Tyler Rai is a movement artist, writer and researcher currently based in Nipmuc/Pocumtuc Territories (Western Massachusetts) who explores the implications of geologic movement and collaborative assembly through embodied practice. Her works are often site-responsive mediations that question how we embody kinship and relational empathy with the more-than-human-world. Her works have been performed at Judson Memorial Church, ARC Pasadena, SPACE Gallery, SWALE (a barge and floating food-forest), and The School for Contemporary Dance and Thought. Her writings have been published in Culturebot, Contact Quarterly, MA BIBLIOTHÈQUE’s ON CARE anthology, and John Hopkins Medical Magazine for the Humanities, Tendon Magazine. She has performed in the works of K.J.Holmes, Emily Johnson/Catalyst, Bouchra Ouizguen, Athena Kokoronis/Domestic Performance Agency, and Mina Nishimura. She is a founding member of the collaborative curatorial platform, ERRATICS, with artists/researchers Nina Elder and Hannah Perrine Mode, an Artist Fellow with the In Kinship Collective, and is the instigator of the temporal collective, Hungry Mothers (www.hungrymothers.org).
