Sofía Córdova

Everything Must Go

Part of Companion

ISBN 9781928650423

Everything Must Go is a:
1.     Set of instructions
2.     A map
3.     A pile of shit gathered from around and reconstituted here and which might help you re-perform a performance. Specifically the first act to be made in the unchronological performance series GUILLOTINÆ WannaCry.* (Though this book also contains notes for future performance, poems, songs, choreographies, conflicts, etc., in case you wish to incorporate them as you assemble your own thoughts about revolution).

This first 'act to be made', Act Yellow: BreakRoom (2019-2021), is a performance and video work with a sample-based, electronic score set within a color-coded environment of readymades and ceramic objects. You can use whatever music you like and plates or playstation buttons as stand-ins, whatever you have on hand. Real flowers are ideal but fake could work While collectively dancing with historical revolution, each player will (can) obtusely negotiate distinct positions as they move from individualism and toward unity, citing reality TV psychics, revolutionary leaders, Real Housewives, YouTube commenters, and poet-theorists Adrienne Rich and Frantz Fanon among others along the way. This latter exercise is done to summon ambivalence and multivalence into the room so that you may consider them tool and partner in the horizontal, radical imagining needed to seed real revolution when we get to it later.

4.     An absurd proposal that moving absurdly, together is the only way out. Maybe.

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* This Work suggests — though crucially it does not reveal when and where — a time and place in a near future where global uprisings, the destabilization of governance, and a series of climate-related events have scrambled systems worldwide. Yellow engages in conversations with historical revolution, i.e. The Black Panthers, The Sandinistas, the 2019 protests in Puerto Rico and beyond while also looking at smaller acts of revolutions: meetings, gatherings, protests, the labor of organizing

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