Dimensional Beings 23/24
Dimensional beings was an LGBTQ+ Month festival initiative by the Arts and Creative Industries School at the University of East London to showcase the work of Queer students and staff.
“LOG ON”
Twenty-Twenty-Three
In my first year of Dimensional Beings, I adapted and simplified my film-based performance installation “Log On”.
LOG ON
Multimedia Film & Performance Installation
Log On is a multimedia performance and film installation exploring Black masculinity, queer expression and the politics of looking.
Drawing on grime culture, queer cinema, surveillance imagery and the artist's own lived experience, the work examines how the Black male body is seen, performed and interpreted. Through projected film, live performance, silhouette, movement and sound, familiar codes of masculinity are disrupted and reimagined.
The work explores the tension between visibility and concealment, masculinity and femininity, intimacy and surveillance. Influenced by ideas of the male gaze, othering and disidentification, Log On asks the audience to consider not only what they are looking at, but how they are looking.
2021
Film, projection, live performance, sound, installation
Click here to read the Practice Portfolio of “Log on”
“Man(i)festing”
Twenty-Twenty-Four
Man(i)festing
Multimedia Film & Performance Installation
Man(i)festing is a new multimedia film and performance installation by LXVI exploring the intersection of Black masculinity, queer identity and self-expression.
Drawing on LXVI’s artistic practice and montage techniques, the work brings together original film, visual art, performance and an original soundtrack to examine how Black masculinity is constructed, performed and experienced within contemporary urban life.
Through layered imagery, movement, sound and fragmented visual narratives, Man(i)festing explores the tensions between masculinity and vulnerability, visibility and concealment, identity and perception. The work invites audiences into an immersive exploration of Black urban life, challenging familiar representations and creating space for more complex expressions of Black queer identity.
2021
Film, visual art, performance, original soundtrack, installation
