{"id":27004,"date":"2020-12-15T18:53:14","date_gmt":"2020-12-15T17:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/?p=27004"},"modified":"2021-12-02T08:58:22","modified_gmt":"2021-12-02T07:58:22","slug":"the-endless-hallucinatory-love-of-the-riders-at-the-long-point-of-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/de\/the-endless-hallucinatory-love-of-the-riders-at-the-long-point-of-death\/","title":{"rendered":"The Endless Hallucinatory Love of the Riders at The Long Point of Death"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"project":[451,507,778],"project_type":[725,731],"class_list":["post-27004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","project-web-residencies","project-calls-2020","project-post-doom","project_type-formats","project_type-web-residents"],"acf":{"bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","custom_color_css_variable":"","content_type":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content_txt","acfe_flexible_layout_title":"Text","bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":8,"txt_cols":"is-1-txtcol","txt":"My riders would travel to where they were summoned, and stay with those approaching death and later carry the bodies back to a site where once long ago a \u00bbBody Farm\u00ab existed. Here, scavenging creatures still remember, and that previous form of research has folded into a new kind of knowledge-making that would have been recognized by Melanie Klein or Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick as \u00bbthe reparative.\u00ab In depression, we enter a void to make new tools through repetition in darkness. Doom as production: the riders are endlessly called out.\r\n\r\nThis story fragment is my starting point for a series of diagrammatic digital drawings, each with a parallel speech-audio elements that divines a story these same drawings. Each is an unstable constellation concerned with horror rebuilt as love. Each drawing is repeated\/remade in new versions, and so is the audio. There are repeated attempts at showing\/telling the love\/grief stories, which shift in sympathy to the telling.\r\n\r\nUma Breakdown is a disabled artist\/writer\/researcher working around horror studies, feminist literature, and queer RPGs. This year they finished a PhD about The Evil Dead, care, trans* \u00e9criture f\u00e9minine, disaster, and play. In 2020, they presented a plant horror RPG at Kim?, Riga; a video game about sleeping on the ground next to animals for FACT, Liverpool; and a short story about SSRIs and Artaud for Ma Biblioth\u00e8que. 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The role hidden in the patriarchal, colonial violence of \u00a0\u00bbThe Cowboy,\u00ab a role of love, palliative, and end-of-life care for animals and humans alike (think of Chlo\u00e9 Zhao\u2019s <em>The Rider<\/em> and Valeska Grisebach\u2019s<em> Western<\/em>).<\/span>","intro_preview_img":27005,"post_id_old":"","post_author":null,"post_subtitle":"Uma Breakdown \/ UK","post_preview_img_hide_on_single":false,"post_txt_old":"","post_pdf":null,"post_copyright":"ccl_default","translated_post":false,"translations":null,"post_copyright_individual":"","post_related_posts":[24207,27015,27017],"related_posts_post":[27020]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27004\/revisions"}],"acf:post":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person\/27020"},{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27017"},{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27015"},{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"project","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project?post=27004"},{"taxonomy":"project_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project_type?post=27004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}