Open Call: Kyle Dacuyan

The artist Kyle Dacuyan, a Filipino performer with short dark hair, stands before a microphone bathed in a turquoise light. He trains his gaze intently at us with his mouth drawn tightly closed. He holds his hands up to his chest as if to gesture toward himself. On the wall behind him, an image of a man’s face is projected in a cerulean light at a larger than life scale. — Kyle Dacuyan performing in *Legal Tender,* AntFest, Ars Nova, New York, June 11, 2019. Photo: Danny Bristoll. Courtesy the artist.

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About this commission

You’re driving. You’re flying.

You’re working. You’re listening.

To WBXI 104 FM. Hi stranger,

Hi caller. You heard it here first.

The reports. Of a threat.

What’s underway and what’s needed.

Dad calling in the back-ups.

Dad swaggers, Dad testifies.

You’ve heard this one before.

This one’s just for you.

Across episodic investigations of language and gesture, Kyle Dacuyan considers cultural constructions of masculinity. What protective characters arise from fictions of vulnerability, and how do those figures shape structures of empire? Dad Rock is an export, a mood, and a method. Dad Rock is a monologue that falls apart because of poetry.

Creative Team

Kyle Dacuyan

Kyle Dacuyan (he/they) is a 2021 NEA Fellow in Creative Writing and author of INCITEMENTS (Ugly Duckling Presse, forthcoming). He has been the recipient of additional fellowships from Poets House and Bread Loaf Writers Conference; a 2020 Finalist for the Jerome Hill Fellowship in Performance; and performance grants from the Charlotte Cushman Foundation, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, and Independence Foundation. In 2023, he received the Cy Twombly Award in Poetry from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. His first full-length performance work, Legal Tender, was commissioned and presented by FringeArts for presentation in the 2020 High Pressure Fire Service Festival. Other performance work has been presented at PARTICIPANT Inc, Ars Nova, Zurcher Gallery, Haus für Poesie Berlin, Montez Press Radio, and elsewhere. His poetry has been published in The Brooklyn Rail, Lambda Literary, The Rumpus, The Offing, and the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day series.

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This event takes place in The Griffin Theater.

June 27 – 29
7:30 pm

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Additional support for Open Call is provided by The Wescustogo Foundation and Jody and John Arnhold | Arnhold Foundation.

The creation of new work at The Shed is generously supported by the Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch Commissioning Fund and the Shed Commissioners. Major support for live productions at The Shed is provided by the Charina Endowment Fund, with additional support from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

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