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Drawing from a video still of Meredith Bove and Barbie Diewald in Untitled Prairie Trilogy this last January at 33 Hawley Street.

KARINNE KEITHLEY SYERS

Untitled Prairie Trilogy
Bodies In Motion, 2020


I was already unemployed this spring, so this extended stay at home season met me where I was, with the addition of my kid, who is 8, and who I now keep company for many more hours of the day than I did before. I started “homeschool” attempting to translate something like a school day schedule to our days together, and gradually gave up on it, tending toward more and more expansively free and lightly unsupervised time in the woods behind our house, more reading, more music. Although I am one of those people who is constantly making something, usually many things, I have always been comfortable yielding to the anti-productive subterranean imperatives of the uncontrollable calendar of when and how things come to fruition. In other years I habitually sought out showing dates to just force the flowers to the surface — I’m aware that glacial subterranean imperative needs a counterbalance in the invitation to surface. But I find this home season wants no calendar, that the only way to meet it is to surrender to an unbounded way of thinking about time. In its absence, I am trying to patiently corral an impulse toward surfacing that isn’t structured by dates, but by some other motor.  
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    I miss the delicate intensity of gathering. I have an active fantasy, for when this is over, of starting a community theater company called Weird Village, and doing a loose adaptation of Cymbeline, after reading Ali Smith’s beautiful, stunning (as all her books are) Winter, in which Cymbeline makes an appearance as a figure of thought. I’ve never read it, and it seems like a crazy play, but my policy is generally to take what comes.

KARINNE KEITHLEY SYERS
Karinne Keithley Syers has made things in performance, audio, video, and book forms. In addition to performing, she has been a publisher, an enthusiast, a scholar, a participant-historian, a posse-forming shit-talker, and a teacher.

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