Wavesss is a reclamation of Black Queer Trans identity through self-care ritual. Muse uses their body to map the lived experience of Africans in America channeling trauma to connect with, process and alchemize pain; both personal and collective through sound, video and poetry.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Muse Dodd is Multidisciplinary Artist, Curator and DJ working in both MD and NY. Their work centers on the questions, How do you remember and what do you choose to forget? Through the act of remembering, Muse uses their own body to map the lived experience of Africans in America reliving and channeling trauma to connect with, process and alchemize pain both personal and collective through movement, ritual and conversation. Muse is a Leslie-Lohman Museum Artist fellow, and was the 2019 DCAC Curatorial Apprentice. Muse's most recent grants include the Corrina Mehiel Fellowship and the Artist Relief Grant from Creative Capital.
Photo by Kathryn Butler
Works in progress sharing at CPR (Center for Performance Research).
"Drexciya: mixed media experience & mythical resistance story of an underwater country populated by African women who jumped to their liberation and adapted to breathe underwater during the Trans-Atlantic slave trade. It explores Black and indigenous communities relationship to water in the height of an international water crisis."
Created by Aya Lane Devised with: Ziiomi Law, Nana Chinara, Monique Muse Dodd
Genesis
A performance piece utilizing the body, sound and spoken word to imagine a new multiverse in the rubbles of the old. Drawing from Audre Lorde's Uses of the Erotic, Genesis with sensual power reckons with the divine feminine transforming all that it touches.
Co-conspirators: Monique Muse Dodd, Aya Lane and Nana Chinara
Photo courtesy of Kalyn Jacobs