Pause, Precarity // Mineral and Anger

From The Long Distance Lovers series

Video collage and screenplay, 2017-’18

In 2018, I began a text-to-speech poetry chorus, I call it The Long-Distance Lovers (though I call a lot of things the Long-Distance Lovers), and I played it for an audience inside of an old theater, in a small New Mexico town, during a residency. Because writing is an important part of my daily practice of making, and thinking, I wanted to use some of the reflections I'd made from the past two tumultuous years, full of grief and confusion, patterns and myths. I used my band of text-to-speech voices, set to found video fragments, to explore difficult questions about purpose, repression, and loss.

For each person I befriended in Carrizozo, who gave my work an ear and open heart, and also for the people in the audience who really didn’t like the opening episode of the new Twin Peaks, but stuck around anyway: a textual-spatial translation of the audio pieces I screened alongside Twin Peaks: The Return, during my time as AIR at MOMOZoZo in Carrizozo, NM.

An edition of bound screenplay chapbooks with relief-printed covers, distributed to a lot of cool folks in the New Mexico desert. Thank you to Paula Wilson, Mike Lagg, and Joan and Warren Malkerson of MOMAZoZo for that incredible opportunity to make, reflect, and make (in that order).