the time of rock (excerpt)

Videography: Ken Cunningham; Performance and Editing: P. Megan Andrews

facing, a different way

Including [Facing, East?] phasing gesture sequence, with choreographer Sarah Chase; Performance & Videography/Editing: P. Megan Andrews

Inversioning, in situ – an ongoing practice.

Thank you to everyone who has participated by taking my photo. See my IG for individual posts, critical-poetic texts and photo credits.

Objects & Actions

arriving, addressing the space, being with objects, witnessing what arises, working, writing, reflecting, leaving

in the repetition of gestures

Textual gesture: animating after movingspeaking. (Quote: Sara Ahmed, Queer Phenomenology, 2006)

Video Gesture 03 by Angela Joosse

Media artist and scholar, Angela works with me as a dramaturge on this project. This is her work, in conversation with mine, using my footage.

[Facing, East?]

Phasing Gesture Sequence: with choreographer Sarah Chase; Videography: Ken Cunningham; Performance & Editing: P. Megan Andrews

WritingReading Backwards

A gesture from the beginning of my backwards writing practice. It was only after I’d begun that I recognized I’d enacted disorientation.

where are you now?

Textual gesture developed through an iterative process: animating while sensing the embodied residue of prior movingspeaking. (Text, mine)

Video Gesture 01 by Angela Joosse

Media artist and scholar, Angela works with me as a dramaturge on this project. This is her work, in conversation with mine, using my footage.

in the gathering

Textual gesture: animating after movingspeaking. (Quote: Sara Ahmed, Queer Phenomenology, 2006)

Video Gesture 04 by Angela Joosse

Media artist and scholar, Angela works with me as a dramaturge on this project. This is her work, in conversation with mine, using my footage.

in the repetition of gestures, remix

“We could say history happens, in the very repetition of gestures…” (Sara Ahmed, Queer Phenomenology, 2006)

Walling (Pushing on a Wall)

Sometimes we need to push on structures, even if they seem impossible to shift. How does this act shift me?

facing not facing

Textual gesture developed through an iterative process: animating while sensing the embodied residue of prior movingspeaking. (Text, mine)

Video Gesture 02 by Angela Joosse

Media artist and scholar, Angela works with me as a dramaturge on this project. This is her work, in conversation with mine, using my footage.

a primordial swerve

Textual gesture: animating after movingspeaking. (Quote: Jane Bennett, Vibrant Matter, 2010)

Video Gesture 05 by Angela Joosse

Media artist and scholar, Angela works with me as a dramaturge on this project. This is her work, in conversation with mine, using my footage.