who is glitterboiwonder?
ghost occupying liminal spaces.
Majesty Royale-Jackson (they/them) is a Black Seminole performance maker and installationist working in dance, sound art, and digital media based in Durham, NC. Through investigating their own personal history and partnering with public institutions, Majesty endeavors to make work that is in direct conversation with the communities and identities that they embody. Majesty uses the archive, a container for memory, as a vehicle for traversing universes that are both familiar and too slippery to be known. Through the archive, Black queer technologies arise from the disco, to the church, to the marching band: remixing, improvisation, shape shifting, call & response, reflection/refraction, and illusory forms of being.
Majesty employs sound and digital media to form a bridge between a physical and metaphysical experience. Collaborating with the shapes of digital particles as bodies in space, Majesty transmutes this way of knowing through the ancestral language of the dream: altered speed, distorted pitch, and re/dis/mis-orientation. When space becomes too small for their body, the work stretches into the temporal aberration located in the longing of a love ballad on a broken record player...
what we have is much more than they can see.
in search of new realnesses
flamboyance
language
communion
voice
code
re/de-construction
glitter
sweat
a manifesto
My work says yes to a desirous body. No to shame. Yes too you’re fucked up grammah and the choices made in yo vernaculah. Yes to your sissy walk. No to the violence of code switching and yes to the multiplicity of self. No to distillation and replaceability. Yes to my body. And yes to rest from the labor of holding all of those things. I assert entitlement to a full range of (re)presentation; including but not limited to visibility, invisibility, multi-visibility, super-existence, mundanity, spectacularism, and slippage. When I feel the temptation to become more palatable, I do my dance to remind me of my flavor, my flyness.
soft riot radio
is a science fiction audio series at the end of the world (which world is to be determined). It takes the perspective of a character who becomes a radio dj in a nameless, timeless post-apocalyptic scenario, broadcasting to an audience that may or may not exist. His/their/xyr incoherent memories, wandering desires, and sounds made up of the fragments of what the apocalypse has left behind, create a poetic landscape for what might be on the other side of an ending.
