Esther NeffA pledge to self and society at the beginning of PhD candidacy1) A friend reminds me not to forget that there is no reform from within: to stand within the gates/tower/grounds (even online) is to…Aug 25, 2020Aug 25, 2020
Esther NeffinThe Operating System & Liminal LabInstitution is a Verb (Aver!) some editorial rhetoricThis text portends the forthcoming project Institution is a Verb, a compendium of materials archiving, remembering, and discussing 7 years…Jul 9, 2020Jul 9, 2020
Esther NeffQuality means Fitness of Form, Part II(follow up to Part I: https://medium.com/@esthermneff/on-quality-and-politics-of-form-qualified-by-performance-art-c15d8db2b528)Jul 7, 2020Jul 7, 2020
Esther NeffTheatricality, artistic motivation, and the will to save ourselvesHere, at this moment of supreme danger for the will, art approaches as a saving sorceress with the power to heal. Art alone can re-direct…Jun 21, 2020Jun 21, 2020
Esther NeffSECTILITIES: On (1) Bisexuality and (1.5) Synesthesia“Bisexuality,” claims feminist theorist Hélène Cixous, “would do away with the difference experienced as an operation incurring loss, as…Jul 8, 2018Jul 8, 2018
Esther NeffDescriptions: Performance Art 2014–2017 (Part I)Are you public figures?Nov 13, 2017Nov 13, 2017
Esther NeffNOT BUYING (INTO) ITDismantling Whiteness and Patriarchy via Life-(Re)(Trans)Formation StrategiesNov 9, 2017Nov 9, 2017
Esther NeffPerforming Unwhitely/Becoming Imaginary Part I: Theory 07/12/2016“After whiteness is obliterated, at that point, what the people who now identify as white should do is a giant theoretical exercise: what…Nov 9, 2017Nov 9, 2017