WHAT I ACTUALLY DO
I am an interdisciplinary artist and writer, and my work centers on the inner voice—how we hear it, how we trust it, and how it shapes what we create. I design immersive, participatory experiences that help people access clarity, creativity, and embodied insight.
I’m known for my Inner Voice Activation process, my Lens-Based Writing methodology, and Abre Tu Boca—my multilingual writing framework that blends sensory perception with expression. My offerings include guided writing rituals, group perception labs, and spontaneous site-responsive activations built from what’s alive in the room, helping participants move from sensation to language, from noticing to meaning.
My work brings a unique combination of artistic intuition and facilitation skill—I know how to drop in, read the environment, and create transformative experiences that support both individual depth and group cohesion. People often describe my presence and offerings as both grounding and creatively activating, leaving them feeling more turned on, more alive.
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WHERE I FIT IN
Because of the way I work, my presence and offerings are highly complementary to pre-existing settings and to working alongside other artists, facilitators, and somatic practitioners. When I come into a space, I deepen what’s already happening, support integration, and open a more interdisciplinary, synergistic field.
I don’t come in with a rigid curriculum. I come in with an inquiry, with my frameworks, and with the ability to sense what wants to emerge—and then help bring it into form.
Here are the environments where I naturally fit:
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Environments already focused on the body or on somatic practice.
These include:
Yoga studios or yoga centers
Meditation centers
Retreats
Movement workshops
Breathwork spaces
Somatic or trauma-informed settings
Healing environments, including rehab and integrative care
Spaces where people are coming into their bodies or out of familiar routines
What I do here is help bridge the embodied experience back into conceptual language — so people can carry the transformation into daily life.
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Environments that are highly intellectual or conceptual.
These include:
Universities
Libraries
Museums
Galleries
Lecture halls
Cultural centers
Think tanks and thought labs
These spaces are often dominated by the concepts What I bring is the sense-based languages, the perceptual tools, the frameworks for inquiry — so the mind can stay present while the body re-enters the conversation.
This is where inner knowing and conceptual understanding meet. And this is where a lot of transformation can happen because both systems — mind and body — start working together again.
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Spaces where multiple forms meet.
These include:
Interdisciplinary art spaces
Creative labs
Festivals
Residencies
Community-based projects
Cultural hubs or site-specific gatherings
Collaborations with dancers, musicians, visual artists, somatic practitioners
Here my work acts as a connective thread — a way of deepening what’s already happening and helping all the different languages in the room speak to one another. This is where synergy and new forms emerge.
WAYS OF WORKING WITH ME
Site-Responsive Creation
I come in with an inquiry, with my frameworks, and with my ability to sense what wants to emerge in the room, in the land, in the community, or in the moment. We start from zero. We begin with what’s alive. I create environments — physical or conceptual — that help people tune into perception, explore the inquiry, and translate their findings into language and form.
This can look like:
Community-responsive frameworks
Day-long explorations
Live-built immersive experiences
Conceptual or perceptual activations
Writing-and-sense-based rituals
Situational work based on land, weather, space, or context
This work is built in real time, from presence.
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Traveling Conceptual Works
These are existing bodies of work that evolve as they move to new locations. Each work holds its own inquiry and offers a distinct way of tuning perception.
Colors of Solitude
An inquiry into the spectrum of aloneness beyond solitude and loneliness. This work opens new tonalities of the alone state through color, objects, sense languages, and perceptual integration.
Origin: Evolving body of work created through ongoing inquiry and site-based experimentation.
Format: individual immersion | 1 hour
Parts Divided
A participatory performance that guides people into the many voices within — those inherited, imagined, silenced, or unknown. Through writing, somatic activation, and interpretive movement, participants track impulses and discern the voice that is truly their own. Origin: First created as a site-responsive work with the NGO Proyector Florecer in Medellín, Colombia; continues to shift with each location.
Format: group (8–20) | 2 hours
Messages from the Interior
An immersive writing installation that invites participants to descend into the interior — both their own and the interior of place. Through audio, visual cues, somatic exploration, and writing, the work blurs inner and outer landscapes and opens a deeper field of listening. Origin: First created as a site-responsive work in dialogue with the landscapes of Baja California Sur, installed at Galeria Migrante; continues to adapt to new environments and languages.
Format: individual immersion | 1 hour
The Box
A contained, one-hour immersive ritual that places participants inside a conceptual object — a “mental construct” made physical. Through movement, silence, and poetic prompts, perception reorients, revealing new meaning and inner clarity. Designed to shift with each location while maintaining its essential ritual form. Origin: Developed as a mobile conceptual object; evolves through its encounters with different spaces and communities. This work travels lightly and installs easily, translating across art spaces, festivals, healing environments, therapeutic settings, and private locations.
Format: individual immersion | 1 hour
Inner Voice Activation (Writing Circle)
For any environment, I can also offer a stand-alone writing experience rooted in the Abre Tu Boca methodology — a direct activation of the inner voice through the page. Each session begins with a prompt that drops you into your story, revealing characters, scenes, and voices that live beneath the surface. The writing arrives; you simply catch it with the page. The circle includes guided listening and feedback practices developed over nearly four years of my social-practice work in Mexico, deeping communication practices for participants.
Format: group (3–10) or private | 1.5–2 hours
These works are all living systems that grow and shift based on what each location or community reveals. Each contains audio, text, and/or visual components that can be adapted or recorded in local languages with local vocal artists.
Extended Bio
Amanda Aileen Fisher is an interdisciplinary artist and writer working internationally at the intersection of language, perception, embodiment, and participatory practice. Her work investigates how conceptual and sensory languages shape consciousness, encode inherited narratives, and open deeper ways of knowing. She creates perception-driven, immersive experiences that bring people into the space between words—into sensation, relational awareness, and the wider inner territories where meaning begins.
Her practice integrates writing, voice, movement, somatic inquiry, and site-responsive design. Over the past four years, she has developed participatory installations, traveling conceptual works, interdisciplinary collaborations, and layered group experiences that combine writing, sound, and embodied perception—supporting both individual transformation and collective belonging.
In 2022, Amanda developed Parts Divided during an independent residency with Proyecto Florecer in Medellín, Colombia. Rooted in listening to both local and refugee women and observing the emotional landscape of the city, the piece explored internal narratives, impulses, and somatic truth. She expanded the work in collaboration with a local movement artist, creating a participatory performance in which writing and dance translated perception in real time.
In 2024, she served as the resident interdisciplinary artist for a private retreat in the Dominican Republic, where she offered spontaneous, site-specific interventions that integrated breathwork, movement, somatic practice, and performance. She designed inquiries and environments that helped participants translate deep embodied states into conceptual language, supporting meaningful integration.
In 2025, Amanda entered a new chapter of touring her participatory and perception-based work through Europe. She completed a six-day Abre Tu Boca residency in Vienna, offering a different activation each day—ranging from playful social encounters to intimate, place-based writing experiences, culminating in an open stage and the debut new methodologies such as Poetic Portraits. She later collaborated with a multilingual community in Leipzig, Germany, leading the first four-language Abre Tu Boca writing circle. Throughout her travels, she pitched and refined the conceptual foundations of her immersive works, expanding their global reach and future trajectory—including The Box, a portable, perception-shifting writing ritual experienced inside a minimalist conceptual structure.
Amanda was invited by the Modern Elder Academy (MEA) to bring her writing methodology into their 2025 Summer Immersion Program. Two certified Abre Tu Boca facilitators guided participants throughout the season, and Amanda returned at summer’s end to teach, support the closing, and help anchor the work inside MEA’s community.
Her participatory writing project, Abre Tu Boca, based in Todos Santos, Mexico, has grown into a multilingual, cross-cultural movement exploring expression, perception, community, and inner truth. Over nearly four years, the project has expanded into a publishing ecosystem, multilingual writing circles, facilitator training, public interventions, and concept-driven writing journeys. In 2025 she launched Abre Tu Boca Press, a platform for multilingual voices and inner-voice-based creative practice.
Before her current focus, Amanda founded EDIA Inc., a narrative map publishing company that produced nationally recognized maps exploring overlooked foodways, geographies, and cultural memory. EDIA’s work informed her long-standing interest in collective voice, place-based narrative, and the subtle structures shaping how people make sense of their world.
She has founded and co-founded participatory arts initiatives in Los Angeles, North Carolina, and Mexico, led community writing programs across the Americas, and collaborated with performers, movement artists, somatic practitioners, and interdisciplinary creators. She is currently writing a book on her Lens-Based Writing methodology and continues to travel internationally with her immersive works and site-responsive offerings.