2 Become 1
2026

Performance, video, sound, installation, approx. 25min


Performance done at Third Space Studios in Miami, FL as a part of BUFFER (2026). The performance examines the role algorithims play in creating and reinforcing norms of masculinity online from Manosphere content to pornography.

Sinanan sits across from a television picking up live video from his computer and phone. The video has a green screen effect on it with the chroma key color set to his skin tone. In front of him is a series of 15 cards, arranged in a 5x3 grid with different stanzas from a ghazal printed on them. Each stanza is paired with an image from social media or pornography that is on his computer which is running popular streaming software OBS. He begins by asking the audience for a number and starts at the numbered card. As the card is selected, he attempts to enter the position of the figure in the image, often times failing. He utters the stanza from the poem at this point. Then he moves through each card algorithmically, by moving up one card and right one card, performing the same action – getting into position, then speaking. Once complete, he lip syncs to Spice Girls 2 Become 1 and distributes the cards to the audience.