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Presented by the Arts Research Center with co-sponsorship from the Departments of Art Practice and Ethnic Studies, and the Program in Critical Theory
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Horror/ified
When approaching this idea of coexistence, I found my thoughts being magnetized towards nature. Ecological doom. Water wars. Resource scarcity/ hoarding. Anthropocentrism at its finest. After being in cohort with folks and after being given some space to pick through the ways coexistence exists…I started thinking about horror.
Time of Death
A black is born with a time of death.
Benjamin button’s origin story
Strip(p)ed black life of its truth
And paraded itself as unique.
Black longevity is a progression to birth
Misread as a sidestep of death
A sacrificial man teleported
3 days later than death had planned
For whiteness this was mere teleportation
For many others, alien abduction of time and space
A repatriation of life forced into the rhetoric of conquest
To return | a persimmon | fanned in sunset | in the driveway
This year I gave up the idea of maps. Otherwise known as the net cast over the body of the earth for conquest.
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This event is presented by ARC in partnership with Engaging the Senses Foundation
Multitudes in Coexistence
TW: Abuse and Violence
As I write and delete this page for the 100th time, I keep coming back to the Arts Research Center’s definition of Coexistence:
And I try to dissect every word. Try to align it with my thoughts and create poetry.
Yet, I begin to think about my childhood which did not embrace coexistence with open arms.
Instead, it forced comfortability in disillusionments that my life was accidental and worthless.
Confounded in cycles of abuse and abandonment.
My Marred Tongue
To live in one language
to live long enough to live
in another,
to remember things
you lived in one
but now inscribe in the other,
traces left
on the rim
of the glass of memory
now color your lips
as you kiss
your enemy
This event is co-sponsored by the Arts Research Center, California College of the Arts and Visual AIDS
Why not start at the darkest place?
Morgan Parker, before reciting any poetry from the page, speaks it naturally. Imagine her words: yourself, to begin with darkness. If we can see Darkness as a beginning, an end is not an end but a shift. Darkness is a transitory space that allows for a reposition, for an/other way or possibility. This returns to an earlier line of Cameron Awkward-Rich’s: “Some days I am the darkest thing I’ll see”. Imagine again: to see oneself darkly. And particularly, to know it is only a beginning opens deep relief.
