The Observatory, TA Edition: Process Metadocumentation

PROCESS NOTES-EXHIBIT-THE OBSERVATORY - TA EDITION

Nathan finally saw me and it was everything I needed
I don't even care if the exhibit actually gets put on now I just needed his witnessing
I just needed him to listen to my voice note
and tell me that he wanted to hear my story.

It was really important to hold the boundary
about naming the Observatory
but sorry not sorry
we've had a lifetime of well-meaning cis-het white people smiling while they steal things from us

taking our histories and repackaging them and selling them back to us appropriating our stuff and dressing it up as their own
so then later it looks like we're copying from them
bitch please

we've been doing this shit since the stone age
isoceles please
you can shove those squares and oppositions right up your right angles we are the triangles
divine androgyne, mighty hermaphrodite, holy trinity
these are our sacred geometries
no you may NOT use my project name
no my project will NOT be colonized
no my work and art will NOT be homogenized
no I will NOT ask for your permission
no I do NOT need your funding or your sanction
this is a QUEER + TRANS ARCHIVE
PROJECT
DOCUMENTATION
OBSERVATION
LIVING HISTORY

#NOTAMUSEUM

NO YOU MAY NOT HAVE IT
NO YOU MAY NOT BORROW IT
i know you said you'd bring it right back
but you don't have the best track record with that shit it does NOT belong in a museum
it belongs with the people
OK fine
I GUESS YOU CAN REMIX IT
BUT PLEASE
FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS HOLY
JUST GIVE US CREDIT
KTHX

INCLUDE:

eschatology > form vs formless poem
bodies in process - rejected ?
nightworld-dayworld-aya the connector
what's in a name/please don't take mine / thich naht hanh hot for the moon / 8th principle

the machines are ghosting me / the glitch
my parents read my journals, now I want to make everyone look at them do your venus/venus does you
correspodence
es-s

Holly Regan

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