Alec Mateo is a Dominican writer and performer from New York, working with poetry, sound, and movement to explore fugitive subjectivities and modes of togetherness. This video and text were produced as a response to the exhibition I didn’t think it would turn out this way by David Dale Gallery, marking the fourth part of the exhibition program Am I an Object. The program – that will run until March 2022 – is further featuring a solo presentation by Suchan Kinoshita. It will be responded to in writings and events by students from the Sandberg Institute Critical Studies Department.