muse dodd

20 de fevereiro a 13 de março de 2022

Muse Dodd (Ile/Dile) é ume artiste anti-disciplinar, curadore e DJ nascide em Severn, Maryland, e que vive em Nova Orleans, Estados Unidos. Seu trabalho se concentra nas perguntas: Como você se lembra e o que você escolhe esquecer? Através do ato de lembrar, Muse usa seu corpo para mapear a experiência vivida pelos africanos na América. Dodd canaliza o trauma para se conectar, processar e alquimizar a dor; tanto pessoal quanto coletiva através do movimento, ritual e sonho coletivo.

Muse é bacharel em Produção Cinematográfica pela Howard University e estudou na Academia de Cinema de Praga. Muse é Source Studio Fellow e recebeu a bolsa Corrina Mehiel. Muse foi artist fellow em 2019-2020 do Leslie Lohman Museum e em 2019 foi DCAC Curatorial Fellow. Dodd foi também artista residente na Flux Factory, e em 2018 foi artista residente no Museu ARoS, na Dinamarca. O trabalho audiovisual de Muse foi comissionado para performances no The Shed, Mabou Mines Theatre e Dixon Place. Muse também exibiu trabalhos no Lincoln Center, The BWI Marshall Airport, Prince George’s African American Museum and Cultural Center, The DC Arts Center e The Flux Factory. Através de seu trabalho, Muse espera criar espaço para que os corpos negros sejam livres, mesmo que apenas por um quadro.

February 20 to March 13, 2022

Muse Dodd (They/Them) is an Anti-disciplinary Artist, Curator and DJ from Severn, MD based in New Orleans. 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 body to map the lived experience of Africans in America. Muse channels trauma to connect with, process and alchemize pain; both personal and collective through movement, ritual and collective dreaming.

Muse holds a BA in Film Production from Howard University and studied at the Film Academy in Prague. Muse is a Source Studio Fellow and recipient of the Corrina Mehiel Grant. Muse is a 2019-2020 Leslie Lohman Museum Artist Fellow and was the 2019 DCAC Curatorial Fellow. A former Artist-in-Residence at the Flux Factory, they were also a 2018 Artist-in-Residence at the ARoS Museum in Denmark. Muse video work has been commissioned for performances at The Shed, Mabou Mines Theater, and Dixon Place. Muse has also screened and exhibited work at Lincoln Center, The BWI Marshall Airport, Prince George’s African American Museum and Cultural Center, The DC Arts Center, and The Flux Factory. Through their work, Muse hopes to create space for Black bodies to be free, if only for a frame.

Note app poem 3/11/22

Today I took shrooms and looked for the light

I watched the night stars twinkle in the distance while listening to Rod Lee and Backyard band

I thought of home

How I could make it a better place

of missing a place I don’t have roots in anymore

of being rootless

I created this track using site specific audio while at my residency at Mirante Xique Xique in Bahia, Brazil. I’ve been continually thinking about memory and how we can interact with the spirits of the past, so I visited an old mining site turned museum led by the great grandson of a former miner. I thought of how the enslaved would have wanted to be remembered and wanted to create a space for revenge, for liberation through sound. There is also this unexplained phenomena in Igatu, with this aurora borealis event that appears in the mountains for those lucky enough to witness, I didn’t get the opportunity to see, I waited about an hour for the lights but nothing happened. But I recorded a conversation with someone who experienced it and added it to the track. I like to think that the spirits of the garimpeiros are involved in some way or maybe it’s all a hoax for us visitors and estrangeiros, either way I’m here for it.