Bo Dautruche — EAST FLATBUSH

Bo’s project seeks to work within the Haitian community to explore and understand our relationships to death in its natural occurrences, as well as death that happens to our communities at the hands of colonization. Through gatherings and prompts, she asks: If we understood death to be a portal that is just as sacred as life, could that integrated notion change our relationship to living and protect our livelihood both individually and collectively? 

Bo Dautruche is a Brooklyn-born/based strategist, writer, and death doula. She carries a strong passion for exploring and researching communications due to her belief that communication is a foundational element in creating realities, thus becoming a foundational tool in designing our lived experiences. Her work tends to explore themes surrounding death, (re)birth, embodiment, culture as survival, and connectivity. Cxlture Vxlture is her speculative practice where Bo gets to play with these concepts, deciphering communications through the lenses of language, translation, and space. Ultimately, her desire is to materialize realities that sustain the collective — especially those that are perpetually disregarded, overworked, and underserved.