ZERO POINT
"In the manifesto of the spore it is stated: we are the rot manifest and mobile, claiming space, forging and froth dance capping across detritus. we weft light, undetected, seeding shadow cracks and timbre molt, nested in the edges of ideals, digesting telluric currents, we are the swelling luminous other, spoiling and emergent. we are the wound, made effervescent..."
Zero Point is a speculative performance lecture that steps past the possibility of societal and cultural collapse and into a distant future populated by queer, hybrid bodies, flourishing in a posthuman pastiche, a rich ecosystem arisen from the compost and debris of an anthropogenic age. Collapsing the past, present and future, and queering the dystopia/utopia binary, Zero Point is a New Materialist, Posthuman and Queer dispatch from a speculative future. Languishing in the uncanny imbrications of non-human worlds and Zero Point explores their knotty invitation to step through the fissures of the Anthropocene into a symbiotic world of collaborative survival.
“The first transition is the coldest. It slips in green, spreads its mossy mouth slowly through the bog of the body, staining the understory of certainty. It slicks and sputters, seeps into the damp of aqueous flesh, waking an inky bloom in cells and lung, it nests, between fits of uneasy dreams, shimmers and sprouts, swarms in the hair, writhes iridescent through cheek and marrow. It drones shapes of a mycelial inversion, the caverns and cathedrals of feted re-creation, the telluric current pulses a web whispered morse among the bodies in imbricated entropy, dissolving the edges of stories, the sluice of the worlds surface a sweet ferment, the fur of fungal mould spreads rhizomic across the corpus, mouths carbon from the dank soil near lichen reimagining a trunk in milky citrine…”
Zero Point is currently in development, the script was begun with support from the Voice in my Hands Associate Artist Program, and WIP presented in LIVE DREAMS TRANSCENDENCE at Performance Space 2021. The WIP featured sound art by Amais Hanley.
