Performing Resilience for Systemic Pain is a vulnerable book about the quiet presence and hard looking needed to shift systems away from their oppressive, destructive realities.
Meghan Moe Beitiks is an artist working with associations and dissociations of culture/nature/structure. Her work has been published in Performance Philosophy, Performance Research, Journal for Artistic Research, Unlikely Journal for Creative Arts, and World Futures. The last chapter of her project A Lab for Apologies and Forgiveness is a book with Candor Arts. She is currently an Interdisciplinary Studio Art Lecturer at the University of Florida.
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: The Necessity and Danger of Empathy (Moment 1), with Audio Description by Katie Murphy
Chapter 2: Trauma & Theory: (Nebraska), with Audio Description by Emily Smith Beitiks
Chapter 3: Human/Non-human/More-than-human Relationships (New York), with Audio Description by Katie Murphy
Chapter 4: Categories, Stigma and Listening (Installation One), with Audio Description by Emily Smith Beitiks
Chapter 5: Failure that Lives in the Body (Portrait) (aka: Androgynous [Gender] Queer White Wom@x#y!n Looks at Her Actions, Things, Feelings. This chapter is intended for privileged identities.)
Chapter 6: What I Can't See (New York 2), with Audio Description by Katie Murphy
Chapter 7: Surrender (Moment 2), created with Katie Murphy
Chapter 8: Water and Other Obvious Connective Forces (Santa Fe), with Audio Description by Adam Harvey and photos by Jane Phillips
Chapter 9: Systems of Pain/Networks of Resilience (Exhibition)
List of contributors
Index