Photo by Sonya Merutka. [ID: A postcard photograph of a tower dazzling at night with the lights of a cityscape behind it is nailed to the wall. Looped around this nail and encircling the tower is a handmade necklace with colorful plastic beads that reads BABY with a dolphin bead for the A.]
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Subtext is a queer theory reading group that brings together artists, writers, and scholars from across disciplines to read and study together. The group was founded in Berlin in 2015 and is now based in New York City and online. Their running syllabus reflects a multigenerational queer theory by trans poets, authors with various relationships to dis/ability, writers of color, and scholars on the margins of mainstream queer studies. Subtext is organized by artist and scholar Sonya Merutka.
With CPR, Subtext will host a Performance Philosophy Reading Group focused on Six years (and counting) of circlusion by Bini Adamczak and Sophie Lewis (2022).
This text returns to the influential work of German feminist, queer, and communist writer, Bini Adamczak, and her formulation of the term circlusion. Described as the "obverse of penetration" by Sophie Lewis, the original essay's English translator and author of Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation (2022), circlusion offers us a different way of thinking about queer sex, power, and movement. As Lewis writes, "the circlusive subject-position can serve to describe the labor of topping, or it can inspire theorizing from the bottom (bottom theory), or it can confound the top/bottom distinction altogether." In the context of CPR's Performance Philosophy Reading Group, we’ll consider the choreographies of Adamczak's “gulfing,” “circling,” or “gulping” within our own work and situated knowledges of gender, race, and dis/ability.
The reading materials and Zoom link will be sent to those who RSVP ahead of the event.
This program will take place virtually, on Zoom. ASL and audio description services are available upon request by emailing Anna Muselmann, Programs Manager at anna@cprnyc.org at least two weeks prior to the event. Auto-generated captioning will be available through Zoom.