Over the past year Marie has developed her work and research around the sensuality of voice and lyricality of speech, in which the mouth becomes material: pitched as an erotogenic and sculptural space. She began to work collaboratively with fellow associate Sophie Mallett on a number of projects, kicking off with Live ASMR at OSE’s Open Studios in March 2015. A performance which has been repeated on Resonance FM, and as a cycle of broadcast for Radia, the work draws on the videos of the online community of ASMR artists, who combine phonetic and textural sounds with suggestions of intimacy to trigger the pleasurable tingling in the scalp typical of AMSR. The pair have begun working together on further sound works, which feature recorded scores and the voice.

Along with associates John Lawrence and Paul Maheke, Marie organised the public discussion Beyond Beyonce: use it like a bumper. The event featured a performance by carnival dance troupe Tropical Isles, who are also based in the Rose Lipman building, and aimed to question in what ways Black females today use Hip-Hop as a way to reclaim power and foster new subjectivities. Marie also hosted the This is my Tribe event Self Love as a Revolutionary Act.