...fantasies are wild and reckless things and I often lose control. (2016)
This piece was written, produced, and performed in collaboration with Violet Eckles-Jordan.
This piece was originally created as a space for Violet and I to think through their pregnancy fantasies by trying to relate their unique and specific experiences with wanting children/wanting to be pregnant/and wanting to give birth to an innate desire in all humans to (pro)create. In this performance lecture, we make the argument that in the inaccessibility of the physical and psychological experience of birthing and pregnancy to be experienced by all bodies, as well as the institutionalization of pregnancy and the pregnant body, we respond through fear, fantasy, desire, and fetish of the act of birth itself. "Together, our bodies and words navigate spaces we can't reach. We find ourselves on the edge of possibility in what is still impossible, and it is a wild, reckless thing."
Photo and Video: Jeremy Freedberg and Benjamin Kolak