Dominique Duroseau: BEING SEEN / HEARD Episode 1
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BEING SEEN / HEARD:
a series of DRAMATIC EPISODIC PERFORMANCES
by Dominique Duroseau
Episode 1. The THICKENING of THINGS: awkward gestures lead to the death of love. (Black Love). (2021)
Performance w/Michael Paul Britto
Is presence permanent? What is Acceptance?
Erasure? Love? Power?
Does the process of healing need to be so ugly as you attempt to establish presence?
Is my healing journey from anger, frustration, rejection and pain political and does it need to be?
This four-part series of performances slowly and barely unpacks fears, exasperations, erasure and love. The feeling of navigating in the dark is portrayed through the camera’s shifts/movements, the visual choppiness, the hesitations in thought process, and misspoken words. They serve as existential scaffoldings of one’s healing process; messy, awkward and painful.
Being Seen / Heard is presented in conjunction with In Practice: You may go, but this will bring you back, the twenty-fifth iteration of our open call program. The exhibition is curated by 2021 In Practice Curatorial Fellow Katherine Simóne Reynolds and is on view through August 2, 2021.
Credits:
Dominique Duroseau
performance, audio text, editor, videographer
Michael Paul Britto
performance, editor, videographer
Zachary Fabri
videographer