In my creative imagination, photography and sound are my primary media. They are sensoria toward ethical world-making. The art is an invitation to experience, to aesthetic intimacy, and to blacktransmovements beyond.

Recent Collaborations

See select images and oral histories from “Spirit in the Dark Body: Black Queer Expressions of the Im/material” (2019) in Ambrose’s forthcoming book A Living Archive: Embodying a Blackqueer Ethics

Contributor, Cane: A New Critical Edition Oracular Card Deck, a project by Diane Exavier, Carlos Sirah and Anne de Marcke (Olympia, WA: The 3rd Thing Press, 2023).

release (2021)

Written and Performed by Elyse Ambrose

Cinematography by Elyse Ambrose

This video features audio excerpts from a "Movement Monday" episode by Kyndra Frazier with permission. This media was a part of the “Animisms, Those Queer Transmissions” (June 2022) performance and film series, curated by Jaguar Mary X through Local Project (NYC).

ceiling | sky, archive #293.

An archival excerpt from mama [rose.]— an experimental choreopoem as meditation

Written and performed by Lambda Literary finalist, storäe michele

Cinematography by Elyse Ambrose

a practice in freedom-making, archive #28.

An archival excerpt from mama [rose.]— an experimental choreopoem as meditation

Written and performed by Lamda Literary finalist, storäe michele

Cinematography by Elyse Ambrose