beyonding: a trans exegesis

Issue #12.2: New Topographies of the Body

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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