The January exhibit at I-House features the compelling and unique drawings and performance art of UC Davis Performance Studies PhD candidate Maurice Moore. Based on dynamic presentation practice, Maurice’s performance of Drawing While Black aka Black Boy Joy, and the two-dimensional drawings he creates, explore how Black queer people have implemented and created a means of survival through African and African-American diasporic aesthetics. Black performance serves as a mode of active radical resistance drawing upon multiple traditions and technologies. In his piece, Maurice literally dances and/or moves the Black body to create the work that in turn determines the movement. This piece explores the tactile experience of “Drawing while Black.” The performative aspect of drawing unconsciously allows Maurice to be vulnerable, and to channel a range of energies. He becomes a living drawing in both the archival and non-archival sense. His two-dimensional drawings also reflect this and explore the gamut of Black and queer experience. Maurice is currently a doctoral performance studies student at the University of California, Davis and recently completed his master’s degree in African American Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.