Protodispatch Series, Protocinema. February 2023.
credits: video and poem byJordan Deal
Introduction by Laura Raicovich
Seas, which are then lavished and graced by the efforts of delusion, film and poem 2023
WE HAVE COLONIZED POTENTIALITY - Jordan Deal was invited to contribute to the digital publication PROTODISPATCH, an international publication founded under PROTOCINEMA based in Turkey and New York City. Their contribution was a pairing of their film Seas, which are then lavished and graced by the efforts of delusion, 2021 and their poem And then the Phantom spoke back (from the currents of PIT!).
“Jordan Deal’s dispatch is a montage of film and poetry attending to what it means to put our bodies on the streets and to convene in private. While the poem reflects on histories and presents of White-dominated society and the potentials for mutual liberation, the film assembles found and personal videos of celebratory and resistance gatherings that were responses to the 2020 US elections, asking pointed questions about who gathers, who watches, who is allowed to celebrate, whose histories are told, and whose are censored.” - introduction written by Laura Raicovich.