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Dreams Intercepted
Dreams Intercepted (2023) is a series of 23 drawings that consider interactions between the past and present of queer Greenwich Village in real life and in the archives. Through forming imaginary scenes that combine personal narrative and historical research, Dove considers her own relationship to the trans and queer lineages of the gentrified neighborhood she grew up in as a white, trans, NYU-faculty child.
Considering her identity as both a product of queer and trans life and activism in Greenwich Village as well as a marker of that exact life being erased from the neighborhood, the drawings in Dreams Intercepted display these tensions and interrupt the notion that present-day Greenwich Village is harmonious with its queer past.
Dove’s Live Set
For this performance, Dove will be joined one morning by a small group of friends and community to have coffee and listen to her sing. Carly and Dove are working together to figure out how to best put this together. The event will last approximately 45 minutes.
“My voice memos are treasure troves I want to send you.” Raw and packed with immediacy, the music of Dove Bardin is as urgent as it is spare. With just an acoustic guitar and her voice, Dove vividly narrates her present as a college-age, trans New Yorker. Jokes and speculations as if told between friends are interspersed with poetic lines and references of downtown, coming together to tell a story about the now, about this age, and about New York. Her debut EP, DOVE, comes out at the end of April.
Dove Bardin is a 22-year-old interdisciplinary artist born and raised in New York City. In her fine art practice, she is interested in memory, history, place, gentrification, complicity, trans lineages, and dynamics of race and class in lower Manhattan. Much of her fine art work relies on her research practice to contextualize our current experience of downtown New York City. This kind of confessional narration comes up in her music as well, where she tells more personal stories of her life in New York.
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