Desire

 

Length: 0:49

 

Jackie offers the following commentary, while a black-and-white slow motion video plays of her torso, off center, slightly to the right, turning in circles, dancing:

 

If we take a queer turn here, we do it in order to flesh out how much bodies and objects construct and mediate the flow of desires. Indeed, those bodies and objects come into being and perception as desires, as desirable, as desiring. Many of them demand to be desired. Tracing out the ways they and we create and orient trajectories of desire—caressing attention into being, cajoling feeling into belief and action—continues the work of ideological critique while also opening up potential for disrupting flow, disorienting attentions, and redirecting desires in more pleasurable and sustaining ways.

 

Periodically, some text is emphasized, overlaid in purple type on the video:

 

Bodies and objects construct and mediate the flow of desires

desires

desirable

desiring

demand to be desired

caressing

cajoling

disrupting flow

disorienting attention

redirecting desires