INFORMATION
IN HIS FOURTH BOOK, Anaïs Duplan reinvents ekphrasis as an act of devotion to art as both the sense-archive and future tense of Black embodiment. In this vibrant thinkspace (where thinking is singing), Duplan hosts a vivid community of Black musicians, performers, painters, photographers, poets, critics, filmmakers and video artists, even a chorus of lovelorn chatroom denizens. I Need Music hosts the lyric re-arrivals of unquiet pasts, enacts a haptic intimacy with the present, and vibrates with the immanence of Black, queer futures.
THIS COMPANION SITE houses the notes, acknowledgments, responses, miscellany, etc. that made I NEED MUSIC possible.
Section 13: [The matter we believe in must have subsisted during the act of thinking.]
[The matter we believe in must have subsisted during the act of thinking.]
This is a space for dancing. When the lights strobe it’s like being found anew. The ground is strewn with flowers because why shouldn’t each step mean entering a state of grace. It’s fragrant in here and the petals are springy. A drawing in ink is so revelatory, every trace tells of speed, faltering, elation, misstep, directionality. You can’t hide when you’re dancing either. Some people know tunes and dance moves by heart. I’ve never tried to draw the same thing twice, but the hand learns anyway. Violet, aster, dahlia, alstroemeria.
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This is a space for dancing, ink on paper, Katerina Pansera, 11”x15”, 2021
