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OXEN FREE

Gnat Bowden

September 9, 2023 6-9 PM
Performance by Pay Diry, Ophelia, and auntie, 9 PM*
*Suggested $10/PWYC
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Directions

The history of brutality intercepts and reinterprets identity. Recall.

My blackness. My liberation. Your gaze upon me. Has been corrupted and co-opted by the definition of liberation under white supremacy. Emboldened through and by capitalism. Operator. My body post industry, post chattel. Auction block. My register. My tone is being watched. About what can possibly remain. About psychic warfare and warning signs my mother taught me to read to survive. The master's tools now and always. Representation and stereotype. Interpretation. Conjuring. Heat wave. The minstrel that is american value/s. What does it mean for me? Giving.

Presenting myself as a performer in surveillance space. Defensible architectures. Declassified. My right to life and expression. Canary. Assembly line. To convince anyone of my life. No one of my right to escape the gaze of the state. To navigate the interpersonal violence that is meant to maintain my death. Body cam. The Trickle down of power.

Slice of life. Privilege to brutalize. Railroad me. My information and my infinite/finite becoming through the audience as witness. I am a ufo. I am the model t. My body continues.