On Dragon Hunt and Mutual Transformability after Samuel R. Delany

Taking Samuel Delany’s SciFi novel Stars In My Pocket Like Grains of Sand as a point of departure, in a joint effort with other artists we’ve labored a work which is at once a dance, fantasy, and a queer road film. Its protagonists, animated by the weirdening landscape of the Dalmatian Hinterland and enraptured by the sound of the conch shell, partake in the melding tradition of Dragon Hunting. An exploration in somatics, media translation, mimicry, and the sensuous, Dragon Hunt is a result of mutual transformability exercised between fellow artist friends and different machine learning algorithms.