POST PORTAL PROJECT
A series of experiments, glitches, happenings... longings to enact new ways of being.
This work is poly disciplinary- spanning modes, mediums and materials.
Tarps, cameras, books, bodies, windows, markers, blacklight and thumping bass.
Night clubs of somatic and sonic sensations.
Slow and excruciating connections made awkward, hilarious or tender.
Touching reality and recoiling into the imaginary.
Realizing the illusion can become real.
ARTISTS
Mo Neon River Glitch creates visual and performance art that witnesses the brilliance, violence and complexities of our worlds. They open up new possibilities for how to live in this time through tapping into different shapes and patterns of existence. Their work utilizes academic research methods & inquiry through embodiment practices, with queer/trans studies of ecology, gender wildness, & critical phenomenology. Neon is an artist who opens portals to surviving within the confines & crumbling of modernity. They live in Mi'kmaki with their children, lover and communities.
Mo works in contact and connection with cross disciplinary artists to create these performances disrupting patterns of individualism. Crossing conventional boundaries of genre, medium and categorization these hook ups or contacts spark and disrupt. They break open and excavate. Queering expectations and glitching assumptions.
Mo Phùng, Liliona Quarmyne, Carmel Farahbakhsh, Daren Okafo, Louisa Adamson, Adam Lobel and Brandon Auger have all co-created these performances.
“Encryption, as a process, indicates the encoding of a message, rendering it unreadable or inaccessible to those unauthorized to decipher it. To consider glitch as a form of encryption, we render the plaintext of the body (e.g., the body viewed through a normative binary lens) as ciphertext (e.g., a glitched body, queered and encrypted).”
Legacy Russell "Glitch Feminism"
GRATITUDE
Listening to the water, plants, rocks and animals has been a significant part of this creation process. The beings that showed themselves and offered insight, humor, beauty and wildness are the heart of the work. These beings revealed themselves in moments of defeat or stuckness again and again.
...AND HUMANS
This work has been shaped deeply by so many human thinkers, feelers, makers and dreamers.
A web/constellation/luminous entanglement of possibilities and imaginations.
I am grateful for all of the stories, writing, podcasts, visuals, videos, songs and poems that moved through my senses and onto the paper and into the performances.
These artifacts are the residue, remnants and crumbs of the deep and inspiring work that I have witnessed.
SOURCESPRINGS
salt water. bee. moth. ferns. oak. crab. lobster. sea star. minnow. ghost pipe. fir. raven. grackle. lake. seaweed. squirrel. snake. sand. sweet bay. loon. wintergreen. sky. gold thread. mouse. starling. mushroom. flounder. moss. pine. barnacle. maple. squid. wave. river. slate. rose. wind. aster. oyster. birch. hermit thrush. lichen. eagle. butterfly. duck. wren. hawk. snail. mosquito. rain. turtle. mink. spider. ant. hemlock. dandelion. frog. lotus. moon. cormorant. juniper. slug. kelp. owl. beaver. seed. cloud. star. blackberry. snow. deer. seagull. bluejay. alder. tick. ctenophora. beech. willow. vulture. spruce...
ROOTNOTES
arundhuti roy. susan stryker. josé esteban muñoz. kai cheng thom. legacy russell. vivek shraya. adrienne maree brown. autumn brown. keith haring. eli clare. gesturing towards decolonial futures collective. reina gossett. avery alder. silvia federici. donna haraway. kent monkman. grace lee boggs. khari wendell mclelland. lou sullivan. morgan m page. alexis pauline gumbs. alok vaid-menon. andrea long chu. namwali serpell. julietta singh. staci k haines. kim tallbear. prentis hemphill. greer lankton. ivan coyote. jack halberstam. fred moten. chris e vargas. dean spade. mariame kaba. leanne betasamosoke simpson. sarah ahmed. leah lakshmi piepzna samarasinha. chani nicholas. eula biss. resmaa menakem. torrey peters. boychild. wu tsang. joshua whitehead. hil malatino.