Gabriel Christian | Doom Body

Gabriel Christian | Doom Body
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@doom_body | Gabriel Christian on FB

Under the title “doom body,” my project seeks to be a continuation of a process started under COVID-19 quarantine, that intervenes with social media space to offer free, almost daily duets to a virtual audience. I’m curious about how to “hack” the incessant feed of dread, charisma, celebrity, and memes that flood our internet consumption, with an aim to present experimental work within live streams. Though I am a performance artist who prefers sharing my work in the flesh, this research will challenge me and all witnesses to release an attachment to intimate or stage space and attempt adapting to “real-time” on our devices. The duets for the fifth round, which occurred May 8th through May 20th, were with eleven folks exclusively from the African/African-American Diaspora, including family and Onye Ozi participants. We will digest the language around this pandemic and its disproportionate effect on African-American communities in the States through movement offered live on my Instagram profile @doom_body.

About Gabriel Christian

Gabriel Christian (they/them) is an American artist bred in New York City (Wappinger Lenape land) & baking in Oakland (Chochenyo Ohlone land). For more than ten years, their work has metabolized the vernaculars within BlaQ diaspora—futurity, afrovivalism, faggotry—through high dramatics, structured improvisation, poetics & collaborative practices. Their mentors/collaborators include Sherwood Chen, Jose E. Abad, Rashad Pridgen, Anne Bluethenthal, Jess Curtis, Robert Woodruff, and Joe Goode