ABSTRACT
The archive is predated by events; things, stuff, occurrences in muscle tissue, text and imagination, chemical balances, that remain, and will not be forgotten. An acceleration of matter, a material shift, that exhales and spores. A deceleration of molecules, a slow, absent duet, that inhales and ripples across years. A de-territorialisation of self, one artist gives their work to be the source of the other's. The archival body-as-source is a place from where things are gotten. Performance as issue is an eruptive boundary, a flux-line emitting radiation in the advent of real time subject formation. Reply performances made by the performer-in-waiting offer a counterpoint, introducing imbalances with cellular archiving and the de/coding of corporeal indexes. The archive refuses to be bound, upon any disturbance it bleeds at the borders. Culture occurs as a cutting edge rupture at the end of leaves of paper.
