Artistic Statement

Artistic Statement

As a black, queer, writer, composer, director, curator, and facilitator, Dante Green's artistic endeavors dive deep into the cosmic condition of living and breathing in a world where everybody's just pretending to know what they're doing. Using specificity in simplicity, Dante's interested in meeting you and meeting you where you’re at. Their work is driven by an intense passion for indescribable, inarticulable affection, vulnerable humans and the relationship between the two. Their work is often based on imagery or spatial dynamics that they obsess over and materialize with the people that they're closest to and the people they want to be close to.

"I’ve found that it’s more satisfying to me when my work is filled with the experiences of the people performing the work, rather than solely my voice." While doing this, Dante aims to capture the multiplicity of the human experience. Using sound as an artery for their work, Dante invents new, always magical, sometimes whimsical perspectives that the human ear might find familiar, and always want to linger. Through all of this, they're interested in the precision of dense storytelling and the ever-hovering provocation of trying to get/say/do the things you want. You might feel like a child again, even for a few minutes, and who knows, hopefully, you’ll feel a little bit better about the world and learn something new about yourself and the people around you along the way.