who is glitterboiwonder?
ghost occupying liminal spaces.
Majesty Royale-Jackson (they/them) is a Black Seminole performance maker and installationist working in dance, sound art, and digital media based in Durham, NC. Through investigating their own personal history and partnering with public institutions, Majesty endeavors to make work that is in direct conversation with the communities and identities that they embody. Majesty uses the archive, a container for memory, as a vehicle for traversing universes that are both familiar and too slippery to be known. Through the archive, Black queer technologies arise from the disco, the church, and the marching band: remixing, improvisation, shape shifting, call & response, reflection/refraction, and illusory forms of being.
As Majesty’s practice continues to expand disciplinarily toward sound and digital media, they collaborate with the shapes of digital particles as bodies in space, forming a bridge between a physical and metaphysical existence. Majesty transmutes these knowings through the ancestral language of the dream: altered speed, distorted pitch, and dis-orientation. When space becomes too small for their body, the work stretches into the temporal aberration located in the longing of a love ballad on a broken record player.
in search of new realnesses
flamboyance
language
community
voice
codes
re/de-construction
glitter
sweat
a manifesto
My work says yes to a desirous body. No to shame. Yes too you’re fucked up grammah and the choices made in yo vernaculah. Yes to your sissy walk. No to the violence of code switching and yes to the multiplicity of self. No to distillation and replaceability. Yes to my body. And yes to rest from the labor of holding all of those things. I assert entitlement to a full range of (re)presentation; including but not limited to visibility, invisibility, multi-visibility, super-existence, mundanity, spectacularism, and slippage. When I feel the temptation to become more palatable, I do my dance to remind me of my flavor, my flyness.
