Public Infrastructure, by Tamara Jones. Text by Aliya Pabani
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Public Infrastructure, by Tamara Jones. Text by Aliya Pabani

In contact improvisation, yielding is the process of actively responding to a person’s movement and weight instead of resisting it. From the moment of greatest yielding, new possibilities emerge. The responsive body is both internally aware and externally affected. The left and right hand. The body becoming flesh.

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My Airs
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My Airs

What lines between what
bore me and what I became

I am of someone blood
-line and unbound

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A little food is a feast
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A little food is a feast

To Sanaa;
to everyone you’ve generously shared with;
to visitors following the stories in A little food is a feast;

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wet like an open vowel sound
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wet like an open vowel sound

I enter, as always, into language. The gallery window opens onto Dundas and Chinatown. Rain and sun, from an indecisive mid-October morning, take turns stumbling into the panes. Behind the glass, SCOBY skins stretched thin evoke flags, curtains, laundry suspended on wooden frames. Joy shows me ceramic urns and glass jars on a blank shelf, their purpose still undetermined.

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