Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley

"She uses technology to imagine our lives in an environment that is centered around black bodies."

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Alice Scope

ABOUT

Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley works predominantly in animation, sound, performance and video games to communicate the experiences of being a Black Trans person. Her practice focuses on intertwining lived experience with fiction to imaginatively retell Trans stories and build an ongoing archive of erased Trans lives for the past, present and future. The expansive thematics of Brathwaite-Shirley’s practice include digital real-estate, archiving and the exclusion and subjugation of Black and Brown Trans bodies in digital space. Technology is at the forefront of her practice, and the residency will provide time to further study the history of gaming, its role as an art form and educational tool, and the innovative use of VR space as a site for debate and critical discussion.

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