beyonding: a trans exegesis
This piece was written in mind with the trans body necessarily, always, surveying new (bodily and material) topographies. The trans body in practice, in movement, has signification greater than ‘beyond-the-gendered-body’, or ‘beyond-a-body-which-it’s-come-from’, or ‘beyond-a-body-left-behind’, or ‘beyond-a-body-yet-to-be-arrived-to/in’. The trans body is a practice, which ‘beyonds’ bodies. Its call towards choreography, is a call towards choreographing the beyond. This beyond, transgresses bodies. The trans body is the form (one form), it takes to beyond. Into, and as, beyond-body, the body engulfs itself.
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It is not to work against, or with, the body
/hold the body
is to make the body elsewise,
scan horizon, find body
waiting,
urban heated-island, body
pausing.
swelter between heat, and what-comes-next
body pause, spun for, around earth
filling space
of between-everything
textual, sprung from rock
body falls at night
body, terrain-fallen
is concerned no intimacy
body, that bloods
cavernous
/the blood that shared
split/
concerned no animacy
built the body up
height; emblematic
emblematic leaf
body of
cornea
body
feeds itself
body.
all that is attacked comes from within,
or so they say
written on unceded Gadigal lands
Exclusively commissioned for the Dancehouse Diary
Image: bird bodied, Raynen Bajette O’Keefe