a prayer for a return to our knowledge
Firstdraft, Gadigal Country (Woolloomooloo, NSW)
11 March 2022
stills from live performance, drawing ancestral crochet on the body and vocalising
The Only Thing Left is to Leave Presented in partnership with Beirut Art Center, Arab Theatre Studio, supported by the Keir Foundation.
Photos: Jacquie Manning
methodically, rhythmically
catching the thread
making loops
I know this rhythm and movement, it has become <<automatic>> in my own body.
I need my deepest listening.
This is all I have
of her labour
of her knowledge
her skills
and love
and art.
I took them unceremoniously, a breaking of the bound threads.
(it wasn’t meant to be like this)
I found it with my imagination,
with my queer understandings of family and tradition and lineage.
when I broke what I perceived I was destined to carry,
through rebellion and refusal.