s.a. liva

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composer, poet, archivist, intermedia artist, low theorist, tough customer. living on coast salish land with my heart in many places. 🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://tldr.nettime.org/@spit, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Holes are melancholic (Atkins, 2017). We mourn over them. They drown meaning, evoking feelings and
emotions of dread in response to a loss of familiarity, fixity and stability. Holes arouse angsts that are
associated with the Abgrund, the abyss or the fear of an impossible black void. Nevertheless, they are
also things of curiosity, creativity, invention, hope and potentiality. A hole does not only induce anxiety,
it can also offer intimacy and the comfort of protection: for instance, in the symbolism of a womb or a
cave (in this issue Perlin et al., 2019; Hawkins, 2019). Holes are gendered, visceral, atmospheric and
affective (Anderson, 2009). They are affective because they have an ability to provoke a vast series of
bodily and instinctive reactions that can range from shock, fear and solitude to curiosity, wonder and
promise. Holes, rich in diversity, are windows onto light and dark, play and drama, and a myriad of
things in between.

Perhaps all gestures open intervals. Perhaps all gestures are interval crossers as well as interval openers. Opening an interval, a greeting (a mode of gesture) establishes both proximity and distance, opening a space for response or crossing an interval with response, or both. Greeting, writes Avital Ronell, "establishes a relationality."" It is as if a gesture, moving air if nothing else, is not only the hand that articulates movement, but is composed of the spaces between and among us—the spaces through which it moves in or toward relation. Vectors of energy or vectors of possibility, gestures suspend possibility on their way to ricochet or reiteration. Calling out or hailing becomes not only a matter of extension across, movement into, or suspension of an interval, but (re)inaugurates duration and the open possibility of response. Extended out beyond