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We invite you to get familiar with the fourth participant of the dance research platform \u201cbit\u0117s\u201922\u201d \u2013 Kevin Fay \u2013 and his insights about the process:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Do you have questions\/thesis\/challenges from which you want to continue the research that you have started?<\/strong><\/p>\n

In my work, I engage with the subjects of masculinity, feminism, language, and the body. Research in these directions includes a lot, but I focus on deconstruction, and that feels important, exciting, and arduous.<\/p>\n

Thankfully, after a long stretch of serious, studious engagement with literature from masculinity researchers and feminists, input and support from \u201cbites\u201d points me towards new possibilities. Indeed, as I think about sociopolitical strife and my relation to that as a queer, white, male artist, I ask myself about love, lightness, play, and wonder. I challenge myself and ask \u2013 \u201cHow can I revel in chaos or find pleasure in madness? How do I create pleasure in the midst of deconstruction?\u201d With deconstruction at the\u00a0heart of what I\u2019m doing, I wonder: how do sense-making capacities like listening relate to the fragmentation, dissolution, or hybridity that results from deconstruction? Can artistic work make an experience of deconstruction pleasurable? These are tricky questions, but I respond strongly to them, and I know that\u2019s valuable.<\/p>\n

To continue, I will invite a sense of wonder or play into my experience. After all, deconstruction can be jarring and confusing, and the balms offered by love, lightness, play, and wonder feel very important to me right now. What\u2019s more, as a queer, white man engaging with issues, questions, and desires oriented specifically towards the deconstruction of the patriarchy, I feel very much like this shift in mood and orientation will give rise to new methods and ideas. As a matter of fact, I\u2019ve decided to develop \u201csensitivity salons\u201d, which I imagine as workshops or performance happenings where new forms for social dancing exist alongside intimate, small-scale lullaby sessions. It\u2019s maybe a little bit muddy or hard to understand when I write about it like this, but this idea feels like a way for me to work with play, and I\u2019m excited to see what comes.<\/p>\n

Which aspects of the platform enabled you? Which aspects were challenging? In order to know: what did you need\/what worked for you?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Input from guests and facilitators was inspiring. In a special way, proximity to artists who are already busy with unending questions and processes gives me hope \u2013 not that something will arrive or resolve, just that following questions and keeping them alive is worthwhile \u2013 admirable, even.<\/p>\n

Also, sharing a practice of writing in the group gave me a feeling of solidarity, and that supported me very well \u2013 especially since we could share musings and inspirations on a\u00a0blog. Finally, as someone who is currently not sharing his work online, preparing posts for social media helped me clarify what I\u2019m saying. Truly, having other eyes and ears support me in my ruminations clarified what I want to do. I just sometimes wished that we had more time to talk, ask each other questions, and share resources. I mean, I know it\u2019s not healthy or practical to stare at a computer for many hours in a row, but there\u2019s only so much we can do together online. So, I hope we\u2019ll meet in person in the future, and I hope we\u2019ll find ways to share our unending processes as they develop. In the meantime, it\u2019s great that we have a blog to record what we\u2019ve touched on together. For sure, I\u2019ll go back to it, and I\u2019ll continue adding to what I shared.<\/p>\n

What is the value of having a constant exchange and discussions with the same group of people? How did it influence your thinking?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Constant exchange and discussions with the same group of people is something I\u2019ve been seeking \u2013\u00a0especially because\u00a0collective, emergent intelligence is always\u00a0of interest to me. What\u2019s more, in times\u00a0like these, I crave a sustained feeling\u00a0of community around artistic work, and I\u2019m very grateful we had this time together.<\/p>\n

For me, the value in what we shared comes not from specific feedback or statements \u2013 though those have been stellar, and I\u2019ve got a lot of favorites in my notes \u2013 but from the support of others witnessing me in process. That is, having constant exchange and discussions with the same group of people gave me the feeling that others were listening, following, and remembering with me so that when my thinking shifted or something new\u00a0emerged, there were many ways of processing and reflecting. Shortly put, beyond tracking a structured progression in one person over time, a collaboration like this one enriches individual thinking in as much as it also offers a person new possibilities. I mean, there\u2019s tremendous respect and freedom between us, but the openness, the honesty, and the strength of conviction among us produced questions, thoughts, and feelings I know I\u2019ll return to as I continue. This is special, I think, and this is something I will always treasure.<\/p>\n

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The project is funded by Lithuanian Council for Culture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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