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Mark-Making

Mark-making inspires me as a map of movement — a document as a way of seeing and hearing. I imagine the invisible whoosh line of the static that my body leaves behind me as I wave my arm around. Jotting it down is an instance artifact.

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Animate Forms

"Animate forms of life are moved to move” [1]. Yet the concept of animation isn't merely about the state of being alive; it encompasses movement in all capacities. Through eating, playing, fucking, pissing, stretching, fighting, falling and so on. Even holding still is a form of deliberate animation [1].

Payne, H., Koch, S., & Tantia, J. (Eds.). (2019). The Routledge International Handbook of Embodied Perspectives in Psychotherapy: Approaches from Dance Movement and Body Psychotherapies (1st ed.). Routledge. p.19 https://doi-org.proxy3.library.mcgill.ca/10.4324/9781315159416

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On Movement

Movement to me is the only way to cope. It soothes me. It quiets my mind for a minute, putting it to sleep while I dance and jump and spin. When I wake up I can make sense of it all. A revelation that needed to be shaken out of me. My own wisdom. Who knew we could hold such knowledge? The knowledge lives inside my big toe and I have to shake it all the way up to my brain.

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Walking in an Exaggerated Manner Around the Perimeter of a Square

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Bruce Nauman, Failing to Levitate in the Studio, 1966.

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Performance Artist Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen’s Homage to Janine Antonio’s “Loving Care” (1996)