ELIZABETH YOCHIM
Artist and ritual practitioner exploring memory, myth, and the living bodyto develop site-specific works rooted in embodied practices and art history.
COLLABORATIONS
Collaboration, for me, is a listening practice—
a way of entering the space between bodies, images, voices, and histories, and allowing something neither of us could make alone to come quietly into form.
My practice is fundamentally relational. I understand collaboration not as a supporting structure to the work, but as the work itself—a dynamic field of exchange in which bodies, voices, images, histories, and environments co-compose meaning.
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Across performance, ritual, image-making, and site-responsive research, I collaborate with internationally recognized photographers, musicians, singers, poets, writers, scholars, and cultural practitioners to create interdisciplinary works that engage memory, grief, transformation, and collective presence. These collaborations unfold across public space, sacred landscapes, galleries, memorial sites, and pedagogical contexts, often dissolving the boundary between performer and witness, artist and community.
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Collaboration is not an accessory to my work; it is its primary methodology. I approach collaboration as a living field—one shaped by attentiveness, trust, and shared responsibility. Each project begins with listening: to the body, to place, to history, and to the distinct intelligence each collaborator brings.
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I value interdisciplinary exchange as a form of research. Photographers, musicians, writers, scholars, and performers are not invited to illustrate a predetermined vision, but to co-author meaning through dialogue, improvisation, and embodied inquiry. Authorship is distributed; leadership is responsive.
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My collaborative practice is grounded in care—for process, for context, and for the emotional and cultural stakes of the work. I am particularly drawn to collaborations that engage memory, grief, ritual, and transformation, where art functions not only as expression, but as a communal act of witnessing.
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I believe collaboration asks us to be both precise and porous: rigorous in our craft, generous in our exchange, and willing to be changed by what unfolds. When collaboration is held with integrity, it becomes more than partnership—it becomes a shared rite of making, remembrance, and becoming.
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Working with Elizabeth is a deeply collaborative and thoughtful process rooted in listening, clarity, and mutual respect. She brings a rare combination of embodied intelligence, conceptual rigor, and emotional attunement—offering both strong creative vision and genuine openness to co-authorship. Elizabeth is attentive to process as much as outcome, creating spaces where collaborators feel supported, challenged, and seen. She values clear communication, ethical collaboration, and work that holds cultural, emotional, and aesthetic integrity. Above all, she approaches collaboration as a shared inquiry—one that invites rigor, imagination, and care in equal measure. - Don Norman, poet and photographer of "Mythology Series"
