DO YOU SEE IT TOO? (2026)

How does immersive minoritarian performance expose colonial, normative, and hegemonic ways of being in the world? How might a minoritarian subject utilize “exposure” as a technique towards dismantling normative ways of being, and at the same time, generate utopian affects? The intersection of these two guiding questions animates the three experiments in my autoethnographic performance Do You See It Too? : A Triptych. This work is largely indebted to José Esteban Muñoz’s scholarship archiving and enlivening minoritarian performance and his contemplations on sensing B/brown; Vivian Huang’s work on Inscrutability as a form of minoritarian refusal; and 600-Highwaymen’s triptych, “A Thousand Ways.” A moment of reflection on how I’m thinking about “minoritarian”: in dialogue with José Esteban Muñoz work, Tavia Nyong’o succinctly defines minoritarian as: “Different than a demographic minority (which the non-white peoples of the global majority are not), the minoritarian explores the political outside of the representation of formal or aspirational civil subjects.”1 It is to feel a Munozian “burden of liveness,” and to refuse it.

The past collides onto the present in the first experiment as I expose participants to hold my direct gaze while they listen to me recall a memory of the first time I felt “othered.” Inspired by 600 Highwaymen’s “A Thousand Ways,” my second experiment asks audience members to self-identify as minoritarian or majoritarian. We play a game that requires picking up a series of cards and answering different questions based on how they self-identify. Each question determines the question that follows — making for a unique experience for each participant and forming a distinct archive at the end. Finally, we return to the same format as my first experiment – except in this iteration, I interact with my interlocutors to query what it means to feel a Muñozian “sense of Brown” with my audience.

Link to video of Do You See it Too? : A Triptych, 2026 (20:53): https://youtu.be/xUebV4-Cm08