Episode 61 with Daniel Sea

The Adulting Well Podcast

This week have a wonderful talk with Daniel Sea.

Daniel Sea (he/they) is a trans non-binary actor, musician and artist. Sea has worked in film, theater and TV series. They played the first recurring transmasculine role on television, appearing from 2006-2009 as Max in Showtime’s The L Word. In 2022, he revised his role as Max for the current iteration of the L Word: Generation Q. They acted in films such as John Cameron Mitchell’s “Shortbus”, and Barbara Albert’s film “The Dead and The Living/Die Lebenden.”

As a conceptual artist, Sea works with interdisciplinary memoir, engaging in processes such as research-based performance, writing, music, drawing, video and photography. Prior to their work acting in mainstream tv and film, Sea came of age as an artist as a part of the queer punk, art and activist scenes of the San Francisco Bay Area, California in the 1990’s. His work transverses from the queer vanguard to the mainstream, intervening on pop culture, infecting the mainstream with a political and magical queer and trans agenda.

In collaboration Marissa Lobô, Jota Mombaça, Juliana dos Santos, and with participation from artist Ani Gonzaga, and activist Sonia Guajajara, Sea was a part of creating the theater piece “Ghost Times/Decolonizing Teatro Mundi”, at the Brüt Theater in Vienna, Austria.

Sea is co-writer, producer and songwriter on“La La La Little Shows”, a decolonial children’s sci-fi series, which includes animation, music performance, narrative storytelling and interviews with artists. This show centers BIPOC and Queer characters and artists.

Sea exhibited in October 2022 in the Library of the Academy of Fine Arts in a group exhibition “Archeology of Whispers”, which involved a photo installation and a solo performance based on research within the library’s archive, as well as a group performance with fellow artists.

Intergenerational communication, accessing transcestor knowledge through corporeal research and memories, intervening on the academy's institutional archive, were some of the themes of Sea's work within the exhibit. Sea, along with the currently unnamed artistic collective who created “Archeology of Whispers”, created a durational performance intervention in the Paintings Gallery of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, called “The Sea Room”. The Sea Room is a phantasmagorical journey through the primeval oceans of all life into the European hell of order, extraction, and ascension. It is a response, a call, and a question.

Daniel identifies as trans non-binary and uses he/they pronouns.

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