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3 Introduction 7 Making: 9 Backplaces 19 Talking Documents 31 Wink 39 What do graphic designers do all day. and why do they do it. and. what does "graphic. design" even mean????!!1!? .49 Writing: 51 <?water bodies> 103 Performing the Bureaucratic. Border(line)s 157 Fair Leads 201 ⊞ 253 Special Issues: 255 Garden Leeszaal 267 Console 273 TTY -->
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<div id="content"><h1 id="backplaces">Backplaces</h1>
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<p>Hi.<br />
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I made this play for you. It is a question, for us to hold together.</p>
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<p>Is all intimacy about bodies? What is it about our bodies that makes
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intimacy? What happens when our bodies distance intimacy from us? This
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small anthology of poems and short stories lives with these
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questions—about having a body without intimacy and intimacy without a
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body.This project is also a homage to everyone who has come before and
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alongside me, sharing their vulnerability and emotions on the Internet.
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I called the places where these things happen backplaces. They are
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small, tender online rooms where people experiencing societally
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uncomfortable pain can find relief, ease, and transcendence.</p>
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<p>I made three backplaces for you to see, click, and feel: Solar
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Sibling, Hermit Fantasy, and Good Pie. Each of these is the result of
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its own unique performance or project. Some of the stories I will share
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carry memories of pain—both physical and emotional. As you sit in the
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audience, know I am with you, holding your hand through each scene. If
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the performance feels overwhelming at any point, you have my full
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permission to step out, take a break, or leave. This is not
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choreographed, and I care deeply for you.</p>
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<p>Solar Sibling is an online performance of shared loss and the complex
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pain that siblings can sometimes bring. This project uses comments
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people left on TikTok poetry. I extracted the emotions from these
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comments, mixed them with my own, and crafted them into poems. It is an
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ongoing performance, ending only when your own feelings are secretly
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whispered to me.</p>
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<p>Hermit Fantasy is a short story about a bot who wants to be a hermit.
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Inspired by an email response from a survey I conducted about receiving
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emotional support on the Internet, this story explores the contradiction
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of being online while wanting to disconnect. It is a web play inviting
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you to navigate both of these feelings.</p>
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<p>Cake Intimacies is a performance that took a year to bring together.
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It is a small selection of stories people told me and I held to memory
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and rewrote here. The stories come from two perfomances I hosted. In the
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first, I asked participants to eat cake, sitting facing or away from
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each other and sharing their stories about cake and the Internet. The
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second perfomance was hosted at the Art Meets Radical Openness Festival,
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as part of the Turning of the Internet workshop. For this performance I
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predicted participants’ future lives on the Internet using felted
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archetypes and received stories from their Internet past in return. Now
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the stories are here, each of them a cake with a filling that tells a
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story, merging the bodily with the digital and making a mess of it
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all.</p>
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<p>I love you and hope you see what I saw in these stories.</p>
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<p>Safe dreams now. I will talk to you soon.</p>
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