Biography

I was born in Yokohama in 1965. When I was just over a year old my parents returned to England, where I lived until taking a job teaching dance in Bodø in north Norway in 1985. In 1986 I moved to Oslo, and have been based here ever since. I have a formal education as a dancer and choreographer. I graduated from London College of Dance and Drama with a Diploma in dance and pedadgogics in 1985, and later studied at the National College of Ballet and Dance in Oslo, graduating in 1994 with a Diploma in choreography. In 1996 I founded the Oslo-based live art group Motherboard (www.liveart.org) with my colleague Per Platou. The majority of our work has taken the form of installations and performative live art happenings that explore the materiality and resistance of the net as a mediating instance. From 2004-06 I was employed as a researcher at the Norwegian Theatre Academy where I participated in the National Programme for Research Fellowships in the Arts. I completed my project Mind, the Gap. Synaesthesia and contemporary live art practice in January 2007. I am currently working as a freelancer, artist/choreographer and co-director of Motherboard.