Wobbles
Everything is wobbly – looser, blurrier, less stable than it appears. Relationships are wobbly, identities are wobbly, socialities and culturalities, also wobbly. All those things which make up the world-of-worlds and our experience thereof as bodies-of-bodies are, more than anything, wobbly. To create a ground to stand on, a reality that feels stable enough to lean into and push against, we craft patterns and constellations – a world is worlded, a body is bodied. Yet the worlded-world we find ourselves with is a troublesome terrain of struggle, a convergence of forces staked in fixity and stasis through separation and isolation. Our bodied-bodies are limited and charged, often in ways which forestall desire and burden breath. To return life to dynamism, I propose we cultivate wobble-technique through wobbling practices. Methods for grappling with the intensities of pleasure and conflict found in relationality – various forms-of-practice for figuring mutable ways of becoming, for re-worlding and re-bodying.
In “Wobbles”, I will present and perform some of the wobbling practices I’ve been processing. These arrive at the intersection of two projects: Telos (2025), a creation-research process which considers the systems of practice and belief that generate the illusion of order in a reality so deeply marked by discord; and Wobbles (a book), an exploration of wobbling as both concept and practice through critical theory and dance-studio methodologies.
In this book (my first ever), I begin with playing as a powerful tool for wobbling reality – and attending to a reality always already wobbly. Thinking with three of my previous works, I unfold wobbling in three essays. Through Mythologies (2023-present), we’ll study how practices form and are formed by specifically systems of signification and how wobbling may disrupt them. Through Azathoth (2020-2022), how the process and experience of embodiment are historically-socially mediated, and how that mediation is troubled by the affective intensities which erupt through experiences such as playing. And through Knots (2024-present), how wobbling can become a tool for staying with the utter uncertainty and dysphoria of living with irreducible difference, and the potential of overwhelming experiences to beckon anarchy.
These presentations will be something between practice-sharing, lecture performance, and book launch. An invitation: to play, be disoriented – to wobble.
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Credits
My deepest gratitude to my supervisors, Ben Spatz and Gabriel Widing, who made this project feel possible and substantial; my NPP cohort, for the inspiration and intimacy I’ve found with you marvelous beings; and my NPP teachers, particularly Áron Levente, Martin Hargreaves, and Miriam von Schantz, for an onslaught of ruminations and titillations which compelled me to think and rethink. To my collaborators in the creation-research process Telos, Elias Kraft, Elliot Norell Strinno, and Simon Chatelain, for their mobilizing attention; my artistic communities in Berlin and Tel Aviv, who’ve got my back and who energize my insistence and stubbornness; and my friends, most of all in this process Roi Becker, Noam Segal, and Marquis Bey, who patiently helped mediate my enigmatic conspiracies into the actuality of this project - and finally, to my many fellow practitioners and thinkers, past and presents, found in its folds.
