Hi my name is Nia, and I like to play: with light, colours, sounds, the body, the senses, roles, rules, realities. I spent over a decade researching on the topic of play. Amongst my most powerful teachers were the unquestioned masters of play: children. Over the years, my initially scientifically-oriented interest transformed (back) into an intimate love-relationship with play. The creations birthed from that love are of various shapes: performances, poems, photographs, paintings... I came to understand that my job as an artist, mainly, is to be a vessel. It became a daily practice for me to make my body and all of my being a welcoming place for artistic expression. I take pleasure in cultivating an attitude of proactive-not-knowing towards life that allows mystery to work upon me and leaves space for magic and miracles to happen naturally. My work unfolds at the intersection of immersion, intervention, activism, and research.