Studio / Research

Embodying Speculative Futurity: Dancing with DEATH HAUNTINGS & CHAOS

A POST DIARY REFLECTION

capeforce ii & iii excerpt study for further

development, 2025 work-in-progress

The library waited—still, suspended, split by ladders and flipped chairs. I stepped in, soft chaos in motion, opening the space like a slow tear in fabric. My body became an offering of a disturbance, while being composed. Slowly orchestrating a constellation through and against the space.

Kali Malone hummed under the table. Some arrived already present, others drifted in—uncertain and open. I welcomed them with seven soft warnings, a loose spine of intention: the performance had already begun; all selves were invited; participation and resistance were equally sacred and useful.

I meant to call in ghosts. Regardless, they slipped through anyway. Maybe I tore the opening a bit more without knowing. I asked, off-script, what haunts you? What memories live the in land and in body? The room thickened. Some voices reached toward me—curious, generous, maybe even trying to pull me out of my own deep end. Others stayed still. Which too became choreography.
What followed was a wonderfuck. Motion inside stillness. I made the micro-movements matter—tension as texture, confusion as invitation, absence as erotic material.

GUERRILLA INVOCATION
GUERRILLA BLOOD OATH <
GUERRILLA DANCE

remnants of my performance lecture/performance
in artifact form
for my contribution to PAF newspaper edition

Melodic pauses of a burning world, under the weight of your slick ass shoe,

May 2024 | Solo show at Zach’s Crab Shack, Phila, PA.

This show continues my proposition: how do we black conscious it to erupt? as the blueprints of ordained violence amidst the constellation of global empire is revealed and witnessed, ass completely out. As social media continues to unravel its authority as an eruptive, non-authoritative force of collective consciousness and social, political, and juridical death, I’ve been meditating on the necropolitics of decay and life, tension and release. This is a question I suppose on imagining Blackness and globally oppressed and ethnically cleansed communities who are rendered and unrendered adjacent to this otherness using the act of reconfiguring the image into a new one. An exercise of labor, a reclaiming in the power to do that. Pretty much, I am uncertain and certain at the same time, and in this juxtaposition, holding space for its fragility. What does the slickness of black oil do when the world begins to burn…besides burn brighter and swallows it in its flames and everything else in between? what’s left? what can rise?

black conscious it to erupt///

“Melodic pauses of a burning world, under your slick ass shoe”

1. eat pray love, to the other side of an astro black kinda myth I (remains), 2024

Installation + tapestry

used ziplock bags, prints, coffee grind, dehydrated pee, philly’s lead-filled water, stale bread, chicken and fish grease, worms, glass bottles, duct tape, rope, cinder blocks, kanye west mask, shea butter, raw fish

2. black sun eclipsing into a social typebeat living to find my name, 2024 Film/Video 16:55min

4. black conscious it to erupt I, 2024

600 pg book (physical mock up). FEEL FREE TO PICK UP AND READ/LOOK THROUGH. PLEASE RETURN AFTER USE

The cover of a book showing a person wearing glasses and a headwrap, with the title 'Sensitive Images (at end)'.

Contents of a refrigerator shelf illuminated in purple light, including a wig, a transparent container with food, a magazine, and a book.

Close-up of a decomposing organic material under purple ultraviolet light, showing pinkish flesh-like fragments and dark soil or debris.

An art installation made of crumpled metallic foil, supported by cinder blocks, with a projection of a face in the background.

as the wetlands take grounds: sight of savagebabylon

at GrizzlyGrizzly, PHL April (2023). sculptural installation

SavageSavage, 2023, 8ft x 10 ft, Sculptural Installation (variable in size): High density foam, spray foam, found fabric, rubber, metal, wood, cardboard, duct tape, feathers, fur, old boots, nike sneakers, a saddle, wheels, repurposed dolls, buckets, factory belts, fountain pump, staples, nails, glue