Griot.

Griot is an interactive African fable presented as part of Persona: A Portal to the Selves Within, my solo exhibition at Understudy in Denver in 2022.

Combining playback theater, live music, and interactive audience storytelling, the performance invited people to share true stories from their own lives. These stories advanced the fable, shaping its unfolding narrative.

Each audience member received a mythical epithet: a name through which they entered the world of the fable. Personal experience became part of a shared mythology, with the audience helping to tell the story from within it.