The Creature in The Crack

Simultaneously a rendered phonemic reading and an embodied monstrous utterance, the text gathers a multiplicity of efforts in an attempt to think with the figure of Virago. The hybrid outcome approaches theory, guiding the reader in a form of a fictional script. Virago prefers to be addressed with the personal pronoun it. (It) is a fictional character born from darkness, an impersonation of an utterly collective ‘performer’ that finds (It)s ‘wild tongue’ in a theatrical context of rigid structures. The character nourishes a romanticized relation with the ‘Virtual’, enabling a processual and critical variety of becomings and new ways of being. When (It)s embodied ambiguity and monstrosity are exposed, a feeling of ‘strangeness’ is mobilized into the materialization of a corporeal vulnerability. Through embracing (It)s failures, (It) unsettles other bodies at large. Virago and (It)s tongue choose orality over morality, and keep adapting to new means of radical efficient queer resistance.

Published in Master of Voice by Sternberg Press
(2020)

Previously published in Digressions – Amsterdam Journal of Critical Theory, Cultural Analysis and Critical Writing: Volume 3, Issue 1 and 2