dria is an interdisciplinary artist, performer, and cultural worker whose practice unfolds through research, improvisation, listening, and embodied experimentation. Working across voice, hybrid analogue–digital composition, movement, poetry, and participatory performance, they create site-responsive environments that explore memory, perception, embodiment, and relation. 

Their current work is drawn to memory: of recollection, of remembering, of what remains, and the ways in which particular sounds, images, gestures, and places can unexpectedly return us to another time. Through tape manipulation, field recordings, movement and gesture, experimentation becomes a practice in asking how memory is shaped and recorded. 

dria’s experience of non-normative embodiment is an active part of their artistic methodology as a queer and chronically ill performer. Their work considers access, interdependence, adaptation, fluctuating capacity, and embodied knowledge as conditions through which making and experiencing art takes place within our personal and collective ideologies. 

Alongside their individual practice, dria works as a producer, curator, and facilitator. Their work includes interdisciplinary performances, sound, participatory events, workshops, and collaborative projects that create spaces for experimentation and exchange. They are a founder and Artistic Director of Leftfield, a grassroots arts collective producing experimental events for performance, sound, and interdisciplinary practices.

In 2018 to 2023, dria apprenticed and taught under HiDe Ebina. They continued their studies with artists such as Guadalupe Martinez, Luca Borsos & Anna Ádám. dria is a scholarship recipient of Experimental Dance & Music’s Contact Improvisation Spring 2026 Cohort & has performed in Vancouver, Galiano Island & Budapest, Hungary.

They explore place-based belonging and the pendulating tensions between autonomy and attachment, migration and return, the individual and the collective. they are particularly drawn to the meeting points of technology, nature, and the body, where intimacy and distance fold into one another.

for dria, art-making is a practice of witnessing, relational inquiry, and ongoing return. they approach their work not as a search for resolution, but as a way of dwelling within uncertainty, allowing meaning to surface through process, participation, and shared attention.