&Now 2019 Conference

How do we converge when unsettled? Where can we turn to in the midst of ruin and decay? Our panel will be a two-part experimental performance / reading that questions and explores an environment in constant flux, centering oscillations, ephemerality, and duality over oppositions, permanence, and singular ways of being. Through interrogations of memory and legibility, we ask what is revealed in the overlaps and silences within poems and between bodies, voices, and languages, as well as what possibilities can emerge out of (are lost, due to) our inarticulability and drifting, our unsettlement. Our presentation will recognize gestures, gibberish, silences, and remembering—among other forms of speech—as potential ways of communicating and, with the audience, explore what happens inside an environment of continued unsettlement. Together, how do we imagine futures of connection and possibility? In an open system, all agents are culpable in deciding.