Majesty Royale-Jackson

Majesty Royale-Jackson (they/them) is a Black Seminole performance maker and installationist working in dance, sound art, and digital media based in Durham, NC. Through investigating their own personal history and partnering with public institutions, Majesty endeavors to make work that is in direct conversation with the communities and identities that they embody. Majesty uses the archive, a container for memory, as a vehicle for traversing universes that are both familiar and too slippery to be known. Through the archive, Black queer technologies arise from the disco, the church, and the marching band: remixing, improvisation, shape shifting, call & response, reflection/refraction, and illusory forms of being.

As Majesty’s practice continues to expand disciplinarily toward sound and digital media, they collaborate with the shapes of digital particles as bodies in space, forming a bridge between a physical and metaphysical existence. Majesty transmutes these knowings through the ancestral language of the dream: altered speed, distorted pitch, and dis-orientation. When space becomes too small for their body, the work stretches into the temporal aberration located in the longing of a love ballad on a broken record player.