A letter to an apocalyptic lover

Dangerous lovers are sitting on our necks.
How do we resist? What radical methods and acts of disobedience can we practice against their oppressive structures and systems?

An apocalyptic lover is the force you desire even as it destroys you - a system, a state, a body, a memory. It seduces through power, promises safety while enacting harm, offers love wrapped in control. It is  dressed as care, disguised as intimacy, whispered through longing. To name the apocalyptic lover is to expose the violence in closeness, and to begin resisting it through voice, rupture, and collective defiance.

In this participatory workshop, I perform a letter to my own apocalyptic lover for you. Afterward, we map and gather your apocalyptic lovers - addressing the global, romantic, political, medical, legal, environmental, personal, and other contexts they reside. We will introduce and address them through imagination, discussion, and writing, as well as performative methods; speaking out, reciting, or singing, and listening within a collective, cacophonic choir.

A letter to an apocalyptic lover, performance

Screenshots from the video documentation

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