I create work informed by social interactions, language, and labor. My creative practice is a culmination of being born to immigrant Filipino parents who raised me in San Francisco’s (California) Mission District. I create interactive, text and sound-based works that process complex familial and cultural histories from intersectional, intergenerational, and cross-cultural dialogues.
My primary modes of creation include durational (experimental) writing, creative interactive nonfiction, field recordings combined with recitations, and the imposition of constraints. Audio formats are strategies I employ to experience art through our auditory sense, as the same sound cannot be recreated or reproduced with identical fidelity and conditions. This deeply fascinates me and leads me to explore the repetition of sound and speech, testing my endurance.
Collaborations and sustained exchanges are integral to my artistic practice. My work involves collaborating with long-time friends and strangers, as well as the intentional use of open-source software.
Dorothy R. Santos, Ph.D. 