Pleasure membranes
Documentary
Is there pleasure in abjection? This performance project based takes as its starting point Darieck Scott’s theorization of the relation between Blackness and abjection—one marked by notions of defeat, debasement, and suffering, but also survival, power, and pleasure. The project harnesses the formal possibilities that Scott claims emerge from inhabiting a state of abjection. Dizzying vertigo might give way to pleasurable disorientation. Anguished ambivalence could transform into exhilarating indeterminacy. What delights might be uncovered in humiliation and debasement? Is the abject stuck in a loop, or free from the confines of linear temporality?
What powers are found when one “linger[s] in the gap of being”?