OPTION 2022: Fred Moten, Brandon Lopez, Gerald Cleaver

[Applause] thank you foreign but not for me twice staggered looping it's cool too because the density is light phonic Sparkle reversed countdown flesh ropes the body and waits for when three threads out and fans and brushes in duress of employment and possession immersion rupture solitude no matter what you can't breathed forever we look for air pockets an informal Market on the corner the club a chapel made of bottle trees every last breath we want to breed somebody so beautiful and refusing graphic and quartering ourselves and a solid and embrace what nobody but some chords and various anti-states and jingles Blackness is arpeggiation and displacement [Music] Blackness is swimming can't quite let the water go or be harp on the water the Blackness of the whole thing is that our flesh lights up the world the ringing the bubbles particles appear to fade and suspense [Music] what else might happen to us folds us in [Music] not but amniotic whale with whales [Music] we're whales there [Music] we're whales we hate the world we love the word world our whirlpool pianism are pulling our coolant our practice our saturated name [Music] foreign paying close attention to texture but with resistances returned to ambivalence if you tend to them The Cook's resistance to her food is intensified by her presence in the pot she's in the soup but not of it being all fitted all up in it her foot all up in it she's in it the trouble with selflessness is that it appears to be a function of absolute self-absorption and give yourself over to what you endure rubbing slowly through the pillar of that band running down your leg otherwise both people would try to take it up you got to have a theory of it see it from somewhere so it's better to chip away at your point of view with the extreme care of the merely culinary submitting to your own bit of flavor than it is to go ostentatiously hungry this is impromptu t-o-b-a -t-o-b-a-t-b-a to be announced is tough on black asses as in what's in the soup and what the soup is and now it's all the serpentine chitlin circuit is like a trip in an audience with no friends it's not that there are no friends it's that it's not enough for us to be friends no time where did he go everywhere not even after hours I guess I have to capitalize is as there's exception in the ordinary the ordinary exception is all over the Place leotard and the difference where the truth resides between language and meta language is tarsky made for free franchi really sneezed spices a soup of snow or fall the general turbulence or turmeric or your turn to be announced I guess is what I am I guess I want to be announced can't just walk into the room any kind of way but the assignment I ain't doing it I don't like exercises my back hurts my back is Broad and we don't do no world aim me ain't mine now what and I will not do it by myself either not even here I don't want to be a person among other persons I don't like that kind of hovering I can't exceed to the fact that this is my life thank you but this did happen to me and I want to say that somewhere in the General Cinema but your gorgeous welcome can't quite let me have it I wouldn't be doing this if it were for you I'm a means of means by no means I like stuff from it from time to time but not having it makes me work not mad I ain't got it but I can pay something on it foreign [Music] Left to Lose that's just another word for nothing [Music] I'm Frederick the entertainer with my tough black ass I put the owners in parentheses in my endless tour my associations come in Long Black sentences that's one of them long curling balloons over brush I'm not gonna be myself like this with all these people though use I'm playing I won't comply though I do Bend to the hangout if you force me to think about myself I'm gonna refuse in my blue balloon boy give me my blue black cat man I'm going over [Music] that cloud chain you keep trying to put a chain around can't revise this out of what it is my freedom is a substitute you all up on sounding like something clever I'm not trying to be here my friend the first note in the nick of time till it's endless run I guess I'm just not a self-starter come all this way to be here all by myself with you it's just like Claritin or Homestead in the broken history of Carol Gardens it was all just a long history of solitary Studio an autocoasis of self like an autopsy of self except the second line couldn't really join in having aged so constantly on the other hand I'm trapped in asking why am I here I don't like how it shows up like this sending into the atmosphere of what I just said I took that off inside as usual just sending into the atmosphere of what you just said the experiment of critical practice I said I don't like assignments and we're all them self-celebratory at there in the Eddie of my short-term memory abusing themselves until they cook down [Music] thank you [Music] please are not nothing other than my own let me borrow some of you some of you they're told their daily speed on the one hand I Wanna Hold Your Hand on the other hand I Wanna Hold Your other hand on the other hand who is this three-handed and what is he to you who is this anyway I'm just playing one leader I'm disappointed [Music] against the microphone there's a long history of Solitaire on the other hand [Music] miles couldn't really play creaking everything [Music] [Music] [Music] creaking creaking doors through midnight after midnight with his friend till his friend was gone something in the way of Sanctified fatigue something in the science of sound Freddy taught miles how to speak and love though and now they say that people say that I found a way to make you say that you love me this level of intelligent self-consciousness can't seem good if we study for a little while identification ain't the same thing as four-handed plan that long dry ass movie crowded with digital incident in the long history of Studio solitude as if they have to remind you they have to have everything been impure I'm their friend in the air a range of their disappointments and losses I want to say they love me a whole bushel in a pack I'm something loved by them quite violently in delivering me they push me away so that on stage my posture was a slight Fringe twist [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] how can self-absorptions cure be more and better self-absorption [Music] how long can I refuse to be announced [Music] this would be about my own capacity to pretend if I didn't have not have it there's no evidence of me as far as I know other than this writing which is evidently of so much more than me that I continually forget my check stubs as I walk across the park thank you [Music] my pardon is denied Robert P Williams is evidence that this is my computer but pardon denied again ain't even in here just tipping in just tipping it I'm pretty sure it's mine but I can't find that thing I wrote about showing up my kids are in my computer I took so many pictures of them when they were little and now I'm pretty sure that's them and that they're mine which is I'm sure why I took so many pictures I'm just playing who is playing [Applause] but this question of announcement is connected to the double session which I cannot have what's mine which I think maybe my Mama gave me pinned on me like a rose as One Last Love Song what I think I am is envoy's last letter [Music] can you be a message without being announced what's the message effect to be arrayed in the proclamation without being proclaimed not formally to be made known but to have been shouted in the general Carolina I'm not here but Romero and in Glasgow Baraka and the general absence of our non-performance deep in the general Carolina shouted evidence if you want me to play this out for you I don't want to as if the dirt of my impossibility made sweeter your impossible and do I use the pictures in my computer to secure a personhood I don't want and I know I can't I withheld until now not wanting to announce myself and now I guess that's gone just ordinary up in this all but not like you but not for me just like you all but almost is that just mine or is it share that break I mean I know you can all but understand me just like you already knew all that new you said it was all but we who knew that it was all it was all of us almost if I keep talking about this like this I might have some good myself because I share your feelings of anxiety regarding the loss of ain't real I share your distaste for saying the loss don't matter giving it all lives do especially all the ones that don't but it really doesn't matter nothing really matters everyone looks at everyday that way you salute connection between how well you see and how well you represent this looks so hard it all but goes away [Music] my mama cooked herself sick every Christmas which is adorable or actionable [Music] mama I just want you to know I still appreciate it I'm gonna write you a long letter and then I'm coming writing myself out of it's what I'm writing right now imma get through with that and then I'm gonna write you a long letter it's the breathing light and I'm gonna be their visitation on the highway I'ma send it so we can see about you and see what it means to be announced to the general Chicago they said what happened man I said I don't know well we claim that without proclaiming sound it out to the general and executive please pay attention please pay attention son so man you gotta pay attention you got to pay attention man you never been alone in the studio you gotta learn how to pay attention man is it something we can share it's just a story We Tell first it was everything and it was all and then he said watching LeBron is is just so relaxing he said he learned how to learn how to be an experiment in the general gunfire he said he learned how to Plate attention said he'd show me how we share attention so one watch the game tomorrow and see what it's like to be able to say that two say what soul said he saw in that same amazing grammar three always do your homework in school always do your footwork at home always Shout immersion thank you [Music] dude [Music] [Music] Doom Doom [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] for you to find a way to sound and move Don rhymes with Robert Selmer like a plastic fuse to blow out the emperor's Ambiance was shouting in the theological desert of the city you bring with you to galleries an echo of shipping an Avenue Warehouse a river bee Prendergast machine is disciplined against an echo of shopping too much arrangement in the head Susan sound through store-bought power that show of shows is a bill of lading a business pleasure and the auctioneer's nervous run is overtaken by Warren's shadow homeless Ware is walking the Armory is walking away some nervous agent in the air you are a base community apprehend before the sound the cargo the brutalized openings which also surrounded but only for a time that can't be measured in permians it's an imprecision bordering on Invasion to call this context that Rapture a silence shouting composed and listening so we discompose ourselves in one another lose your composure and Repose and rest in dissent in the general murmur a general antagonism of noise the Fugue of the absolutely poor her gift of diving her depressive largesse of lifting in study in series her overlapped happenings of attendance lapsed concentricities submerged ciphers like a bunch of little churches and ballrooms with open doors friends you are the bottom we care about each other so militantly such softness that we exhaust ourselves and then record in the Resonance of our slightly open mouths the sound of that in the absence of the enemy that we keep making a disconnected movement as if preoccupied held already in the beautiful Gathering afternoon carried by one another as one another's play mamas listen to the sound through one another's skin through one another's skin preserve the sound through membrane and water through membrane and water to find our form to find our form and corresponding your body is a mixing board come take a listening walk and admire your hand twisting the listening is in watching how you move to touch and sounding brushing up against your friend to see how his position sounds to make the music we are making by moving the people moving around make sound works out of rustling notice the material that comes up on us that we come upon do something with do something with the sound like it's your friend like you met her at the quadrophenic playground you are a child in a club One Night in San Francisco off the impeccables of frayed nail stud of a live Black Hawk of the more and less than full divided air of a mystical through her divisor there oh Master of Ceremonies miles like a speaker and a whisper with a monster say perform a pit brush somebody hand make a mixing violent rub until your work is gone make a prompt of 4 squared into squares collapse as separates but other than before until work is made to disappear to register its Fields as present in the sound and its sources foreign everybody everybody brush somebody hand till work is going to the ultimate slam how long can you sustain the Foursquare this is how to make little works just walking down the street collaborating with the hand of your brush as shawls Serene the length of her arcade come on everybody [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] I believe [Laughter] [Music] [Music] you want sensory issues curate the sound you know you flap your hands before your eyes in lengthening but come from another country imitate the movement but expel more air say this is your house and run a lap in it but dance with the air immediately around the ones who seem at home [Music] repeat a word or phrase slightly louder up three steps then down like a color Block in a Hoffman damage [Music] for a minute say every letter of every word but slowly pull somebody hand up to your ear [Music] pull somebody hand up to your ear hold somebody hand up to your head [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] I'm just playing just play it uh [Music] hmm [Applause] foreign [Applause] Lopez [Applause] Gerald Cleaver [Applause] foreign [Applause]