BEING SEEN / HEARD:
a series of DRAMATIC EPISODIC PERFORMANCES
by Dominique Duroseau

Episode 3. Handle w/Care: a melodic rant of Black Emotional Collagen Doses (2021)

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