ABSTRACT
This chapter comprises excerpted glossary entries and event scores from Lukin Linklater’s performance/dance/poetry/video work, A glossary of insistence (2016), that has been staged in various iterations across Canada and the US. Including quotes, anecdotes, and references to historical and contemporary cultural workers, exhibitions, and movements, Lukin Linklater ruminates on insistence, resistance, ethics, and excess. The piece is both poetry and thesis, including strategic omissions—deletions that remain legible—and event scores for particular performers. Throughout the alphabetized glossary entries, the “insistence” of colonial structures and barriers, borders, and institutions is challenged by the opposing “insistence” of Indigenous presence, daily refusals, and transgressive movement that “exceed” colonialism.
