How can we move with, hold, and be present with rage in our bodies? 

How can we divest from capitalist, colonial and patriarchal modes through the performative that have made us internalize how rage is simply destructive, unsafe, and undeserving of existing? Or, only existing to be expressed by certain bodies and not others? 

How do marginalized bodies navigate and resist this?

How can speculative ecoresistance support acts of raging?


ᗷOᗪY TOᑎGᑌEᔕ: TEᑕᕼᑎO_ᖇᗩGE (2023) is a collaborative ongoing process-based research on the performativity of collective rage in the public space initiated by me and including artists Fazle Shairmahomed, Suziethecockroach, Keiria H. and Warren Jones. The research began through multiple relational points within former collaborations and creative processes in which Shairmahomed and I developed work within the context of Lim Collective’s care arts program doing workshops on trans* rage, and artistic caretaking consulting for artists and cultural workers. And within the work developed within the former multimedia installation performance piece Obsidian Dream Love Letters with Jones, suziethecokroach and Keiria. Bringing these two contexts together meant articulating continuity in the investigation of ecoerotic and ecoresistant visual and textual care manifesto narratives, the centrality of e-motion, queering, decolonial ritualising, and body hacking.

The first outcome in process has been a video performance of the first version of a rage_choir protocol filmed in aalborg at the micro residency at Lim Collective with artists Fazle Shairmahomed, Suziethecockroach, Keiria H. and Warren Jones collaborating in it. Three bodies moving in blue light, raging, grieving, whaling, holding each other. Then the scene cuts into similar gestures but in an open space at an old wide burial site covered in snow (such as the video still above of Fazle Shairmahomed). These rage_choir protocols imply a witnessing of and holding of each other’s rage through the somatic, touch, regard, observation, active listening, vocalization, movement, and an unfolding of the various layers that rage contains.

The research will continue with several residencies in collaboration with Hosting Lands in Denmark and Whose Museum in Sweden.

The first public talk and presentation of the work in progress took place on the 8th December 2023 at Buens Queer Bookstore Cafe with support from Statens Kunstfond