I create work informed by social interactions, language, and labor. My creative practice is a culmination of having been born to immigrant Filipino parents who raised me in San Francisco’s (California) Mission district. The intersectional, intergenerational, and cross-cultural dialogue results in creating interactive, text and sound-based works that function as forms of processing complex familial and cultural histories.
My primary modes of making include durational (experimental) writing, devising game mechanics, field recordings combined with recitations, and imposition of constraints. Audio formats are strategies I incorporate as a way to experience art through our auditory sense because the same sound cannot be recreated or reproduced with identical fidelity and conditions, which deeply fascinates and leads me to explore the repetition of sound and speech to test my endurance.
Collaborations and sustained practices of knowledge exchange are imperative parts of my artistic practice. My work involves the participation of long-time collaborators or strangers along with an intentional use of open source software(s).
Dorothy R. Santos, Ph.D. 