I consider performance as a practice of embodied speech acts— sort of emergency gestures— which attempt a simultaneous holding at bay of and affective entrance into structures of feeling; so we might register the continuous effects of harm▲ injustice and grief over time▼ Bodies are permeated structurally▲ intimately▼ and continuously by discrete events and ongoing systemic pressures▲ I understand my grapplings with objects or material as attempts to triangulate and register these forces between body▼ action and material▲ I do not see these gestures as destructive▼ rather they apply pressure to pressure▲

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