unfolding

A 121 performance that takes as its starting point the Rosy Maple Moth’s transformation from caterpillar to moth. Through sounds, text and proximity, the piece explores a number of intersecting ideas. It explores the notion of a queer listening/sounding, imagined as a here as an openness towards the world and the Other. It explores a queering of ‘growth’ and transformation; inspired by how we grow and create ourselves anew as queer (or not) humans, away from (or despite) heteronormative (or other) expectations and pressures. It draws on Katherine Bond Stockton’s ideas ‘growing sideways’ instead of ‘growing up’.

It imagines sounds as something which travel across thresholds, across affect theory’s ‘brain-body-world entanglement’  and imagines a queer listening that stretched both inwards and outwards at the same time.