A D R I A N   W O O D

I make performances, compositions, podcasts and installations that tell stories from political struggle, focusing on personal experiences of issues like pollution, police violence, gentrification and capitalist extraction. My work amplifies muted sounds and subdued histories with the goal of reconnecting audiences to ourselves, our environments and each other through listening. To listen is to risk being transformed. I aim to create conditions where listening can disrupt and inform, making space for personal transformation that can break harmful patterns and spark collective joy. To me, this kind of transformation is the basis of positive social change and revolution. 

I collaborate with dancers, pastors, storytellers, community organizers, musicians and scientists to generate public creative projects that reach beyond gallery walls. Some of my works deal directly with governmental political power, aiming to disrupt, inform and inspire audiences to act. Other works, like "paradise/maybe windows" and "Voroboros," use impressionistic vignettes to explore how political power shapes my personal experience. My prose work, like The Repair Lab podcast and longform essays, shares a political orientation but uses more traditional forms and conventions. Across my projects, I seek out moments when subjects, including myself, blur with the histories we struggle with, then re-emerge as more of ourselves than we were before.