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THE POLITICS OF RUPTURE
Resistance is a verb of action. It requires a contact, a closeness and an exposure. It involves a position and an opposition, a subversion and a disruption. In order for one thing to resist another there must be a time lapse in which this action takes place, an interval. Through the juxtaposition of what was and what is, one is able to contextualize and understand any change produced; the remains from this action. Resistance is neither in the here nor in the there, but in the trans/course of the event as well.
Fall Through
Fall through is a text-responsive group. The idea is for a group of MFA students to get together, engaging in a critical discussion of a text and then produce some sort of object. In this first case, it was to be a collection of works responding to a specific text. The result is going to be made up into a collection of 5 books on the Politics of Rupture, with all the work in them reflecting the different ways of interpreting the text. The way to respond to the text was absolutely open, the only conditioning factor was that there must be 5 responses. I produced 5 booklets, sewn through with red thread. Some could be partially opened, but were held back by the tension in the threads.
The first text:
