In 2021 an animal was found in Brazil who had the combined DNA of a pampas fox and a domestic dog.
The animal died in captivity, no other creature with the same DNA has (to our knowledge) been found by humans.
In this piece I use sound, image, live performance and touch to delve into a sensory imagining of this story. Exploring the liminality of existence beyond prescribed categorisation, and radical empathy.
The Fox Dog Show
Trailer from Lowry's Scratch X Climate Hope 23.11.2025 filmed by Joshua Rasco
This work is in the early stages of development.
It is a performance about cultivating kinship with the natural world through embodiment and sensory experience. The piece invites audiences to feel their way into another creature’s perspective - shifting perception through sound, image and touch.
The Fox Dog Show responds to an urgent cultural and ecological moment in which many people feel profoundly disconnected - from the natural world, from each other, and from their own embodied experience.
At a time when climate narratives are often dominated by data, catastrophe, or abstraction, this piece offers a different entry point: one grounded in sensation, empathy and lived experience. By inviting audiences to encounter the world through another creature’s sensory perspective, the work cultivates forms of attention and care that are difficult to reach through language or information alone.
If you'd like to know more about the process of creating this piece you can read more in my field notes
Photo credits Lydia Hooke
To create this show I am collaborating with Hannah Mook (Paper People, Bears, Me and My Whale), Michelle Madsen and Arisha Jane Marsh
And have been supported by audio artists and technicians We Are Stems
and working with creative organizations: Lowry, Unity Theatre Liverpool, Cottonshed Inclusive theatre Company, Burnley College