How To: ING
How To: ING, an experimental YouTube Tutorial by Dana Davenport and Poppy DeltaDawn uses both original and found YouTube tutorial video clips to explore what it means to ING: how to do the thing (or how to be the thing).
ing implies the current action or process of a verb. BEING and BECOMING are mainstays of both artists’ practices, and in this collaboration they’ve come together to question how to become that which they already are. In this short video, a collaged jumble of cultural and societal coding such as feminine voice training for transgender women and flirting as expressed by Korean women collides with a host of practical skills like painting fingernails and weaving a basket. How To: ING encourages viewers to follow along with Davenport and DeltaDawn from start to finish. There likely will be no end-result and failing is expected.
View work featured by Dana Davenport and Poppy DeltaDawn on Instagram, and we will share their collaborative project October 4th-8th, 2021
