Performance:
- Love Spells Symposium at Royal Holloway, University of London, May 2020
- Affect & Social Media 4.5 Sensorium University of East London, July 2020
- Akademie Schloss Solitude, July 2020
Publication:
- Visual essay and performance score in Love Spells & Rituals for Another World symposium publication, Royal Holloway, University of London, 2021
Worry People eat the dollshouse is a lockdown aesthetics narrative. Carried by a body that lives under the (non)normative orders of chaos by way of chronic illnesses that are mostly invisible, and inherently, irresolvable, its preexisting standard of infinite and unknowable confinement stands in parallel with Covid-19’s rampant effects on the reorganization of social life, or, in some ways, lackthereof.
The piece takes form as a mixed digital media screen performance of internet-mediated intimate exchanges and chosen and unchosen domestic scenes, including videos, texts, images, and readings, as a roving-through-another’s mind-body, revealing layers of spatiotemporal and socionormative captivities of this extreme moment in global history. It engages with the concepts of vulnerability, security, and ethics of care, in tension with dependency, power, and control. But, it is not without hope for thinking with a radical relationality that may be felt when loss of control encapsulates and founds subjectivities and socialities, possibly exposing reservoirs of alternative care capacity in new forms of interrelations - a cascade of virality and #quarantinelife under Covid-19.
