MARGINALIA
Marginalia is two female bodies, intimate, impetuous. A scribbled commentary on the official text of subjectification and objectification, sexualization and desexualization, demonization and domestication. Two women lift, work, sweat, and touch. Claiming the nuanced complexity of female rapport. Things that happen every day. Tiny revolts, unseen, unrecorded. Or a revolt upheld and enlarged by each witness. Marginalia is committed to somatic equality. Valuing the impulses of cells and fluids as highly as the nervous system. Putting the human creature on equal footing with the socialized person. An experiential metaphor. If we would have equity between all elements of society can we start with equally valuing all aspects of the body?
The scrawl of marginalia
Centralize the marginal
The body inherently political
Women’s bodies a political battleground
A body is not a battleground
A body is a person
Marginalia had a tech residency and performance at the John Michael Kohler Art Center in Sheboygan, WI, before being premiered in October, 2019 at Links Hall. An excerpt was shown at APAP | NYC on January 13, 2020, and the full work was presented at Dance Place in Washington, DC in 2023. The wig element of the costumes saw significant evolution before finally being removed completely for the last iteration.
For booking information, email jonathan@khecari.org.
