We can become part of a widening when we refuse to be narrowed. - Sara Ahmed, Living a Feminist Life

Resistance is a relationship. Are you keeper or are you kept?
Resistance is geologic.

What does resistance look like when the algorithm knows your shames, your loves, your kinks, knows what you want before you want it? When the protest gets a police escort? When you buy a Starbucks afterward, because god can we just live for a minute?

At every turn you foil me. And yet through some luck/grace/will/inverse inertia we get on with it - with the spongy matter of loving.

The pitfalls are many! The vertical task of somehow having connection when the name of the game is to go untouched. A saddling of SLOW deliberate motion that must sustain a strobe light of assaults. We doom-scroll to chill out. Can I resist and still have fun?

We cannot speak of resistance without her sister temptation. And get to a salient point that yes sometimes to resist is to forgo desire, to deny pleasure - a wet with wanting and mouth full of lightning that_goes_nowhere_.  Although_ must every lost hard-on become a little baby angel in heaven? Might we question the narrative that everything you’ve ever wanted is a half breath away; dreams that become landfill, become bombs, and then too become billable at $300 per hour so you can cry in front of someone who’s sworn to secrecy. Might we question the myth that accountability isn’t sexy, was never sexy.

Might we crawl toward an ethic that holds frustration and elation. Toward a field of heterogeneity, plurality, exchanges, toward dildonics (thank you, Paul). Is resistance an insistence on collectivity, on saliva vs. bleach?

We have been able to resist because we expanded our subjectivity, refusing to accept the idea that we’re all the same. - Ailton Krenak, Ideas to Postpone the End of the World

We are looking for work that takes up the project of resistance, in the un/knowable breadth of what that may mean.

See Curatorial Essay here

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Participating Artists: Elizabeth Shores, Laura Iancu, Jena Seiler & Nicole L. Martin, Elizabeth Schneider & Michael Covello,Tommy Hartung, Angie Jennings, Logan Dandridge, Grau Del Grau, Adam Farcus, Piper Hill, Carolyn Lambert

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Images courtesy of the artist: Elizabeth Shores - still from Placing a Cube in a Canyon, Laura Iancu - still from Half Life, Jena Seiler & Nicole L. Martin - still from The Keeping Space, Elizabeth Schneider & Michael Covello - still from Becoming an Oyster, Tommy Hartung - still from Individuality, Angie Jennings - still from THE STIGMA FOG SAINT Wards Off Extinction, Logan Dandridge - still from Something Like a Sonnet, Grau Del Grau - still from Purple Cloud, Adam Farcus - still from Five Minutes to Presence, Piper Hill - still from A Deal, Carolyn Lambert - still from Clear-Cut