Dayna McLeod

Ode to Dorothy reexamines the relationships of the main characters in The Wizard of Oz, revealing these relationships to be much more complicated and dark then we first understood as children. Comprised of footage from The Wizard of Oz and Meet Me in St. Louis, two musicals starring Judy Garland, the tape takes existing, iconographic images and reinterprets the footage to create an alternative narrative to the original storyline intended by L. Frank Baum.

How to Fake an Orgasm will give you insight into your lover’s needs and expectations. With clear, concise examples, this tape will show you exactly what to do and when to do it to get you through your faked orgasm worry free. Faking it will give you instant results that will satisfy your lover’s waning ego and indefinitely postpone those uncomfortable talks about sexual fulfillment.

A pornographic parody, Watching Lesbian Porn situates feminism as a means of manipulation in the lesbian world of dating. Armed with a selection of feminist texts by Judith Butler, Luce Irigaray, Laura Mulvey, bell hooks, and Andrea Dworkin, McLeod describes how flexible these texts really are. Meanwhile in the background, Ginger Discovery and Lucky Chopps give an over-the-top performance that is charged with campy choreography and sexy slapstick.

Takes a look at this exclusively expensive beauty treatment that is taking the world by storm, one face at a time. But what if you can’t afford teabagging? We also visit a group of lady do-it-yourselfers who are achieving the same amazing results without the spa salon price tag.

The ever-impenetrable Ken takes his sex-toy-filled closet aboard a mighty ship where he cruises his clone and embarks on a narcissistic romp, never letting his form-fitted mound of plastic spoil his fun.

The Bathroom Tapes: My Man is the first in a series of music videos shot entirely in the rooms of my apartment. Interested in domestic containment, nesting, and home-sweet-home comfort, these tapes play with aspects of domesticity through role-playing and denial in a self-constructed fantasy world that isn’t always pleasant.

A birthday message for my friend Deb about the time the Pope died and Montreal turned the cross lights purple on the mountain and we went up to take video and pictures. Also I’m a potato.

An accounting of dreams I’ve had while filtered as a D*sney cartoon.

A fantasy of freedom, a stroll in the park gives rise to an opening up of unstable sexual codes, shifting identities and the empowering game of come and go.

Did you ever have a crush on Anne Murray, singing her greatest hits with your dress tucked into your pantyhose? And what about Anne of Green Gables? These questions and oh so much more are autobiographically answered by performance artist Dayna McLeod in this mash-up that mixes Anne Murray's, “You Needed Me” with the made-for-television Canadian classic, Anne of Green Gables. Originally commissioned as a performance piece for Anne Made Me Gay, curated by Moynan King and Rosemary Rowe, Buddies in Bad Times.

This rickety-sticky digital animation features a lusty naked lady who is hell bent on getting off. Frustrated by her limited cable offering, she searches every room of her home for an old beau: her life-size vibrator. A game of seduction ensues that appears to climax with our heroine riding her rocket date into space, but actually culminates when she discovers that her electronic lover has left an attachment behind…

A video essay that uses voice over to examine compulsory heterosexuality in Wild at Heart (directed by David Lynch, 1990).

Secrets (shh!) is a 1-minute micro supercut remix of instances in film and TV where characters shh each other and talk about the telling and not telling of secrets. This micro supercut essay was created as part of, Secrets – The Essay Library Anthology Vol. 5 [A Micro-Essay Compilation].

I watch tv so you don't have to. Like the short description summaries that often accompany tv programs though an on-screen cable guide, Don't Ask Don't Tell Gay, Gay, Gay is a jump-cut/short-cut edit that summarizes the content of Season 4, episode 4 of Boston Legal. All excess footage has been removed to capture the mainstream reflection and tone of American discourse around DADT.

Media performance artist Dayna McLeod asked ChatGPT to write an increasingly snarky and heated dialogue between Roland Barthes and Michel Foucault about The Death of the Author, a famous essay by Barthes. This script is performed by AI actors of the theorists, with Dayna’s AI doppelgänger, DaynAI, acting as master of ceremonies.

A pornographic parody of sports commentary.