Dorian Wood
Los Angeles, CA
Dorian Wood seeks to glorify both the sanctity and irreverence of intimacy. Through the use of their corpulent body and booming voice, Wood revels in challenging the artist-audience separation, using subject matter informed by their own position in society as a nonbinary person of color and an autodidact. Their work has been showcased in concert halls and performance spaces around the world, including at such institutions as The Broad, REDCAT, The Stone, MASS Gallery, Kulturhuset in Stockholm, and Hebbel am Ufer in Berlin. As a musician, they have released over a dozen recordings, among them two back-to-back albums, Rattle Rattle and Down, The Dirty Roof, showcasing a series of doomsday-themed songs that incorporate over 60 musicians. Their album, XALÁ, marks the first time that Wood has recorded a full-length work in their mother tongue of Spanish. Wood’s Chavela Vargas tribute project XAVELA LUX AETERNA debuted at the Festival de Arte Sacro in Madrid.
Dorian Wood performs CALA I.
Dorian Wood performs Nodrissx/Narcissx. Photo: Marisa Caichiolo.
Dorian Wood performs XALÁ at Moers Festival.
Dorian Wood performs Xavela Lux Aeterna. Photo: Joe Ricciardi.
Dorian Wood performs "No Soy De Aquí, Ni Soy De Allá" at REDCAT.
Dorian Wood performs CORPULENXIA.
Dorian Wood and Ensemble Crush performs "The Heart's Filthy Lesson" at Moers Festival.
Canto de Todes
Dorian Wood seeks to glorify both the sanctity and irreverence of intimacy.
Artist BioEmphasizing the urgency of folk music as a vessel for social change, Dorian Wood’s Canto de Todes is a genre-defying canon of songs arriving in the form of a printed anthology, a recorded album, and a long-durational touring spatial experience.