Research

In 2009 I completed a PhD at the Department of Sociology of the University of Essex exploring the relationship between cultural politics, representation, aesthetics and subjectivity by looking at the work of the Chicano performance artist Guillermo Gómez-Peña and his group La Pocha Nostra. Gómez-Peña’s interpretation of the Chicano notion of the border-crosser and La Pocha Nostra’s creative way of engaging with alternative transnational networks have greatly influenced my practice.

As part of my PhD I explored different approaches to human subjectivity and issues of otherness, including psychoanalysis, engaging with it theoretically and also practically through a four year full analysis at the London Institute of Psychoanalysis. Following that experience and research I trained as a PC therapist and I am currenlty training as a Lacanian psychoanalyst at the School of the Freudian Letter. I also became a few years ago a Zen Practioner and I am exploring how to incorporate the intensive  spiritual learning I am going through.