Performance - Derrick Woods-Morrow

I Believe in the Future of ‘Small Countries'

For their engagement with Queer City Cinema: International Film and Performance Arts Projects, Derrick Woods-Morrow presents I Believe in the Future of ‘Small Countries’. Within the context of speculative worldbuilding the artist reconfigures the Gallery space as errogenous zone, inside and outside of time and space, myth and reality; a belly. Truncated by film elements, language exercises, and sound activations, the performance queries the coastline as place to commune with Queer spirits lost at sea. Seeing the coastline as a site of refusal, promiscuous behavior and subversion, the artist guides the audience to extend themselves beyond orgasm and instead release their pleasure into his body as a speculative excavation of collective labor. With Caribbean scholars Edouard Glissant, Sylvia Wynter and Kamau Braithwaite in mind, Derrick’s new work pushes at the edges of “How sensation & desire” operate asynchronistically.

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