S*an D. Henry-Smith /Publishing Performance/
With astringency principle of the looking drum, S*an D. Henry-Smith presents a new sonic performance in which they “play” the camera as a percussive instrument, improvising a rhythm of shutter releases while simultaneously making and unmaking photographs.This act serves to disrupt the “imposed language” of both the instrument and the medium.
S*an D. Henry-Smith is an artist working primarily in poetry and photography, and, by extension, vocal and sonic performance and publishing. They are the author of Body Text (2016), Flotsam Suite: a strange and precarious life, or how we chronicled the little disasters & I won’t leave the dance floor til it’s out of my system (2019), Wild Peach (2020), the co-author (alongside Imani Elizabeth Jackson, with whom they collaborate as mouthfeel) of Consider the Tongue (2019), co-producer of twill split (2024) with Tavish Timothy, with whom they play as twill, and the director of Lunar New Year (2021).