The Nest
by Eireene Nealand and Megan Lueneburg
Collective traumas are distressing or disturbing experiences that affect large numbers of people. Such traumas can be difficult to heal because they tear at the social fabric, disorienting individuals, and spawning personality traits that make it difficult for individuals to connect. Yet, in a small village in the hills of Bulgaria, participants in a festival called Goat Milk wove their traumatic memories together into a nest designed to regrow social tissues.
Read "Painter and Model" in the Spring issue!
"Have you ever seen a mother mad with grief? Well, it doesn't look great. Pick up the diaper, put it down: the diaper, the dish, the laundry, the kid. Suddenly, worrying over a sniffle turns out to be the anguish that happens after your kid learns to drive. Before they can crawl or put too many things in their mouths is when you’re supposed to set everything right. Trying, perhaps, you sit with your own Ma, hoping to feel slow and safe. If you don’t have that, that’s when you enter Picasso’s world, like after the accident, when they put my arm in a sling, and it was just hanging there right by my tit.
I stood up and looked at my shoulder and thought, Ut oh. It’s not supposed to look like that. Sucked in, skin concave where the bone’s meant to poke — it’s not supposed to look like that unless you’re in a Picasso, which is when I started to laugh."
The Darkroom
For the first time ever in English, Marguerite Duras, The Darkroom, translated with Alta Ifland, published by Contra Mundum Press
Why it's so important:
https://www.eireene.net/critical/
New performance piece in progress with Kinetech
Come experiment at Kinetech Open Labs
Wednesdays @ 8 ODC Campus - 351 Shotwell St, SF
