Conference
Exhibition 2022

ReCast LIVE ON-AIR (2018) is an audio play that takes the shape of a live broadcast from a fictive radio station. On WPPF (Past Potential Future), people from across 200 years meet to share their experiences and perspectives on gender and non-monogamy. The radio guest characters represent 19th century free love, recent polyamory, and newer relationship anarchy bringing those into conversation with my own future-form, “expanded affinities”. The polytemporal voices assess and debate the egalitarian nature of alternative forms of love, belonging, and attachment, superseding and troubling the compulsion toward hetero-monogamy. One radio guest is a nineteenth century free love commune member who appears in the studio to share the continued relevance of their community’s free love practices; another is a twentieth century essentialist feminist who is unable to let go of the gender binary; others speak from a future where neither gendered subjectivities nor singular forms of relationships exist. The voices are inspired by people like queer theorist Paul Preciado, French novelist Anaïs Nin, and Tirzah Miller who was a member of the nineteenth century non-monogamous group, the Oneida Community.