Dani Carter is a Tkaronto-born, Tiohtià:ke-based writer and performance artist.
Project Description: TIPS is an interdisciplinary exploration of Blackness, desirability, the internet, and the hidden erotic underbelly of labour. It follows the myth of the Black body into the noise of cyberspace.
The work is an aggregation of data—an absurd, burlesque, corrosive archive—collected from imageboards, message boards, Reddit communities, TikTok live streams, and the artist’s lived experience. How does the internet and its content, pornographic and non-pornographic, affect the shape of fetishization? Can a text that dehumanizes be radicalized by the dehumanized? As Gayatri Spivak writes, can the subaltern speak? These are questions that TIPS is interested in asking—if not answering, given their vastness—in the context of writing, performance, and their intersection.
Photo credit: Dani Carter