artist statement
i make performances in search of…
ideas, movements, and words
a warm, wet potency
a place for us to meet
a (queer, far-left) politics of compassion, speculation, and hope
poetry that exceeds the violent semiotic entanglements we are subjected to daily
a melee of bones muscle breath flesh ligament sight sinew sound almost totality ecstasy
a diversion, a deep parting, a tonic for bronchial bite, collective wheezing in the steam and haze from limb to limb
a spell to soothe the weary and over it, recuperation from the static, assimilated illusions that distract us from our turning (turn with me, slide with me along the spokes of departure, we’ll knot ourselves into an irreducible, un-unravelable maybe)
a hex to boil the moderates, the middles, the can’t commits, the oh but what about the budgets, the i don’t get involveds, the meaningless platitudes, the think of the childrens, the leave yourself at the doors, the rational cautionings, the saving for a rainy days, the why can’t we all get alongs, the just be a little more realistics, the kind-of naive don’t you thinks, the single-issue balls of piss-poor excuses for no good nothings
somewhere to play in the gaps of our knowledge, to arrange words into different orders until we find something new, dance a solo of wild togethers - pass me the book you’re reading, we’ll peel the pages from it and cultivate a mould with our wet breath, scan the spores and code them into our email sign-offs, send them to the next prime minister
a utilitarian, unilateral chaos pact
second-hand hope
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