2017 / interactive fiction, multi-media, installation
With a love and passion for interactive media and experimental storytelling, I wanted to respond to the article titled The House the Kids Built: The Gay Black Imprint on American Dance Music by Anthony Thomas. As a part of the exhibition, my piece, “Swallowing my Boredom,” takes the reader through a circuitous array of emotions and desires associated to being a closeted queer Pinay growing up in San Francisco Bay Area and my experiences of going to house parties and dancing with friends.
The letter is fictitious and addressed to “hey you” and meant to serve as a supplement to the installation where visitors were able to play the game and take a copy of the letter with them if they so choose.
Dorothy R. Santos, Ph.D. 