boOogie

Laura is the founder of a musical project that conjures the spirit of improvisation, known as SPOOOKY BOOOGIE. Featuring a rotating cast of diverse characters; poets, performers, and musicians from around the Bay Area. Laura and their husband, Ashley, facilitate each show with an ear towards the unmarketable resistance of noise music, the sweet lulling waves of ambient soundscapes, and the pulsating pull of danceable dirges. Click below to visit their Bandcamp page.

Ongoing and Past Project Highlights

The Soundscaped Cocoon

Laura's Collaborative Partners

Since moving to San Francisco in 2010, Laura has been involved in a coalition of craftspeople who regularly influence and contribute to the DIY art and music scene. Among these comrades was AVER, a now defunct collective of Bay Area artists who release a yearly zine, set up workshops, and took on commissions in smaller groups.

A Grant from StoreFrontLab

In early 2016, Laura and her fellow AVER member Colin Wang teamed up with local woodworker and designer Joty Dhaliwal to write a grant for an installation at StoreFrontLab in San Francisco's Mission District. There they were given the space to construct "The Soundscaped Cocoon," as a part of their 2015-2016 season.

About the Soundscaped Cocoon Installation

An immense woven wire frame, suspended from the gallery ceiling and covered in shoji paper, the cocoon provided shelter for a month of public programming. For this participatory installation, Laura shot a dance film, hosted two days of live ambient music performances, and organized a series of sound healing sessions with board certified music therapist (MT-BC), sound healer, and energy worker Anneli Virkhaus, all within the confines of the cocoon.

Images of the Soundscaped Cocoon

collaborative photography

Below are a sample of photos from Laura's ongoing double exposure collaborations with Allison Putnam, a Brooklyn-based surrealist photographer. Each artist shot a roll of 35mm film and passed it on to the other so a second round of exposures could be added, creating unforeseen results. Click the thumbnails to enlarge.